John, that all sounds very good.  But let's say you have another drive to 
back things up on and you copy everything over to it.  Then you reformat 
your hard drive and recopy everything back over.  How do you know you aren't 
recopying all those fragments, bad files Etc.?
Harvey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 6:14 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Fw: [BlindTech] Sluggishness and Microsoft Security 
Essentials ServiceStopped


> If you have multiple antivirus programs on your computer, that's a problem
> in itself and usually ms security essentials will be disabled. Also, when 
> do
> you get this message? IF it's at start up or while installing updates, 
> that
> happens and once it's done booting up and what not it will run the program
> fine on it's own, if in the middle of just every day use,there's something
> going on. Ms security essentials will update when you get windows updates 
> so
> you don't need to manually update it, if the system tray thing says the
> computer may not be protected, it's time to do a scan. If it's still 
> running
> slow after all those scans, I have to wonder a couple things. 1, have you
> done a defrag on the drive? Also, how long have you run the system since a
> complete reformat and reinstall? After a while, there's just so much stuff
> that builds up, fragments of old programs and what not, even though some 
> say
> with newer systems you don't have that problem but any heavily used system 
> I
> find will eventually be so weighed down with stuff after a few years it 
> will
> need to be reformatted and started from scratch. If there is a trogen or
> something on there and no program is finding it, same thing.