Avast makes Browsing on Win8.1 unacceptably slow ...

Anacunga · 2015-05-31T09:00:17.000Z

… turning off AVAST is the remedy to speed it up again and avoid “MSIE has stopped unexpectedly and needs to be closed” and other bad things …

What’s wrong with it? not only MSIE affected, but also Chrome, SRWare Iron or K-Meleon …

Btw. totally new installed system withWin8.1 from install DVDs (restore media from manufacturer).

essexboy · 2015-05-31T10:09:28.000Z

As you used restore media did you uninstall the bundled antivirus ?

Anacunga · 2015-05-31T15:31:25.000Z

… hm … yes I did – probably it must be with the appropriate “hardcore-uninstaller” for the specific anti-virus-software … now I also did – so let’s see if it helped … (I assume it should have) …

Anacunga · 2015-06-01T20:08:27.000Z

… took the hardcore-deinstaller from the antivirussoft-manufacturer … and seems to work …

bob3160 · 2015-06-01T20:12:30.000Z

Anacunga post:4:

… took the hardcore-deinstaller from the antivirussoft-manufacturer … and seems to work …

Only one resident AV at a time.

You can n ow go back to your first post in this topic and put (Soloved) infron of the topic.

Anacunga · 2015-06-01T22:32:25.000Z

Thanks – the weird thing is that you officially uninstall the preinstalled AV-product and install Avast – and obviously did not uninstall the preinstalled stuff and therefore have more than one AV-product installed …

bob3160 · 2015-06-01T23:02:38.000Z

Anacunga post:6:

Thanks – the weird thing is that you officially uninstall the preinstalled AV-product and install Avast – and obviously did not uninstall the preinstalled stuff and therefore have more than one AV-product installed …

The only exception to the rule is Microsoft’s Security Essentials. All others require the removal tool provided by the manufacturer. That includes Avast.

Anacunga · 2015-06-02T07:27:24.000Z

bob3160 post:7:

The only exception to the rule is Microsoft’s Security Essentials. All others require the removal tool provided by the manufacturer. That includes Avast.

thank you … may I ask you to pin that on top of every install instructions? … thank you for doing that …

bob3160 · 2015-06-02T12:39:29.000Z

Anacunga post:8:

bob3160 post:7:

The only exception to the rule is Microsoft’s Security Essentials. All others require the removal tool provided by the manufacturer. That includes Avast.

thank you … may I ask you to pin that on top of every install instructions? … thank you for doing that …

It’s part of my signature:
[b]How to Successfully Install Avast http://goo.gl/VLXde[/b]

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