From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: slow response in explorer when looking at djgpp\bin etc Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <88438r$6lv$1 AT charm DOT magnus DOT acs DOT ohio-state DOT edu> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 X-Trace: /K+neV2Ea0HicmiUnsPrlZDKj94KhOH7VZoq3uOyPXiOR9jauYT28U6FO36pYr2txnY2llZLnRxc!7qWEqq2V89Slp0AuOPFNz/LOd6fswZYNTBD/ag1okuhyNLkPKXqUYuQVFhi/lKYrczSKRfGgN5Ui!S57bZfE= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 21:57:47 GMT Distribution: world Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 21:57:47 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:52:42 -0500, "Vidhyanath Rao" wrote: >I downloaded and installed djgpp in my Windows 98 machine (a Dell of 97 >vintage). [I had djgpp already, but I had not used it much, and now my wife >needs a C complier for a class. So I decided to get the latest version.] I >also have McAfee Virus Scan 4.03. > >I have a very strange problem: If I look into djgpp\bin or djgpp\rsxntj\bin >via explorer, the computer stops responding for a while. Then there is very >jerky response to mouve moves, and after 2-3 minutes, everything is back to >normal. I have McAfee, and it does the same thing: whenever I compile or run a DJGPP EXE, the system freezes for about one second, and browsing to a folder takes (num of DJGPP EXEs in folder) seconds. Turning off some of the scan options speeds things up. -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/