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Thread ID: 106553 2010-01-13 09:22:00 Slow Boot Times and Security Essentials Lizard (2409) Press F1
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848359 2010-01-13 09:22:00 I installed MS Security Essentials last week, and now my boot time has gone from 45s to nearly 3 mins. It shows the Win7 splash screen, and then the HDD stops for a couple of minutes, then it goes to the welcome screen and then into windows. I ran MSconfig and chose the diagnostic option, which disabled all the startup programs, and it booted in 45s again. I then re-ticked MSSE (nothing else), and back to 3 mins. It's pretty clear that MSSE is the culprit - does anyone know why it's doing this, and more importantly, how to fix it? MSSE is running at the default options. Lizard (2409)
848360 2010-01-13 09:24:00 I installed MS Security Essentials last week, and now my boot time has gone from 45s to nearly 3 mins. It shows the Win7 splash screen, and then the HDD stops for a couple of minutes, then it goes to the welcome screen and then into windows. I ran MSconfig and chose the diagnostic option, which disabled all the startup programs, and it booted in 45s again. I then re-ticked MSSE (nothing else), and back to 3 mins. It's pretty clear that MSSE is the culprit - does anyone know why it's doing this, and more importantly, how to fix it? MSSE is running at the default options.

Have a look in MSSE settings/options. It may be doing a startup file check or other things on startup. Happened to me with ESET.
xyz823 (13649)
848361 2010-01-13 09:32:00 It does slow things down, you'll see entries in event viewer. You'll probably have to wait till MS bring an update out. It can also take the CPU usage to 100%, with some programs Speedy Gonzales (78)
848362 2010-01-13 17:42:00 Turn off scanning at startup and I have turned off the scheduled scan and just run it when I am going out solved both issues gary67 (56)
848363 2010-01-14 08:04:00 I looked for a scan at startup option, but couldn't find it. Directions, please? Lizard (2409)
848364 2010-01-14 08:08:00 Probably have to remove its entry in startup. Altho this wont help, since the culprit still runs (mspmpeng.exe). You'll have to kill realtime scanning Speedy Gonzales (78)
848365 2010-01-14 09:20:00 I found that boot time is quicker with MSSE than it was with Avast!

LL
lakewoodlady (103)
848366 2010-01-15 01:07:00 I have seen no problems on the 8 or so machines I have installed it on. Funny that it seems to behave badly at times.

There is no scan on startup provision so it can't be stopped!!
linw (53)
848367 2010-01-15 01:26:00 A lot has to do with the power of the machine as well. Several Xp's I have put it on, no problems, BUT if the CPU is on the smaller side :sleep Example, a underpowered HP / XP only had a celeron 1GHz CPU MSSE took around 4 minutes just to start after booting into the desktop. wainuitech (129)
848368 2010-01-15 04:58:00 Even with a dual core 2.8, it takes longer to load. When MSSE is installed. Only diff I've noticed is, there isnt a lot of high cpu usage in Win7. Like there is with XP. Speedy Gonzales (78)
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