[Ham-Computers] Link for AVG 7.5

[AD5PE]

I run one box with XP and a GB, and Vista on the laptop with 2GB.  It's
amazing how bad a computer performs when it is starved for memory.  The XP
machine is on the network as "Blondie" because it was so "absent-minded"
until I upgraded its RAM.

If you'd like to drool, my desktop at work is dual CPU (both dual-core, so
really 4 processors) and 16GB of RAM.  And this is running XP.  I can hit
the "quick launch" buttons for Outlook, Word, Excel, and Access in rapid
succession and ALL are open before I can get to opening DevStudio.  (Partly
due to the way XP has cached the startups for these apps since I use them
all the time)

Then again, DevStudio STILL takes 30 seconds to open (it's the reason for
all the horsepower).

The point here is you've gone from a fairly light app (v.7.5) to one that is
less light (v.8.0) - if you were on the edge of not having enough memory,
that may have put you over the top.

73,
Jay


-----Original Message-----
From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Brian K. Gaskamp
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 21:24
To: Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or
experimenting
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Link for AVG 7.5

Well Jay mine was running fine up until about say 2 weeks ago and I got a
update and ever since then its went downhill.

I'm running Win XP with 512 meg ram.

I think I read somewhere that to run AVG 8.0 you need at least 1 Gig ram.

Brian


----- Original Message -----
From: "AD5PE" <ad5pe at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or
experimenting'" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 9:16 PM
Subject: RE: [Ham-Computers] Link for AVG 7.5


> They've pulled support for version 7.5 - it's no longer free, and you 
> won't get virus updates any more with it.
>
> On the other hand, I've been running 8.0 on two machines for some time 
> with no noticable performance issues.  What OS are you running and how 
> much memory?
>
> Jay
> AD5PE
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Brian K. 
> Gaskamp
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 19:43
> To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] Link for AVG 7.5
>
> Can someone provide a good link for the old version of AVG before they 
> released 8.0.
> 8.0 has my computer here slowed down to a crawl.
>
> I used to have 7.5 on the old computer here and worked great but ever 
> since I got 8.0, mercy its gotten bad.
>
> Anybody can provide a good link I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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