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WinZip 8.0 running v. slowly
I last installed Win98SE a little over three years ago, and a
number of niggles have developed. I'm still putting off that evil day when I have to completely reinstall Win98SE and start to dual-boot with Ubuntu Linux, which will probably be my next main OS. Meanwhile, it would help quite a lot if there were a quick fix for one particular niggle. When I'm using WinZip 8.0 to add a lot of files to a *.zip archive, this routine operation, which used to be over in a few minutes or even seconds, now runs at a snail's pace, sometimes only adding one or two files a second, and taking hours to complete (unless I reboot and start again, which helps a little, but not much). This is making it terribly annoying to make backups of all my files, which I need to do before [re]installing everything. Any ideas? (My only thought is that avast! might have something to do with it. One of the many niggles is that I stopped being able to do antivirus updates many months ago because I suffered from that out-of-memory problem mentioned by someone in another thread recently.) -- Angus Rodgers (formerly, ; alas, Bigfoot has gone tits-up) |
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Angus Rodgers wrote in
: SNIP Aside from basics like the fact that I have never seen ANY Windows machine to run trouble-free and perfectly smoothly (yes, it IS possible after you tweak the **** out of one) without restoring the C: OS image at least once or twice a year, defragging, accumulation of garbage, etc, I would say the most probable thing is that you have the AV program set up to run all the time. This it totally unnecessary, and ESPECIALLY troublesome when doing things like compressing or uncompressing or just copying large files. The AV program has to check EVERY file (unless you specify exceptions which is a PITA or just TURN IT OFF which is what I recommend) before it allows the OS/utility to proceed. I ONLY EVER run my AV on demand to scan whatever I have DL'd after I get offline, and I have NEVER gotten a virus. Of course, I use a variety of other precautions (see last sentence). Running the AV program ALL the time is totally pointless. A firewall is another thing, although there are still things that can happen which neither the firewall nor an AV program running all the time (and scanning every single file on every single web page before it allows your OS to display it) can prevent. Another subject. -- The Onion: Is there a God? Winona Ryder: Is there a God? The Onion: Yes, does God exist? Winona Ryder: Um, I don't know. I really don't know. I hate to be so boring, but I don't know. |
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On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:54:21 +0000 (UTC), thanatoid
wrote: [...] I would say the most probable thing is that you have the AV program set up to run all the time. This it totally unnecessary, and ESPECIALLY troublesome when doing things like compressing or uncompressing or just copying large files. The AV program has to check EVERY file (unless you specify exceptions which is a PITA or just TURN IT OFF which is what I recommend) before it allows the OS/utility to proceed. [...] That's why I mentioned avast!, but (a) it never used to cause such a drastic slowdown (which is why I mentioned the failed update, in case that might be what made the difference), and (b) when I select Stop On-Access Protection (the first thing I tried when the slowdown started), it makes no difference. -- Angus Rodgers |
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On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:54:21 +0000 (UTC), thanatoid
wrote: [...] I would say the most probable thing is that you have the AV program set up to run all the time. This it totally unnecessary, and ESPECIALLY troublesome when doing things like compressing or uncompressing or just copying large files. The AV program has to check EVERY file (unless you specify exceptions which is a PITA or just TURN IT OFF which is what I recommend) before it allows the OS/utility to proceed. [...] That's why I mentioned avast!, but (a) it never used to cause such a drastic slowdown (which is why I mentioned the failed update, in case that might be what made the difference), and (b) when I select Stop On-Access Protection (the first thing I tried when the slowdown started), it makes no difference. -- Angus Rodgers |
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I put a Ubuntu Linux (Debian GNU/Linux ) on a Old x86 Compaq Presario 5070,
That Compaq have a SiS Corporation, SiS530 Video Drivers and there no Ubuntu (Debian GNU/Linux ) SiS530 Video Drivers made for it. So Angus Rodgers Look for all the Dives for Ubuntu first before installing Ubuntu on a PC! And Ubuntu is a (Debian GNU/Linux ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system) MEB Hmm LOOL now I have to format that Hard Drive and I believe I'll go with The FreeBSD Project , That I can run some Microsoft Software on it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD Angus Rodgers a good Linux is Xandros you can put Microsoft Software on it! Like IE6, IE7, IE8 or Microsoft Office, Win95, 98, xp Software on it,! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xandros But it is License GNU GPL with some proprietary software http://www.xandros.com/products/desktop/license.html But like Ubuntu, Xandros is Debian-based Too! So you need to look for all the Drive first before installing it! Angus Rodgers More Linux to look at:::: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE http://www.redhat.com/ http://www.slackware.com/ http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/ Yellow Dog Linux was first released in the spring of 1999 for the Apple Macintosh PowerPC computers. http://www.opensuse.org/en/ http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compatibility/software/ http://www.knoppix.com/ http://www.gentoo.org/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux Drawbacks and criticisms http://www.fedora.redhat.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Linux for 360 "Angus Rodgers" wrote in message ... I last installed Win98SE a little over three years ago, and a number of niggles have developed. I'm still putting off that evil day when I have to completely reinstall Win98SE and start to dual-boot with Ubuntu Linux, which will probably be my next main OS. Meanwhile, it would help quite a lot if there were a quick fix for one particular niggle. When I'm using WinZip 8.0 to add a lot of files to a *.zip archive, this routine operation, which used to be over in a few minutes or even seconds, now runs at a snail's pace, sometimes only adding one or two files a second, and taking hours to complete (unless I reboot and start again, which helps a little, but not much). This is making it terribly annoying to make backups of all my files, which I need to do before [re]installing everything. Any ideas? (My only thought is that avast! might have something to do with it. One of the many niggles is that I stopped being able to do antivirus updates many months ago because I suffered from that out-of-memory problem mentioned by someone in another thread recently.) -- Angus Rodgers (formerly, ; alas, Bigfoot has gone tits-up) |
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WinZip 8.0 running v. slowly
I put a Ubuntu Linux (Debian GNU/Linux ) on a Old x86 Compaq Presario 5070,
That Compaq have a SiS Corporation, SiS530 Video Drivers and there no Ubuntu (Debian GNU/Linux ) SiS530 Video Drivers made for it. So Angus Rodgers Look for all the Dives for Ubuntu first before installing Ubuntu on a PC! And Ubuntu is a (Debian GNU/Linux ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system) MEB Hmm LOOL now I have to format that Hard Drive and I believe I'll go with The FreeBSD Project , That I can run some Microsoft Software on it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD Angus Rodgers a good Linux is Xandros you can put Microsoft Software on it! Like IE6, IE7, IE8 or Microsoft Office, Win95, 98, xp Software on it,! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xandros But it is License GNU GPL with some proprietary software http://www.xandros.com/products/desktop/license.html But like Ubuntu, Xandros is Debian-based Too! So you need to look for all the Drive first before installing it! Angus Rodgers More Linux to look at:::: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE http://www.redhat.com/ http://www.slackware.com/ http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/ Yellow Dog Linux was first released in the spring of 1999 for the Apple Macintosh PowerPC computers. http://www.opensuse.org/en/ http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compatibility/software/ http://www.knoppix.com/ http://www.gentoo.org/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux Drawbacks and criticisms http://www.fedora.redhat.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Linux for 360 "Angus Rodgers" wrote in message ... I last installed Win98SE a little over three years ago, and a number of niggles have developed. I'm still putting off that evil day when I have to completely reinstall Win98SE and start to dual-boot with Ubuntu Linux, which will probably be my next main OS. Meanwhile, it would help quite a lot if there were a quick fix for one particular niggle. When I'm using WinZip 8.0 to add a lot of files to a *.zip archive, this routine operation, which used to be over in a few minutes or even seconds, now runs at a snail's pace, sometimes only adding one or two files a second, and taking hours to complete (unless I reboot and start again, which helps a little, but not much). This is making it terribly annoying to make backups of all my files, which I need to do before [re]installing everything. Any ideas? (My only thought is that avast! might have something to do with it. One of the many niggles is that I stopped being able to do antivirus updates many months ago because I suffered from that out-of-memory problem mentioned by someone in another thread recently.) -- Angus Rodgers (formerly, ; alas, Bigfoot has gone tits-up) |
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WinZip 8.0 running v. slowly
On 02/22/2010 05:44 AM, Hot-text wrote:
I put a Ubuntu Linux (Debian GNU/Linux ) on a Old x86 Compaq Presario 5070, That Compaq have a SiS Corporation, SiS530 Video Drivers and there no Ubuntu (Debian GNU/Linux ) SiS530 Video Drivers made for it. So Angus Rodgers Look for all the Dives for Ubuntu first before installing Ubuntu on a PC! And Ubuntu is a (Debian GNU/Linux ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system) MEB Hmm LOOL now I have to format that Hard Drive and I believe I'll go with The FreeBSD Project , That I can run some Microsoft Software on it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD Angus Rodgers a good Linux is Xandros you can put Microsoft Software on it! Like IE6, IE7, IE8 or Microsoft Office, Win95, 98, xp Software on it,! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xandros But it is License GNU GPL with some proprietary software http://www.xandros.com/products/desktop/license.html But like Ubuntu, Xandros is Debian-based Too! So you need to look for all the Drive first before installing it! Angus Rodgers More Linux to look at:::: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE http://www.redhat.com/ http://www.slackware.com/ http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/ Yellow Dog Linux was first released in the spring of 1999 for the Apple Macintosh PowerPC computers. http://www.opensuse.org/en/ http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compatibility/software/ http://www.knoppix.com/ http://www.gentoo.org/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux Drawbacks and criticisms http://www.fedora.redhat.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Linux for 360 Just one comment per the being able to run Windows applications in Linux [be it via Wine, VM, or otherwise] or other non-MS OSs: Remember that installing these Windows apps into a Linux or otherwise brings with them the vulnerabilities and exploits those carry. Though native Linux compilation vulnerabilities revolve more around local user issues [same for MAC], you bring the remote/Internet vulnerabilities INTO Linux compilations if you use the Windows apps for such access or, at times, when a malicious system probe discovers them via some browser/site connection, or when used within a mixed network. Be cautious and sensible when adding MS applications into these non-MS systems. Make sure you *lock* MS applications down. And why the heck would you install an MS IE/browser into a non-MS OS? That's not very smart. And the *first* "*nux/*nix" for the PC was one you compiled yourself, not one of the pre-made compilations. Something you can STILL do if you want; "roll your own". ___ ** ANGUS: Find out what is presently running within the system using one of the autorun tools, MSConfig, and other methods and tools which you have seen the group mention here before. Do we need to run through some of that again? We should ask if you have done any tweaks or system/browser updating since EOL, and whether you have a standard system? And what IE version is installed? --- As for Ubuntu SiS drivers: http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsispart1.shtml OR, you need to remember "drivers" aren't really the issue in a Linux compilation as you are dealing with generic kernel support and Xwindows INTO which you install OR manually enter the requirements/support. Depending upon what you chose as the GUI it may have just needed a tweak from you. So you could have tried manually adding the entries into xorg.conf. Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" Driver "sis" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" VideoRam 128000 Option "UseFBDev" "true" EndSection and in lower sections: Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Generic Video Card" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "680x420" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "680x420" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "680x420" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "680x420" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "680x420" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "680x420" EndSubSection EndSection _____ Of course if you expect full 3D or OpenGL or other support, then the adapter AND monitor codes/"drivers" [which basically just define chip specific coding support] should be installed. But this is WAY off topic for this forum... "Angus Rodgers" wrote in message ... I last installed Win98SE a little over three years ago, and a number of niggles have developed. I'm still putting off that evil day when I have to completely reinstall Win98SE and start to dual-boot with Ubuntu Linux, which will probably be my next main OS. Meanwhile, it would help quite a lot if there were a quick fix for one particular niggle. When I'm using WinZip 8.0 to add a lot of files to a *.zip archive, this routine operation, which used to be over in a few minutes or even seconds, now runs at a snail's pace, sometimes only adding one or two files a second, and taking hours to complete (unless I reboot and start again, which helps a little, but not much). This is making it terribly annoying to make backups of all my files, which I need to do before [re]installing everything. Any ideas? (My only thought is that avast! might have something to do with it. One of the many niggles is that I stopped being able to do antivirus updates many months ago because I suffered from that out-of-memory problem mentioned by someone in another thread recently.) -- Angus Rodgers (formerly, ; alas, Bigfoot has gone tits-up) -- MEB http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm Windows Info, Diagnostics, Security, Networking http://peoplescounsel.org The "real world" of Law, Justice, and Government ___--- |
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On 02/22/2010 05:44 AM, Hot-text wrote:
I put a Ubuntu Linux (Debian GNU/Linux ) on a Old x86 Compaq Presario 5070, That Compaq have a SiS Corporation, SiS530 Video Drivers and there no Ubuntu (Debian GNU/Linux ) SiS530 Video Drivers made for it. So Angus Rodgers Look for all the Dives for Ubuntu first before installing Ubuntu on a PC! And Ubuntu is a (Debian GNU/Linux ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system) MEB Hmm LOOL now I have to format that Hard Drive and I believe I'll go with The FreeBSD Project , That I can run some Microsoft Software on it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD Angus Rodgers a good Linux is Xandros you can put Microsoft Software on it! Like IE6, IE7, IE8 or Microsoft Office, Win95, 98, xp Software on it,! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xandros But it is License GNU GPL with some proprietary software http://www.xandros.com/products/desktop/license.html But like Ubuntu, Xandros is Debian-based Too! So you need to look for all the Drive first before installing it! Angus Rodgers More Linux to look at:::: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE http://www.redhat.com/ http://www.slackware.com/ http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/ Yellow Dog Linux was first released in the spring of 1999 for the Apple Macintosh PowerPC computers. http://www.opensuse.org/en/ http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compatibility/software/ http://www.knoppix.com/ http://www.gentoo.org/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux Drawbacks and criticisms http://www.fedora.redhat.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Linux for 360 Just one comment per the being able to run Windows applications in Linux [be it via Wine, VM, or otherwise] or other non-MS OSs: Remember that installing these Windows apps into a Linux or otherwise brings with them the vulnerabilities and exploits those carry. Though native Linux compilation vulnerabilities revolve more around local user issues [same for MAC], you bring the remote/Internet vulnerabilities INTO Linux compilations if you use the Windows apps for such access or, at times, when a malicious system probe discovers them via some browser/site connection, or when used within a mixed network. Be cautious and sensible when adding MS applications into these non-MS systems. Make sure you *lock* MS applications down. And why the heck would you install an MS IE/browser into a non-MS OS? That's not very smart. And the *first* "*nux/*nix" for the PC was one you compiled yourself, not one of the pre-made compilations. Something you can STILL do if you want; "roll your own". ___ ** ANGUS: Find out what is presently running within the system using one of the autorun tools, MSConfig, and other methods and tools which you have seen the group mention here before. Do we need to run through some of that again? We should ask if you have done any tweaks or system/browser updating since EOL, and whether you have a standard system? And what IE version is installed? --- As for Ubuntu SiS drivers: http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsispart1.shtml OR, you need to remember "drivers" aren't really the issue in a Linux compilation as you are dealing with generic kernel support and Xwindows INTO which you install OR manually enter the requirements/support. Depending upon what you chose as the GUI it may have just needed a tweak from you. So you could have tried manually adding the entries into xorg.conf. Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" Driver "sis" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" VideoRam 128000 Option "UseFBDev" "true" EndSection and in lower sections: Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Generic Video Card" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "680x420" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "680x420" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "680x420" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "680x420" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "680x420" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "680x420" EndSubSection EndSection _____ Of course if you expect full 3D or OpenGL or other support, then the adapter AND monitor codes/"drivers" [which basically just define chip specific coding support] should be installed. But this is WAY off topic for this forum... "Angus Rodgers" wrote in message ... I last installed Win98SE a little over three years ago, and a number of niggles have developed. I'm still putting off that evil day when I have to completely reinstall Win98SE and start to dual-boot with Ubuntu Linux, which will probably be my next main OS. Meanwhile, it would help quite a lot if there were a quick fix for one particular niggle. When I'm using WinZip 8.0 to add a lot of files to a *.zip archive, this routine operation, which used to be over in a few minutes or even seconds, now runs at a snail's pace, sometimes only adding one or two files a second, and taking hours to complete (unless I reboot and start again, which helps a little, but not much). This is making it terribly annoying to make backups of all my files, which I need to do before [re]installing everything. Any ideas? (My only thought is that avast! might have something to do with it. One of the many niggles is that I stopped being able to do antivirus updates many months ago because I suffered from that out-of-memory problem mentioned by someone in another thread recently.) -- Angus Rodgers (formerly, ; alas, Bigfoot has gone tits-up) -- MEB http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm Windows Info, Diagnostics, Security, Networking http://peoplescounsel.org The "real world" of Law, Justice, and Government ___--- |
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Angus Rodgers schrieb:
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:54:21 +0000 (UTC), thanatoid wrote: [...] I would say the most probable thing is that you have the AV program set up to run all the time. This it totally unnecessary, and ESPECIALLY troublesome when doing things like compressing or uncompressing or just copying large files. The AV program has to check EVERY file (unless you specify exceptions which is a PITA or just TURN IT OFF which is what I recommend) before it allows the OS/utility to proceed. [...] That's why I mentioned avast!, but (a) it never used to cause such a drastic slowdown (which is why I mentioned the failed update, in case that might be what made the difference), and (b) when I select Stop On-Access Protection (the first thing I tried when the slowdown started), it makes no difference. Why do you have an antivirus program running at all -regardless of itīs settings- when all you do is zipping several files on your pc to a zipfile? Donīt you trust your own local files? Or do you have a running internet connection even while running the antivirusprogram and while zipping a huge number of files? In the latter case I could understand that zipping slows down to a crawl as those programs slow down the PC and occupy part of the available memory. Did you perhaps at some point change the level of compression in the program? Using PeaZip on my PC the amount of time varies greatly depending on level of compression chosen for the compressed file. |
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Angus Rodgers schrieb:
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:54:21 +0000 (UTC), thanatoid wrote: [...] I would say the most probable thing is that you have the AV program set up to run all the time. This it totally unnecessary, and ESPECIALLY troublesome when doing things like compressing or uncompressing or just copying large files. The AV program has to check EVERY file (unless you specify exceptions which is a PITA or just TURN IT OFF which is what I recommend) before it allows the OS/utility to proceed. [...] That's why I mentioned avast!, but (a) it never used to cause such a drastic slowdown (which is why I mentioned the failed update, in case that might be what made the difference), and (b) when I select Stop On-Access Protection (the first thing I tried when the slowdown started), it makes no difference. Why do you have an antivirus program running at all -regardless of itīs settings- when all you do is zipping several files on your pc to a zipfile? Donīt you trust your own local files? Or do you have a running internet connection even while running the antivirusprogram and while zipping a huge number of files? In the latter case I could understand that zipping slows down to a crawl as those programs slow down the PC and occupy part of the available memory. Did you perhaps at some point change the level of compression in the program? Using PeaZip on my PC the amount of time varies greatly depending on level of compression chosen for the compressed file. |
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