I'd say it's pretty clear to me that since I've uninstalled MSE I haven't
had a single freeze, 20 minute boot time , hang, or any other issues that
most likely MSE was the culprit. MSE wanted to scan repeatedly even after
completing scans within a matter of hours. Sum ting was clearly amok. As I
said before Safe Mode things work just fine. I previously had disabled most
startups in Msconfig, looked at all possibilities. I've been running Avast
Pro for about six months w/o any issues. I have nothing against MSE, and
I'll try a reinstall again eventually.
Brad
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RAM is not going to help. 8 GB is overkill for just about anyone.
I suppose it's possible MSE caused this, but it's unlikely.There would be a
huge number of reports and I haven't seen any at all.
How does it behave if you start in Safe Mode? Have you inadvertently
downloaded a second AV, or any link scanners? Look in Msconfig for unusual
entries, and enable boot logging.
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Deborah Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> For the past several days my PC has been extremely slow in loading the
> desktop.
> Yesterday was the worst.....about 30 mins from the the time Widows
> started to the loading of the desktop. Then the windows & system froze
> & I did a hard re-boot.......several times.
> It starts fine in safe mode.
> I finally called HP tech support; as per their instructions, I
> performed standard system maintenance functions such as de-frag, hard
> drive check & repair, etc. Also used the installed HP system utility
> for troubleshooting...no problems found. The PC finally restarted
> again. albeit still slowly to get to the desktop.
> I then ran a full system virus check with Avast...no viruses. Also
> scanned with two spyware programs & Windows Security
> essentials......no malware or spyware of any significance.....just some
cookies, etc.
> Could this be a memory issue?
> I use Opera Browser & have always had a problem with
> "non-responding".........this seems to be the worst offender.
> Occasionally other programs act up as well.
> I have been thinking about doubling the RAM to 8GB.
> Would this solve my current problem?
> Please advise.
> Deb in northern Illinois
> Thanks.
>
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