Hot Take Bitdefender... You Love it, but it slows down your PC... Want to Make BD Superfast ? Do This... Takes 3-4 Days,

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A Quick Scan won't be enough. You must do a full scan.

This is so BD can become acclimated to your PC.

After the FULL Scan is done, open all your software, and applications once.

Leave your PC on for 6-12 hours, with no activity on the device (maybe while sleeping).

After 72-96 hours of daily use the process of acclimation should be complete.

Now you will have no slowdowns from BD. *Considering hardware and PC are in good working order.

*** This is NOT My Post. It is from Tech guy on BD Forum. Tried on wife's laptop... Superfast

**** I also rewrote it as English may not have been his first language

***** My apologies to the veterans and supersmart guys here at MWTS, this is probably old news. But it was new news to me, maybe to others also.
 
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KnownStormChaser said:
I think it writes all the definitions over again when it updates, around 500 MB worth.
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What kind of mythology is this? It doesn't download 500MB per update. Updates are quite fast.
BD simply makes a backup after each update, and the total takes up about 500MB. Then, the next update, it deletes the backup and automatically creates another one.

However, as I've written in other threads, when Bitdefender is installed correctly on a computer, it doesn't slow down anything—not the internet, not the disk, not copying, not web browsing. Nothing. It's simply unnoticeable, but it always reserves the 1-1.2 GB of RAM.
 
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IceMan7 said:
What kind of mythology is this? It doesn't download 500MB per update. Updates are quite fast.
BD simply makes a backup after each update, and the total takes up about 500MB. Then, the next update, it deletes the backup and automatically creates another one.
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Other AVs don't do this, they do it incrementally so it's faster and doesn't wear out your drive as fast.
 
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IceMan7 said:
What kind of mythology is this? It doesn't download 500MB per update. Updates are quite fast.
BD simply makes a backup after each update, and the total takes up about 500MB. Then, the next update, it deletes the backup and automatically creates another one.

However, as I've written in other threads, when Bitdefender is installed correctly on a computer, it doesn't slow down anything—not the internet, not the disk, not copying, not web browsing. Nothing. It's simply unnoticeable, but it always reserves the 1-1.2 GB of RAM.
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Well I have 64 or 128 should be enough if I go with BD. But what is confusing is wife laptop IDK has 8 or 16 and BD runs very fast on her CHEAP 3 year old Laptop ?????????
 
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KnownStormChaser said:
Other AVs don't do this, they do it incrementally so it's faster and doesn't wear out your drive as fast.
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Actually, ESET does the same. But what takes Bitdefender 10 seconds, takes 2 seconds for ESET. So users never notice. Backing up signatures can be disabled in ESET. The backup process doesn't increase disk writes. But it still writes at least 380-400 MB on each update. Often even more but less than Bitdefender.
But anyway, most people don't actually care about SSD writes (I do). Their TBW values nowadays are also very high so they last long.
 
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SeriousHoax said:
Actually, ESET does the same. But what takes Bitdefender 10 seconds, takes 2 seconds for ESET. So users never notice. Backing up signatures can be disabled in ESET. The backup process doesn't increase disk writes. But it still writes at least 380-400 MB on each update. Often even more but less than Bitdefender.
But anyway, most people don't actually care about SSD writes (I do). Their TBW values nowadays are also very high so they last long.
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Not entirely true, ESET does update incrementally.

 
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Trident said:
That’s similar to Avast streaming updates and many years ago, Norton Pulse Update.

Butdefender is not so heavy, it can be optimised and it automatically optimises itself. But it will never be as efficient as NGAV/cloud-based competitors.
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That is probably true, as McAfee is totally cloud based and very fast... IF that is the future, I wonder why BD doesn't go that way as McAfee has done.
 
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IceMan7 said:
However, as I've written in other threads, when Bitdefender is installed correctly on a computer, it doesn't slow down anything—
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2 of my other AV licenses have expired, considering BD -- how do you install correctly, or how can it be installed incorrectly so I avoid that?
 
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