Searching With WindowsXP

Why o Why….

When you do a search on your computer using Windows XP built in search mechanism, XP uses explorer.exe to execute your search. For some reason this process has a high priority thread setting and since searching is a reasonably intensive job it starts to use a lot of cpu time. But WTH! Does every thing else has to freeze because of that? Bill seems to say yes, I say NO Continue reading “Searching With WindowsXP”

Scanning recieved LiveMessenger Files with Avira Antivir Personal Edition (Windows)

How to ?

It’sz not that hard.

Download the command line scanner from avira and put it in your antivir directory. In WindowsLive Messenger go Extra->Options->File-transfers. scan your recieved files for virusses with the commandline scanner.

Point messenger to the command line scanner location.

in my case this was:

“C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\avcls.exe” -s

put -s behind it. This is the commandline command to scan a file.

Now WLM will scan any incoming file with av and stop whinning about dangerous files.

[edit: it doesn’t stop whinning, it just scans]

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