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Mouse pauses every time HardDrive reads data.
Well guys, in my previous message I said that Norton Antivirus 2002 was causing VPN disconnects after 20 minutes or so. That is incorrect. The VPN disconnects was a result of a 20 minute remote access timeout setting that is default on the Windows NT 4.0 server operating system. So Norton...- Teckie
- Post #12
- Forum: Computer engineering general discussion
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Mouse pauses every time HardDrive reads data.
Well michalis, you're right. The answer is to get rid of McAfee Antivirus. McAfee's background scanning seems to be responsible for the sluggish mouse upon hard drive reads. But, for some reason some machines don't have a problem with McAfee's background scans. Maybe its a chipset difference...- Teckie
- Post #10
- Forum: Computer engineering general discussion
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Mouse pauses every time HardDrive reads data.
Are you all using Mcafee anti-virus software? If you are, try disabling system scan in the Mcafee VirusScan properties sheet. When I did this the pausing seemed to go away. The only problem is, if you want to have protection from viruses, system scan must be enabled. My wife has Mcafee...- Teckie
- Post #5
- Forum: Computer engineering general discussion
