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I remove temp files almost daily via Internet Options, along with cookies and history, and defragment once a week since it goes faster the more frequently you do it. Never had to do that with Trend Micro, as I could schedule the shorter scans once a month at a time during the day when I knew I'd be away from the computer for a couple of hours.Īs I said previously, even Consumer's Union (Consumer Reports) tests put McAfee way down the list for scan durations (among other things).

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I think it might be just easier to try and remember to start a manual full scan at the end of the day, one day a month. Otherwise it wants to run the scan when you first turn the system on the next morning, which is inevitably what happens. The trick, because of the 5 hours needed, is to remember to leave the computer on before retiring that one night of the month, so it can run all night. Right now I have QuickClean scheduled once a week while the system is idle for a while, and Full Scan once a month. The Trend Micro Internet Security I had never took anywhere near as long, and a full system scan might be 1-2 hours, but certainly not 5. Just double-clicking on the taskbar McAfee icon can result in a wait of up to a minute for the McAfee Security Center window to fully open. My sister-in-law's laptop runs McAfee provided by Comcast, and she complains of the 4-5 hour scan time as well.

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One has to go through several 'hoops' to find the place to adjust the full scan schedule, and I always have trouble remembering how to find it - it's not under 'Maintain Computer' like QuickClean, but rather it's hiding several clicks in under Virus Protection somewhere.

In 'Maintain Computer', the only selections available from the dropdown menu for 'Scheduled Task' are QuickClean and Defragmenter. The problem is the full system scan that occasionally pops up as 'scheduled' and wants to be let run. I have used the QuickClean manually many times on both computers, and it works pretty fast, and is scheduled once a month as automatic. McAfee tells me the two Security Centers are essentially the same, except for minor system/browser-dedicated differences. The XP desktop has 'Webroot Spysweeper for MSN' in addition to 'McAfee Security Center for MSN', both configured for and downloaded via MSN. The Vista laptop only has Windows Defender on it in addition to McAfee Security Center, both Dell factory installed. Trend Micro was uninstalled from the desktop upon switching to McAfee Security Center for MSN last month. I have 1GB of RAM on the desktop and 4 GB on the laptop.

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if your Ram size is 256 MB try to upgrade your ram size. to find it go to start > right click on 'my computer ' > go to ' properties '.

May I know your the ram memory size of your computer. These are the ways to delete the unwantd temp files in ur computr. Īlso try deleting the start > run > '%temp%', go to start > run > 'prefetch' and delete whatever you find inside these. Īlso can try to delete unwanted temp files by going to Start > Run> type 'temp' and delete the files & folders u find in the temp windows. Then you will find mcafee quick cean click 'start' make sure that ' registry cleaner, all the 4 outlook cleaners & system restore point cleaners' must be unchecked and the remaining cleaners be checked click next > next > next (by default 'no i want to delete using standard windows standard deletion ' will be checked ) click next to finish the quick clean and restart your computer after doing quick clean. īefore doing the scan you can just try doing mcafee quick clean, if you are using mcafee 2009 version then in your mcafee home page click on 'MAINTAIN COMPUTER ' at the left side. What is the scan location or the path where scan stops or freezes & just find out whether mcafee scan is moving slowly or is it stuck on a file/folder name.

If so pls do delete them by going to start > controlpanel > add or remove programs.

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Do you still have Trend Micro Internet Security software or any other 3rd party security protection or (spyware, adware malware protection ) installed in your computer.

Norton security scan taking too ling to unsinstall