A list of what software heavily puts on Windows



Last time,Antivirus software rankingAlthough I wrote that, at that time some opinions have been received saying "no matter how excellent it is, it will not be useful".

So, when I looked it up, there were sites that experimented and listed how much the system became heavy as a result of actually installing various software such as antivirus software.

The results are as follows.
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Percentage is the ratio of how heavy it is. It seems to be the result measured in the Microsoft Virtual PC 4 (SP 1) environment. I am not trying any software, but it will be helpful.

First place: Norton Internet Security 2006 (57.78%)

Second place: 1000 fonts (40.00%)

3rd place: Kaspersky Internet Security (14.22%)

4th place: Yahoo Instant Messenger 8.0 (14.22%)

5th place: AOL Instant Messenger 1.5 Preview (13.78%)

6th: McAfee SecurityCentre (11.56%)

7th place: Kazaa 3 (+ included crapware) (11.56%)

8th place: Trillian 3.1 Basic (11.11%)

9th: VMWare Workstation 5.5.1 - 19 (11.11%)

10th place: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Pro. (10.22%)


Kaspersky, who was ranked first in anti-virus software rankings, seems to be in a heavy category if it resides. Well it is somewhat better than the weight of Norton ....

In addition, the 11th place and the following feeling.

11th: .NET Framework Runtime 2.0 (8.89%)

12th: 100 fonts (7.11%)

13th: Microsoft Office 2003 (v11) Pro. (6.67%)

14th: Windows Live Messenger (MSNM 8) (6.67%)

15th place: Gaim 1.5.0 (6.22%)

16th: Adobe Photoshop CS 2 (5.78%)

17th place: OpenOffice 2.0.3 (5.33%)

18th: Macromedia Studio MX 2004 (5.33%)

19th: QuickTime 7.1 (4.89%)

20th place: DivX 6.3 (4.89%)

21st: DirectX 9.0c (4.89%)

22nd: Azureus 2.5.0.0 (+ Java Runtime) (4.44%)

23rd place: BitDefender v10 (4.00%)

24th: WinRAR 3.60 (4.00%)

25th: Java Runtime 1.5.0.06 (4.00%)

26th: WinAce 2.65 (3.56%)

27th place: K-Lite Codec Pack 2.76 FULL (3.11%)

28th: ​​WinZip (3.11%)

29th place: 7-Zip 4.42 (2.67%)

30th place: BitComet 0.7 (2.22%)

31th: uTorrent 1.4 (1.78%)

in Software, Posted by darkhorse_log