Scan disk-Ad-aware Question
#1
03-18-04, 10:57 AM
Scan disk-Ad-aware Question
O.K. here Is my question..I always run the quick version
of scandisk and ad-aware because It takes too long to do the complete version all the time of these programs.Are the short faster versions just as effective or am I missing out on
something here by not running complete versions as often?
of scandisk and ad-aware because It takes too long to do the complete version all the time of these programs.Are the short faster versions just as effective or am I missing out on
something here by not running complete versions as often?
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03-18-04, 11:26 AM
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As far as scandisk, the only thing that would make scandisk take an incredibly long time is if you do a "surface scan". That can take half past forever. Surface scans are completely unnecessary unless you think you might have a HDD problem that you want to find out about. My advice is to NOT run a surface scan unless you think there's reason to, otherwise the regular scandisk will suffice.
As far as Adaware is concerned, what scan are you running? The complete Adaware scan really shouldn't take too long at all...
Chris
As far as Adaware is concerned, what scan are you running? The complete Adaware scan really shouldn't take too long at all...
Chris
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03-18-04, 02:37 PM
Some of what you see from the Adaware scan is cookie tracking. I think if you hover the cursor over the subject, it will tell you what it is. You should do the deep scan. It only takes a little longer. Also download and run Spybot. Between Adaware and Spybot, you should find any spyware on your pc.
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03-25-04, 07:34 PM
If you don't run a full scan with Ad-Aware, then it's not doing much for you, a minute is barely enough time to scan maybe 1/4 of the registry. Set the scan options as thorough as you can and let it do a full scan, you might be surprised what it finds.
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03-26-04, 07:18 AM
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Just to let you know... When I do run Adaware, I run a full system scan. I have 480GB (yes, 480) of HDD space to test. It fully scans everything in under 3 minutes. No reason for you to run anything else but a FULL system scan. It won't take too long, and it's worth it.
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Just to let you know... When I do run Adaware, I run a full system scan. I have 480GB (yes, 480) of HDD space to test. It fully scans everything in under 3 minutes. No reason for you to run anything else but a FULL system scan. It won't take too long, and it's worth it.
Chris
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Well, XP is a faster OS, but more importantly is that I'll bet the XP OS is on a faster, more powerful machine...
Chris
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