En The PC Spy han publicado un estudio donde hicieron una serie de pruebas para determinar, que aplicaciones hacen lenta tu Pc en comparación con una instalción limpia de Windows.
Estos son algunos resultados:
| Software | Tiempo de carga (segundos) |
Lentitud del sistema (segundos) |
Lentitud del sistema (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norton Internet Security 2006 | 118.33 | 43.33 | 57.78 |
| 1000 Fonts | 105.00 | 30.00 | 40.00 |
| Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0.0.303 | 85.67 | 10.67 | 14.22 |
| Yahoo Instant Messenger 8.0 | 85.67 | 10.67 | 14.22 |
| AOL Instant Messenger 1.5 Preview | 85.33 | 10.33 | 13.78 |
| McAfee SecurityCentre | 83.67 | 8.67 | 11.56 |
| Kazaa 3 (+included crapware) | 83.67 | 8.67 | 11.56 |
| Trillian 3.1 Basic | 83.33 | 8.33 | 11.11 |
| VMWare Workstation5.5.1-19 | 83.33 | 8.33 | 11.11 |
| Microsoft Visual Studio2005 Pro. | 82.67 | 7.67 | 10.22 |
| .NET Framework Runtime2.0 | 81.67 | 6.67 | 8.89 |
| 100 Fonts | 80.33 | 5.33 | 7.11 |
| Microsoft Office 2003(v11) Pro. | 80.00 | 5.00 | 6.67 |
| Windows Live Messenger(MSNM8) | 80.00 | 5.00 | 6.67 |
| Gaim 1.5.0 | 79.67 | 4.67 | 6.22 |
| Adobe Photoshop CS 2 | 79.33 | 4.33 | 5.78 |
| OpenOffice 2.0.3 | 79.00 | 4.00 | 5.33 |
| Macromedia Studio MX 2004 | 79.00 | 4.00 | 5.33 |
| QuickTime 7.1 | 78.67 | 3.67 | 4.89 |
| DivX 6.3 | 78.67 | 3.67 | 4.89 |
| DirectX 9.0c | 78.67 | 3.67 | 4.89 |
| Azureus 2.5.0.0 (+ Java Runtime) | 78.33 | 3.33 | 4.44 |
| BitDefender v10 | 78.00 | 3.00 | 4.00 |
| WinRAR 3.60 | 78.00 | 3.00 | 4.00 |
| Java Runtime 1.5.0.06 | 78.00 | 3.00 | 4.00 |
| WinAce 2.65 | 77.67 | 2.67 | 3.56 |
| K-Lite Codec Pack 2.76FULL | 77.33 | 2.33 | 3.11 |
| WinZip | 77.33 | 2.33 | 3.11 |
| 7-Zip 4.42 | 77.00 | 2.00 | 2.67 |
| BitComet 0.7 | 76.67 | 1.67 | 2.22 |
| uTorrent 1.4 | 76.33 | 1.33 | 1.78 |
| Control (none) | 75.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |