roger_m
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I had never run a Full Scan. This is something I usually avoid with all antiviruses. However, I just did a custom scan of C and let it complete. I didn't run a Full Scan, as there a 25 partitions on this system, so t would take a very long time. Running the scan of C did not reduce CPU use on subsequent scans. Also, it's important to note that with ASC Ultimate there was no excessive CPU use, even on the very first scan.
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2 minutes ago, Scannan said:
Open your Task manager and then run a scan in IMF.
See if IMF is responsible for all the increased CPU usage or if other processes are using CPU, due to the scan.
IMF may be causing other processes to activate.
IMF is the sole cause of the CPU use. I was not looking at total CPU usage, only CPU use from the IMF processes.
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Reduce resource usage. CPU use is over 90% when running a scan, which is way too high.
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2 hours ago, Scannan said:
Is this the first version of IMF you have used, or did you have the previous version, and if so, did it have the same CPU issue.
I have used previous versions of IMF, on different computers and didn't have this issue. However, I'm not sure the last version I used, other than this one, where I took note of CPU usage, as it's been quite some time, since I used IMF as my antivirus on the main computer I use.
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5 hours ago, Scannan said:
How long have you been using IMF, and did you have this issue from the first time you used it, or did it start later???
Right from when I first used it, and this is on a clean install of Windows 10.
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I just found out that I didn't have Full Detection enabled. But when I enabled it, CPU use was only very slightly higher.
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16 hours ago, Scannan said:
I have looked for others reporting this issue, and I have not found any.
Again, I suggest you try a complete uninstall and re-install.
I uninstalled, rebooted and then reinstalled it. The result was the same, as I had expected. I then uninstalled it again and installed a trial of ASC Ultimate. With the default settings, CPU usage is between 24% and 34% when scanning. Which is perfectly acceptable.
This is from a user at MalwareTips who experienced the same problem.
QuoteIobit Malware fighter is still too heavy for my liking, but Advanced System Care Ultimate is actually pretty good. I like it better than Bitdefender Antivirus and the detection rate is within 1-2% of Bitdefender's antivirus so it's detection rate is pretty good and they are constantly improving the engine for zero day threats as well.
As well as that, a while back there were some posts at Wilders with someone also experiencing very CPU (and RAM) USE with IMF 8, but I was not able to find the psots again.
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7 hours ago, Scannan said:
Did you try uninstalling and re-installing, in case there is a corruption in the program.
No I haven't. I don't believe there is corruption, as I know others who have the same issue. Apparently ASC Ultimate is lighter.
1 hour ago, Octavian said:What are the specs of PC?
i5 2400 CPU with 6GB of RAM. While not particularly powerful, it is more than fast enough for an antivirus to be able to run scans without excessive CPU use.
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57 minutes ago, Scannan said:
Is it high for the entire time it is scanning, or just at the beginning. It is quite normal for a scan to use maximum cpu when it begins and then it drops right
down as the scan progresses.
For the entire time.
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8 hours ago, Octavian said:
Can try setting scan priority to low in scan settings.
I just did that and CPU is still way too high, over 60% to over 70%. It should be less than that on medium priority.
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Reduce resource usage. CPU use is over 90% when running a scan, which is way too high.
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The RAM and CPU is very high when running scans, which is something that should be fixed. It is not an issue with my computer, it happens on multiple computers.
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A suggestion is when after rebooting, there are more programs to uninstall or scan for leftovers, for IObit Uninstaller to automatically launch again. There could be the option to switch been showing the popup, which asks if you want to launch it again - as it done now, or automatically running IObit Uninstaller again.
There are still some occasional issues with the software health function, where it want to delete leftovers from programs that are actually still installed.
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About the issue you reported, it is designed as this. When you click to scan with ASC about startup items, it is supposed to optimize startup items only.
You didn't understand me. After optimizing the startup items, only the Startup Optimization is selected. Rather than whatever was selected previously. Just the startup optimizer should run, but items selected, should remain checked,
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The outdated game components count is misleading. I think it would be better if only outdated game components were included in the count and not ones not installed. For example, if I run a scan, all the installed game components are up to date, but there are 6 I haven't installed. This means that driver Booster's desktop icon, shows that there are 6 missing drivers. Since usually people would have no need to install missing game components, it would be helpful if only outdated game components were counted.
A second suggestion is for you to keep a record of devices which have no driver installed and for which Driver Booster does not have the driver for and then you could try and find the missing drivers and add them to your database. You could even have some section in Driver Booster, where it lists the devices on a PC that you will try and find the missing drivers for. This is something that no other driver update software do does. In some cases, there will be no driver available for windows 10 for example, but will be one available for Windows 7. Maybe you could list these drivers and have the option to install them, with a warning that they may not be fully compatible with Windows 10.
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The new UI looks very nice. I've run it on two computers so far and in both cases no more registry errors were found.
There is a long running issue, that I've reported before, which I presume this version has too. When the startup timer, reports that there are startup items that can be optimized, and you choose to let it run a scan, in the Care screen, only "Startup Optimization" remains checked, no matter what items you previously had selected, only It would be much better, if the checked items did not change.
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You are aware that there is no chance in the world that ANY application will ever have every driver for every piece of hardware right?
As someone who has used every driver updater ever written, I am well aware of that. My point is that I see no evidence of there being any more drivers specifically in v7 vs previous versions.
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I'm not sure what drivers you're missing
There are plenty of devices that Driver Booster does not have drivers for.
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Only because you weren't actually reading what I wrote. I will wait to hear from IObit. Thanks for your help.
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Firstly...yes you did say you had not drivers installed....you said.."and some of the devices do not even have drivers installed."
Secondly...I can only act on what you tell me. You did not say anything about a clean install of Windows.
Thirdly...I do not work for Iobit. I volunteer on the Forum to try to assist users with issues. So...no I cannot answer the question regarding the database.
I have already suggested that you do the check yourself and thereby verify if Iobits database is incomplete and then Iobit can correct the issue as I have already suggested.
I said "some of the devices." Some does not mean all. Please actually read what I said, as I did mention clean installs of Windows 10.
My issue is that v7 appears to have the exact same database of drivers as v6. If this is the case, the claim of 1,000,000 extra drivers is a lie and should be withdrawn.
Is there someone from IObit who can answer my questions?
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I am not trying to promote DB, and if you have found newer drivers that DB did not find, then that is definitely something Iobit should look at.
However, I cannot understand how you can have a pc with no drivers installed. It would be impossible to boot such a machine. Every pc has some drivers installed as part of the operating system.
you only need new drivers if you add hardware or peripherals to your pc.
I honestly think that you are not quite sure regarding drivers, and this may be influencing your assessment of DB.
I never said I had no drivers installed. It was a clean install of Windows 10 and while most of the needed drivers were installed by Windows and Windows Update, no drivers were installed for two devices. Driver Booster did not find drivers for these two devices.
You are not answering my question as to why Driver Booster 7 does not appear to have any more drivers than Driver Booster 6 has. As I said, it appears that they are using the exact same database. If you won't answer the question, I can easily check for my myself and post the results here.
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It can only update drivers if there are updates available. As I said The only way to check how effective V7 is, is to go to your device(s) maker and see if they have newer updates.
There are newer updates for some of the devices and some of the devices do not even have drivers installed. But Driver Booster 7 does not find the updated or missing drivers. I've seen claims made in the past about new versions including more drivers, but in my experience it seems to me that new versions are using the exact same database of drivers as the previous versions.
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Why would you expect it to find more drivers than V6. .
Well you claim it has a database containing one million more drivers than v6 has. With that in mind, it is is logical to assume it would find drivers for some devices that v6 does not have in its database and that soe of the drivers it finds would be more recent drivers than v6 finds. Bear in mind that some of the computers I tested it on had clean installs of Windows 10, with no driver updates being done, other than from running Windows Update. One of the computers had two missing drivers, which were no found by either v6 or v7.
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I've installed it on four computers so far. I find the claim of having a million more drivers that v6 to be highly questionable. On every computer I've installed it on, it finds the same number of driver updates as v6 does and they have the same date.
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It would be handy if the option to delete unused installers to be not selected by default, to prevent users accidentally melting installers they want to keep. Some users like to keep installers for software they use in their Downloads folder.
It's certainly a useful function, but I think it might be better if it was optional to enable it.