Try the usual - run disk cleanup, do a chkdsk, defrag. The other thing : what's slowing down your system? Could be anything. That's probably more information than you were looking for. Well, it probably will, and you even might find it acceptable if you're the kind of person who likes watching paint dry.ĭon't even ask about using a dial-up connection. That's the uncomfortable truth, even though the Marketing Division (hello, Sirius Cybernetics) insists McAfee will run on anything with 512Mb of memory and a few gigabytes of disk space. In particular, the update manager and installation will grab about a gigabyte of memory, which means a massive amount of memory swapping to and from disk (which is why access speeds are important). If, like many (me too, although I also have one of the newer machines) you have an older machine with limited memory, slow disk access speeds, and a single-core Pentium, your system will creak and groan when McAfee goes into one of its periodic bouts of heavy-duty processing. They never see any performance issues and are amazed when people complain. That, I assume, is what all the developers have got. If you've got an ultra-modern machine with huge amounts of memory and disk space (and fast disk access speeds) and a multi-core hyperthreaded top-range CPU, McAfee will run like a breeze. Second question : does McAfee slow down your system? Two answers here. Your browsers might run a bit faster, maybe. I used to run it once in a while just as an alternative to a Quick Scan, but I dropped it and I advise you to do the same. It used to be harmless enough (ultra-fast memory scan, check browser cache and history, not much else, and then vanish) but some time back it was modified to put hooks into your browsers and - from what I could see - stay resident as a hidden running service. It's basically a marketing come-on for someone who doesn't have McAfee. First, Security Scan Plus : uninstall it.
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