Morning Mark,
We will look into that program today. In addition, it *seems* that there are
*wide* variations in load times with McAfee running. The IT guys think it
might be related to "network traffic." I have Template and Content files,
plus some personal code files on a network drive which are involved in the
startup sequence. The times can vary from 10-30 seconds. The biggest
offenders seem to be the AecArchXM and AecSchedule programs. Do they do
things radically differently than the other arx and dbx code?
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Regards,
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Reid M. Addis
Architectural Applications Specialist
Granary Associates
411 North 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Ph. 215-665-7056
email: addis@granaryassoc.com
"Mark Taylor [Autodesk Support]" wrote in
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> Reid M. Addis wrote:
> > I know I've been here before, but here goes again.
> > First of all, we are running the latest, 4.5 release of VirusScan.
> > Second, on a 1 ghz station, 256mb ram, Win 98 OS, with VirusScan
disabled,
> > ADT + all my other stuff loads in 15 seconds +-.
> > Third, even excluding *.dbx, *.arx, Aec*.*, *.lsp, C:\Program
Files\Autodesk
> > Architectural Desktop 3\*.*, and C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk
> > Shared\*.*, ADT takes between 45 seconds to a 1 1/2 minutes to load. The
> > killers seem to be AecArchXM and AecSchedule.
> > Fourth, during initialization, the command area remains blank for about
10
> > to 15 seconds before it begins loading ARX and DBX programs. What is
> > happening during this period?
> > Fifth and finally: does anyone know how or what else I can exclude to
get
> > better start up performance from ADT. While one 45 second start up per
day
> > would be acceptable, we all know that ADT crashes multiple times each
day. A
> > 15 second wait to restart is acceptable. 1 1/2 minutes is not.
>
> Hi Reid,
>
> Unfortunately we do not have McAfee here to test, so I cannot check if I
get comparable performance
> issues when starting ADT (and whether excluding helps to any degree).
>
> The FILEMON utility (available from http://www.sysinternals.com) might
help diagnose whether McAfee
> is still accessing these files even though they are excluded from a check,
or may give some other
> clues as to what is going on. Am I right in thinking that when McAfee is
disabled the start-up time
> is 15 seconds? We have noted that with some virus checkers that when
disabled some aspects are
> *still* functioning, so the only way to be sure in certain situations is
to uninstall them.
>
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> Mark Taylor
> Product Support, EMEA
> WW Support & Services, Autodesk
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