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Watch our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Joined Aug 15, Messages 4. I am running Mcafee Security Center on my computer rest of the specs about my computer are below. When Mcafee begins looking for updates and installing them automatically around start up that is when anything I'm doing on the computer either slows down to a crawl and can become unresponsive. The processes that seem to be taking over my CPU are: mcshield. And then the update process seems takes long as well sometimes as long as 30 minutes.

Its always taken this long, but recently I lost some valuable information due to my computer becoming unresponsive so that's when this became personal. Is it possible to limit the CPU usage by Mcafee so that my other programs aren't affected noticeably? Thanks in advance. I really appreciate the time and efforts of all of you here. Joined Aug 11, Messages What slows down my computer are the updates and update installations that Mcafee does.

My computer still slows down during updates. I haven't really gotten a solution yet. But as a temporary solution, my updates are not automatic anymore and so when I know i'm going for lunch or something i manually prompt mcafee to start looking for updates and installing them. You can also use the Windows Services tool to completely disable McAfee.

Disable Scanning and Firewall. Point to "Change Settings. Right-click the McAfee icon again. The purpose of On-Access Scan is to scan files in real time as they are opened to keep your system constantly protected. This means the service runs in the background while your computer is running. Have others noticed an incredible increase in the time needed for a full McAfee scan? On my core 2 quad XP SP3 desktop, the full scan used to take about minutes, but during the last few months, the time has increased to 7 or more hours.

The one major reason why it may take so long for the antivirus scan to complete is that you have other programs running at the same time. When you run a program you are using up CPU time. While it may seem like the antivirus is still running to you because the wait is so fast, it is slowing it down more than necessary.

The length of time for performing a Quick scan will vary but it generally takes about minutes so they can be performed daily. Click Scan your PC. Click Run a custom scan. Customize your scan options, then click Scan. Re: Sleep Mode and Scanning Hello MJ, You could scheduled a scan overnight , as McAfee has changed the way scheduled scans start to prevent your computer from launching a scan while you are using it, which could cause performance to be slower than desired.

If you are running macOS McAfee system requirements for Windows, Mac, and Linux. They also support Android Wear smartwatches and Apple Watch. How do I reduce McAfee memory usage?

Category: technology and computing antivirus software. Why is McAfee using so much memory? Address McAfee Memory Usage. Is McAfee any good? How do you update McAfee?

Method 1: From the McAfee icon on the desktop:. How do I scan my external hard drive with McAfee? First, make sure that the external hard drive is properly connected to the PC.