Pause scan inoperative

[MilesCh]

MWB 1.41 on WinXP SP2 and when running a quick scan the button "pause" does not work, and don't believe it did on a few prior versions. If related, the mouse is very slow/difficult to move when MWB is scanning.

[exile360]

Greetings MilesCh

It's possible that it isn't working because of the amount of CPU that is being used by MBAM is scanning. If I may ask, what are your system specs (ie processor, amount of ram etc)?

[MilesCh]

Greetings MilesCh

It's possible that it isn't working because of the amount of CPU that is being used by MBAM is scanning. If I may ask, what are your system specs (ie processor, amount of ram etc)?

Believe your guessed it. It's a 6-year old computer with 533Mhz & 1gb rambus. WinXP, SP2, and I can remove some services to gain back a fair amount of ram.

Also I had to go into AVG main panel and deactivate several of it's features -- removing from the taskbar doesn't do it by itself. And this was done prior to running MWB one more time and it was a bit more functional --in fact once the "pause" button was not greyed out and clicked on it and it went into pause and resume.

A brief scan takes 1-1/2 hours to scan 115,000 objects -- is that far too long?

[exile360]

That sounds like your issue. The Quick Scan on most systems is much quicker than that, but it may well simply be that your system is pretty dated. Also take a look at the pinned topic here regarding AVG to see if it helps things at all.

Please let me know how it goes.

Thanks