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glee wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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(Can't they be "told" it's a single-core processor they're running
on?) [Avira seems OK here.]
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Avira is the only AV that I can get to run on really old XP systems
with 512MB RAM or less and an older processor, without it bogging
down the entire system.

How do you mean, "tell" the program it's on a single core?

I monitor all of my processes all of the time for CPU usage. And Avast 7
will run on anything from Windows 2000 and up. And AnVir Task Manager
says in the last hour, Avast hit 17% for a second and the rest of the
hour it was under 1%. As far as the average user is concern, they
couldn't even tell it was actually running.

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Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP3