BTW, XP and win2k use a scaled down licensed version of the full Diskeeper defrag app. The full version adds in scheduling, and boot time defrag, etc.
Why do you run the online McAfee scanner as well as the AVG? AVG is already protecting your system, the slowdown may in fact be a conflict brought on by running these two app concurrently. It is a common occurrence in running similar apps of this nature concurrently.
Peter Kaulback
In the hour of 10:24 PM 8/30/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke this:
In a message dated 8/30/2004 8:25:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Let me gripe first. I don't how many messages I've read that say something
> like "when I go to open it I get an error message saying something about
> Excel, I can't remember the rest of the name it gave me." When you get an error
> message stop and write down what it says! It could be important. Sorry,
> Dale you aren't the only one.
No problem, but Im sorry, I was extremely annoyed, and tired seeing as
how I wrote that first thing in the morning and was in a hurry to get to
work.
>
> I don't understand the part about downloading McAfee. Is it an online scan
> or are you running two A/V programs.
I have AVG on my puter and I use the free McAfee but I have to get on
line to use it. It dl's first then I hit the "Scan" button and it runs.
Normally it'll take about 20 minutes (I think) to run through the whole C drive.
This time it took over 7 hours just to get through the first 4400 files.
>
> It's sounds like something is causing some program in your start up to fail.
> It may be that the slow down is caused by programs that are trying to load
> and can't but they are still taking up resources trying to start. Get your
> computer started and go to run on the start menu and type msconfig. Someone
> correct me if that's not the correct command for WinME. When msconfig
> appears, go to the startup tab and find the cd program that's not loading correctly
> and uncheck it. Reboot and see if that helps. If it doesn't help, you can
> try disabling other programs that are starting automatically. I would do one
> at a time and then reboot and see the effect. Use a little common sense
> about which ones to disable first. Leave the important ones like your anti-virus
> for last.
I just had a puter techie friend of mine here and he looked at it
quickly and did all sorts of stuff to it, but it still hasn't helped. I still
can't run the spyware and it still takes nearly an hour to run defrag because it
goes in very small chuncks at a time and restarts about 40 or 50 times once
after each chunck. It took over 20 minutes to do the last 3% to 5%.
In a few minutes I'm going to TRY to run the McAfee again and go to
bed (if I have to) while it's running.
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