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afer installing McAfee antivirus . 7 my XP shuts down very slowly which
sometimes take 45 seconds!
i have disabled Disk check in the antivirus during shutdown, also all drive
have been defragmented recently and no system failur exists.
(while shutdowning windows 98 only take 3 seconds in the same computer)

CAN ANY ONE HELP ME OF THIS?

YOURS

H.JOHN
 
45 Second shutdown is not unreasonable for XP. Numerous services,
applications and registry (Profile) saves are done at shutdown. McAfee
will affect the responsiveness of Windows XP. Likely there are some
'housekeeping" operations being done that accounts for the "Lag".

Make sure your McAfee software is updated to the latest release.

Your only other option is to uninstall McAfee and test the Shutdown time
to verify McAfee is responsible.
 
H. JOHN said:
afer installing McAfee antivirus . 7 my XP shuts down very slowly which
sometimes take 45 seconds!
i have disabled Disk check in the antivirus during shutdown, also all drive
have been defragmented recently and no system failur exists.
(while shutdowning windows 98 only take 3 seconds in the same computer)

CAN ANY ONE HELP ME OF THIS?
Click to expand...

Thats a feature of the non-pro anti-virus program you selected to
install. Its for Average Joes. Are you an average Joe?
 
H. JOHN said:
afer installing McAfee antivirus . 7 my XP shuts down very slowly which
sometimes take 45 seconds!
i have disabled Disk check in the antivirus during shutdown, also all drive
have been defragmented recently and no system failur exists.
(while shutdowning windows 98 only take 3 seconds in the same computer)

CAN ANY ONE HELP ME OF THIS?

YOURS

H.JOHN
Click to expand...

Once again we seem to have discovered that McAfee products have a "who
dropped the anchor?" effect on computer performance.

If you are looking for a good antivirus program that does not have a
large impact on the computer here are a couple of suggestions:

1. eTrust from http://my-etrust.com
Good program that is fast and reliable.

2. AVG (free) from http://www.grisoft.com
This is the one that I use.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
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