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Old 07-30-2008, 06:53 AM
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Re: Vista Slowness

Yeah, I have firefox on it already, same issue. I guess I'll try it on a hardwired connection and see if that improves it. If it seems as slow on the Cat 5 cable as the wireless then I will dump McAfee. Man, I hate when I upgrade and end up with less.


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Originally Posted by Tim View Post
Mcafee Security center usually runs about 13 processes all in its own when you have Firewall Plus, Site Advisor, Privacy Service, etc., so removing it usually will speed things up. My favorite anti-virus that is very transparent (uses very little resources) and very effective is ESET NOD32. It's rated as one of the top antivirus programs.

The other issue is the way that Windows Media Player and Adobe Flash player are integrated into Windows and IE7. Have you tried using Firefox?

Another way to help speed up computer performance is to disable User Account Control to gain some more resources back. That can be found in Control Panel >> User Accounts.
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