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From: Zak Johnson <zakj AT nox DOT cx>
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Subject: Re: Slow performance following upgrade [SOLVED]
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Zak Johnson wrote:
> I recently installed Cygwin (1.5.24(0.156/4/2)) on a new (dual-core)
> machine, and am seeing much slower performance than a February install
> of Cygwin on an older machine (no longer available for comparison, I'm
> afraid).
> [...]

I've tracked this down to yet another Dodgy Application: "EMBASSY Trust
Suite" by Wave Systems.  This inserts wxvault.dll into every process's
DLL list.  I disabled that DLL using the Sysinternals Autoruns tool,
rebooted, and all works perfectly.

Thanks again to all who responded.

-Zak

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