On 14/03/2020 08:24, alan_m wrote:
On 13/03/2020 13:49, John wrote:
On Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 10:49:51 PM UTC, wrote:
On Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:37:15 UTC, Brian Gaff (Sofa)Â* wrote:
Not malware exactly more demoware when you buy them these days.

that is malware

The first
thing any new user should do is strip it back to the core stuff, then
install what they want.

It is, however very wasteful, modern ways of creating software, with
huge
runtimes, loads of graphics and lots ofÂ* redundant routines in from
different programming environments that folk use to make their
software. Its
no wonder that much of it is only partly accessible.
Â* Brian

Use msconfig to prevent apps starting up at boot time. It's an insane
practice to run all apps all the time. A SSD rather than HDD can make
a huge difference - just keep the hdd for user data. Restart firefox
etc frequently, it's a huge ram hog.


NT

I see dual core processor laptops that are very fast when new,
deteriorate to a snails pace in just loading up. The malware runs
under Windows which is not yet loaded, yet the laptops still runs slow
on bootup.

How do you get rid of malware? There are all sorts of companies saying
they can transform a laptop by just buying their product. There is one
that has Linux on a USB bypassing the problematic Windows operating
system, that seems to work.

Most people want browsing, email and the odd word processing, I
suppose Linux is good enough and gives a performing computer with
malware which is targeted at Windows users.Â* Does Linux have Word
compatible word processors?



Often computer speed is reduced if you have more than one real time
virus/malware checker running at the same time. For instance the win10
inbuilt checker may be running as well as Mcafee/Norton installed as a
package by the computer manufacturer/retailer.

IME the Win10 AV software is quite good at stepping out of the way if
you have other software installed.

With two programs now checking the disk in real time every time a file
is downloaded and/or written the processing of other data is likely to
get slower the more files you have, which may be orders of magnitude
more than when you purchased the machine.

That doe snot really make sense. The quantity of files will have no real
impact on the preprocessing overhead of "on access" scanning. Something
that by definition only happens when a file is accesses.

Lots of files will mean that a schedules background scan will take
longer. However background scans are designed to run at lower priority
and consume minimal resources, and not compete with full screen
applications (e.g. games)

Many programs that are installed on Windows seem to want to be started
on boot-up when there is no real need to do so. They may want to phone
home every time the computer is booted to inform you that there ois an
update.Â* Removing such requests from start-up may/will speed up the boot
time. On the same subject the disabling of automatic checks for updates
and an automatic install may also speed up a machine.

Although if you are going to disable automatic checks, make sure that
you have an effective patching routine to ensure you are not running
applications with known critical vulnerabilities for extended periods of
time.



--
Cheers,

John.

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