Adaware Service and Memory Usage

I'm running Vista Home Premium with only 1 gig ram. The system was running
slow so while checking memory usage found the service using 150 meg so I'm
running the service manually for now. I'm still not clear on it's purpose
when I'm not actually running the program. Its listed in services under
Lavasoft aawservice.exe.

Patrick C wrote:
> I'm running Vista Home Premium with only 1 gig ram. The system was
> running slow so while checking memory usage found the service using 150
> meg so I'm running the service manually for now. I'm still not clear on
> it's purpose when I'm not actually running the program. Its listed in
> services under Lavasoft aawservice.exe.

That's the reason I uninstalled AdAware. It never found anything so why
have the Pro version's .exe running and sucking up resources?

Alias

I had a similar problem with Spybot and uninstalled it. Wanted to have
something besides Window Defender as Adaware still seems to find things.

Patrick C wrote:
> I had a similar problem with Spybot and uninstalled it. Wanted to have
> something besides Window Defender as Adaware still seems to find things.

I don't have that problem with Spybot but I don't use Tea Timer. You
might want to check out spywareblaster and spywareguard. What does
AdAware find, cookies?

Alias

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:12:38 -0600, "Patrick C" <>
wrote:

>I'm running Vista Home Premium with only 1 gig ram. The system was running
>slow so while checking memory usage found the service using 150 meg so I'm
>running the service manually for now. I'm still not clear on it's purpose
>when I'm not actually running the program. Its listed in services under
>Lavasoft aawservice.exe.

If you upgraded to Vista , you need more RAM .

I tried to disable Tea Timer but had some issue with it maybe I should
revisit it. I do run Spywareblaster. Yes it does find cookies threst level
3 and some minor things.

"Alias" <> wrote in message
news:giiro0$ak9$...
> Patrick C wrote:
>> I had a similar problem with Spybot and uninstalled it. Wanted to have
>> something besides Window Defender as Adaware still seems to find things.
>
> I don't have that problem with Spybot but I don't use Tea Timer. You might
> want to check out spywareblaster and spywareguard. What does AdAware find,
> cookies?
>
> Alias

I just ordered more ram last week.

"Jim" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:12:38 -0600, "Patrick C" <>
> wrote:
>
>>I'm running Vista Home Premium with only 1 gig ram. The system was running
>>slow so while checking memory usage found the service using 150 meg so I'm
>>running the service manually for now. I'm still not clear on it's purpose
>>when I'm not actually running the program. Its listed in services under
>>Lavasoft aawservice.exe.
>
> If you upgraded to Vista , you need more RAM .

As an extra bit of security for a manual scan try:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

Malwarebytes is as the name says, a Malware Remover!
For the Free version scroll down their page to either download from
Download.com, or Major Geeks.com

--
Mad Mike


"Patrick C" wrote:

> I just ordered more ram last week.
>
> "Jim" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:12:38 -0600, "Patrick C" <>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>I'm running Vista Home Premium with only 1 gig ram. The system was running
> >>slow so while checking memory usage found the service using 150 meg so I'm
> >>running the service manually for now. I'm still not clear on it's purpose
> >>when I'm not actually running the program. Its listed in services under
> >>Lavasoft aawservice.exe.
> >
> > If you upgraded to Vista , you need more RAM .
>
>

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:12:38 -0600, "Patrick C" <>
wrote:

> I'm running Vista Home Premium with only 1 gig ram. The system was running
> slow so while checking memory usage found the service using 150 meg so I'm
> running the service manually for now. I'm still not clear on it's purpose
> when I'm not actually running the program. Its listed in services under
> Lavasoft aawservice.exe.


If I were in your shoes, rather than worrying about Adaware, I'd worry
about having so little RAM, since that's the reason your system is so
slow. How much RAM you need for decent performance depends in part on
what apps you run, but everyone doing more than just playing Solitaire
needs at least 2GB.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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"Ken Blake, MVP" <> wrote in message
news:...
> If I were in your shoes, rather than worrying about Adaware, I'd worry
> about having so little RAM, since that's the reason your system is so
> slow. How much RAM you need for decent performance depends in part on
> what apps you run, but everyone doing more than just playing Solitaire
> needs at least 2GB.
>

I'm in the process of getting more Ram. Was gonna go for 4 gigs but the
specs save 2 max so guess I'll go for 2.