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WSA high cpu usage when hovering mouse over the interface

  • September 2, 2014
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Fresh Face
hi,
i've got an old computer (athlon xp 1900+ with 1mb ram; os: XP SP3) and when i open the main window of WSA and move the mouse over a menu item, it becomes really sluggish and stuttering as the WSA cpu usage goes up very high.

i've contacted the support and get the following answer:
"After analyzing the automatically attached logs, we have white-listed the unknown processes which SecureAnywhere had been monitoring on your system.
We ask that you run a new scan of your computer now (click "Scan My Computer" in the Overview window of SecureAnywhere). Please let us know if the same issue persists after this scan."

so i did the scan again, but unfortunately the problem remained: every WSA window (ie. settings) causes cpu peaks and mouse stuttering. i wrote that to the support 2 days ago but didn't received any answer yet.
 
any idea how to resolve this problem?

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    Rakanisheu Retired
    That CPU is 13 years old! (I had one myself it was a great processor,still have it at home in fact). I will see if I can find your ticket and check the scan logs. However your PC is very very old and it just may be a case of insufficient CPU horsepower. That said WSA is very lightweight and I havent really seen it cause an issue even on older PC's.
     
    Have you been running any other AV programs on that PC? 
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    Fresh Face
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    • Fresh Face
    • September 2, 2014
    ok, some additional info: i've tried AVG and Avast free before WSA, and i have Privatefirewall too, but none of them caused such cpu peaks.
    (and of course the ram-size is 1 gb not mb)
     
    and if i open any WSA window i can move the mouse without any problem until i go over a menu item - so it seems that these items trigger that high cpu peaks. (as if it were a bad flash-site)
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