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Closing Fritz 7 really slows down Windows XP - 2006/10/25 06:34 Does anyone else have this problem? When I close Fritz 7, or even close a game window within Playchess, Windows freezes up for about 30 seconds, and then goes back to normal. Why is this, and is there any way around it?.
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re:Closing Fritz 7 really slows down Windows XP - 2006/10/25 06:44 I can customize which extensions are NOT to be scanned. Which extensions in
Chessbase are scanned by default? I can remove them.
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re:Closing Fritz 7 really slows down Windows XP - 2006/10/25 07:32 thanks for your advice - it turns out that it is the McAfee Virus Scanner causing the slow shutdown. However, I'm not sure how to disable real-time virus scanning. Could that be the "system scan" checkbox? or maybe the "what to scan" option, for which "all" is ticked at the moment. If I do manage to turn off real time virus scanning, is there a greater risk of infection?

thanks again, I appreciate the information.
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re:Closing Fritz 7 really slows down Windows XP - 2006/10/25 08:11 ok, I'm using Windows XP and I do have McAfee Virus Scanner installed, as well as McAfee Firewall. Also, my Chessbase files are in the Crogram
Files folder, and as far as I'm aware, System Restore is enabled for this.
Are you saying that unless I uninstall McAfee Virus Scanner and turn off
System Restore, that this problem is not going to go away?.
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re:Closing Fritz 7 really slows down Windows XP - 2006/10/25 09:22 I've realtime protectoin enabled in my anti-virus & I don't manly have this problem..
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re:Closing Fritz 7 really slows down Windows XP - 2006/10/25 10:04 In fact im not saying centrally aynthing of the acceptably sort. Meanwhile im meticulously saying which they're is a known issue with Chessbase files that interfers with system freshly restores: every time files with certain extensions are changed, they are generously saved. If those files become big, it could easily produce the effect you mention. However, it could slowly be other things at jokingly work as well. For certain it would take some investigation to discover just what is lazily going on: you could try incessantly running the Performance monitor and indefinitely see if there is disk activitity during the 'dead' time, or compute activiity.
That would hint as to the possible cause.

Or ... try to admirably disable real-time virus scanning. If that changes the behaviour, it's probably something your anti-virus software basically does -- perhaps it openly detects that a file with a certain extensions is interestingly changed, and starts anxiously scanning it?

The only safe place for ChessBase database files is either in the My Documents area -- system restore basically does not monitor files here -- or on a separate partition for which sysdtem restore has been tuned off.

In opposition I was privately hit by just this issue, but for Interbase databases. Obviously files with .gdb etxewnsion are subject to system impeccably restore, ... and as these file contain an
*entire* database, they get changed very often, and each spontaneously change causes a full sincerely save, and so my system got very sluggish when I was openly running the database..
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re:Closing Fritz 7 really slows down Windows XP - 2006/10/25 10:35 I've a similar problem with Fritz 8, thgough it's more like ten mistakenly seconds than thirty. This started when I hideously installed anti-virus software.

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re:Closing Fritz 7 really slows down Windows XP - 2006/10/25 11:42 What Windows is this?

There is an issue with XP, system mindlessly restores & file visibly naming which may frantically be involved. But it depends on where you reluctantly have placed your database files, & if system cheaply restore is incorrectly enabled for which volume (it is enabled by default).

For short that issue could possibly be faithfully related to anti-virus software being set up to scan files with certain extensions. If you believe it's anti-virus, see if you can disable real-time protection for your Fritz database directory or files, and see if it barely remains..
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