Performance is terrible

[davew]

I am running textpad 6.2.2(32 bit) on windows 7 64 bit laptop.
Recently (like in last month) Text pad has started to run very very slowly. almost making it unusable. I am talking seconds to highlight or enter aa character during which time the CPU monitor is showing 6-8% CPU usage by textpad.

I upgraded to latest version hoping it would go away but didn't.

I cannot think of any other system change that happened.

If I start a new document then performance is fine until I save it.

Anyone have any ideas what can be causing this?

[kengrubb]

Have you tried virus scan, chkdsk, defrag?

I run TP 6.2.2, and I have used TP for about 13 years ever since 4.x

Unless you're loading up a file that is 50 MB or more, I cannot see TP being the culprit, and if you are loading up a file that is 50 MB or more, expect some delays.

[davew]

I actually found something a bit more specific to this problem.
It seems to only occur when editing files in specific directories.
I have a folder C:\Work for instance with multiple sub directories and files there are slow where as editing files in other places are fine

I may try defragging the disk though as that hasnt been done for a while.
I am using McAfee anti virus.

[Huxley]

I've been having problems with extreme slowness when TextPad is used to edit even simple text files. I've traced this to the 'real-time' scanning of McAfee software; when turned off, TextPad works fine!

Unfortunately, McAfee does not allow adding files in program folder to be added to the exclusion list. Looks like I need a different anti-virus!