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From: Michael C on 25 Sep 2009 10:37
For some reason, my mcafee security software is taking longer to load onto
windows on startup. I disabled anything that loads in my system tray from
msconfig, so the only thing that loads is the mcafee. It still starts slow
and mcafee said they do not know what the problem is. What else can I do?
Should I disable more stuff in my ms config?
From: BillW50 on 25 Sep 2009 10:43
In news:00210BA2-865F-447E-9803-E360698DDF5A(a)microsoft.com,
Michael C typed on Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:37:01 -0700:
> For some reason, my mcafee security software is taking longer to load
> onto windows on startup. I disabled anything that loads in my system
> tray from msconfig, so the only thing that loads is the mcafee. It
> still starts slow and mcafee said they do not know what the problem
> is. What else can I do? Should I disable more stuff in my ms config?

Well disable McAfee and if the slowness is gone, you know it was McAfee
right?

--
Bill
Windows XP SP2 (5.1.2600)
Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC


From: LVTravel on 25 Sep 2009 11:11


"Michael C" <MichaelC(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:00210BA2-865F-447E-9803-E360698DDF5A(a)microsoft.com...
> For some reason, my mcafee security software is taking longer to load onto
> windows on startup. I disabled anything that loads in my system tray from
> msconfig, so the only thing that loads is the mcafee. It still starts slow
> and mcafee said they do not know what the problem is. What else can I do?
> Should I disable more stuff in my ms config?

One of the worst security suites out there, running a close second to
Norton's product.

Free Zone Alarm firewall and either free Avast or AVG anti-viral programs
are faster, leave a much smaller footprint of memory use and greater program
and operating system reliability.

Download and run Malwarebytes and Spybot Search and Destroy (after
installing and updating) to ensure there are no nasties that McAfee missed.

From: Ken Blake, MVP on 25 Sep 2009 11:31
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:37:01 -0700, Michael C
<MichaelC(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> For some reason, my mcafee security software is taking longer to load onto
> windows on startup. I disabled anything that loads in my system tray from
> msconfig, so the only thing that loads is the mcafee. It still starts slow
> and mcafee said they do not know what the problem is. What else can I do?
> Should I disable more stuff in my ms config?



Three points.

1. You say you "disabled anything that loads in [your] system tray,"
and want to know whether you should disable more "stuff." Whether it
loads into the tray is completely irrelevant. If a background program
loads when you boot, it may impact your performance, whether or not
it's in the tray.

2. McAfee, in my view (and that of lots of others here) is the second
worst security software available. Only Norton is worse.

3. Here's my standard message on slow startup:

My personal view is that the attention many people pay to how long it
takes to boot is unwarranted. Assuming that the computer's speed is
otherwise satisfactory, it may not be worth worrying about. Most
people start their computers once a day or even less frequently. In
the overall scheme of things, even a few minutes to start up isn't
very important. Personally I power on my computer when I get up in the
morning, then go get my coffee. When I come back, it's done booting. I
don't know how long it took to boot and I don't care.

However if you do want to address it, it may be because of what
programs start automatically, and you may want to stop some of them
from starting that way. On each program you don't want to start
automatically, check its Options to see if it has the choice not to
start (make sure you actually choose the option not to run it, not
just a "don't show icon" option). Many can easily and best be stopped
that way. If that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run
line, and on the Startup tab, uncheck the programs you don't want to
start automatically.

However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of
running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell
you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs
you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but
others have no effect on performance.

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do
is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what
the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You can get
more information about these with google searches and asking about
specifics here.


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 25 Sep 2009 12:17
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Michael C wrote:
> For some reason, my mcafee security software is taking longer to load onto
> windows on startup. I disabled anything that loads in my system tray from
> msconfig, so the only thing that loads is the mcafee. It still starts slow
> and mcafee said they do not know what the problem is. What else can I do?
> Should I disable more stuff in my ms config?

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