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)

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.



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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

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

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)

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)

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
___---

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
___---

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 it´s
settings- when all you do is zipping several files on your pc to a
zipfile? Don´t 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.

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 it´s
settings- when all you do is zipping several files on your pc to a
zipfile? Don´t 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.