Badly designed applications = poo for your pc

Google desktop and Microsoft’s indexing equivalent scare the parp out of me. They’re nothing more than legal viruses (where a virus is a piece of malware designed to adversely affect your system performance).

I’ve been monitoring my system resources over the past few days and these two parasites have been averaging up to 3% of my CPU functionality.

Now 3% of CPU doesn’t sound like much does it? But I am using a custom-built laptop with two Intel Core Duo chips operating at 2.8Ghz in a real memory of 16Gb of RAM that writes to 120Gb of hard disk.

And 3% of that much processing power is a hell of a lot; it would extrapolate to a near-crippling amount of system resource engagement on a conventional laptop or PC.

So next time your pc or laptop runs slowly, switch the bloody things off, they’re nothing more than very badly written applications. And keep an eye on svchost.exe too, that one gets up to some very peculiar tricks!

B.