It takes up so much room and it says it expired two year ago anyway. So should I just delete it all to free up room so my computer runs faster?
Thanks. It says I would have to register again if I remove mcafee but thats fine i guess. any other ideas as my laptop is SO slow all of a sudden? I do disk cleanup and defrag. now sure what else to do
Thank you! I appreciate the helpful answers!
Master Of Puppets
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I would get rid of it. McAfee is pretty terrible. If you have Windows 10, you have Windows Defender which is built-into Windows and is generally good enough for most users. If you want to use a 3rd party anti-virus, I would look into ESET NOD32. Its a lightweight and pretty unobtrusive anti-virus solution. I use it on a few machines at home and it has worked well for me.
Tony
Already mentioned, but yeah, get rid of it. Unfortunately most (larger) AV vendors feel the need to cramp more and more in their security software, and it just becomes big and slower.
Defender might be good enough.
Just always make sure you have only 1 AV software active since it will affect your computer's performance.
Anonymous
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i + i
So long as you have SOME kind of protection
enabled (and the fact that it expired two years
ago), then yes feel free to get rid of it. As for
your slowdown issues, you may want to look
at ALL of the apps you have -- how many of
them are actually necessary of useful? You
may have a bunch of them loaded right at
startup that serve no real purpose or are
only needed on rare occasions. Another
issue is registry clutter, and there are
several other things that may slow
your system down. You might want
to find an optimizer/tune-up app to
help you with some of these things...
there are several, and most of them
offer both a free level of service and
a more sophisticated paywall level.
Note that everything these apps do
can be done by hand, but can also
be quite tedious. Also note that the
improvements you (might) see won't
necessarily be huge, but may at least
help you somewhat. I've included a
link (in 'Sources" below) to an article
discussing several of them.
Pearl
thats up to you