is there anyway to disable my macafee with out?

Question

taking it off my computer and reloading it I thought putting it in the recycle ben and then refresing it
would that work???
i think its lagging my computer

Answer 1

McAfee and Norton both are system resource hogs. Unless you have a decent processor and plenty of RAM on your PC it wll slow you down. It typically needs about 70M Bytes of RAM to run.

I used to buy Norton Systemworks every year for about the last 10 years. I quit spending the $80 a year and I've opted for AVG Antivirus which is free.

AVG has prevented several malicious invasions from happening. I would recommend you give it a try. AVG only needs about 5M of RAM to operate. That's a vast difference from McAfee or Norton.

AVG is FREE and is available from the following sites.

http://www.grisoft.com
http://www.download.com

The only caveat I would make is that you should get a good spyware program and have that running also. I would recommend Spy Sweeper if you are willing to purchase it. It only cost about $30 for the first year and $19.95 each year after that.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Putting it in the recycle bin will not work ;)
You need to disable it in McAfee itself or just uninstall is. McAfee is known (as well as Norton is) to lag PCs. Plus, they find a very low percentage of malware considering how popular they are for some reason. (Use Trend Micro's PC-Cillan)

Answer 3

click start run and type msconfig then click the startuptab

uncheck macafee and reboot macafee won't load on start up . Just check the check box in the warning window that pops up after the restart and click ok.

Answer 4

Puting it in your recycling bin wont do anything, your best bet is to uninstall it and then reinstall it.

Answer 5

no, you need it as to not get viruses

Answer 6

i have the same problem, thanks for asking. Lets wait for an answer.