"My computer" slow after installing AIS 5

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hello,
I previously had Avast free 5 and had no problem but since i installed Avast internet security, when i use the window explorer to view “My Computer” I have a blank window and only after 6 sec it shows me my hard drives ???

does someone has an idea ?

Thank you

edit : to be sure that it was avast, i reboot in safe mode, made a clean remove of avast with the avast cleaner file, and reboot in normal mode. Then “my computer” appeared immediately. Then made a new AIS installation, and it was the same problem again has above.

2

Any other security program that could interfere?
It does take some time to scan (File Shield) but it shouldn’t be an annoyance.

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I also have a slow My Computer, but more of an annoyance is the slow down of Firefox. It takes about 30 seconds to load after updating my avast! to the most recent version. I think it’s the File Shield as when Firefox is loading up, the File Shield seems to be scanning lots of Firefox files. I checked Task Manager as Firefox was loading and it showed the CPU for Firefox at about 50% and the memory slowly growing every second and then jump down to where it started then go slowly back up again. Any ideas Mr Tech?!

Thanks

4

Try disk cleanup and defrag.

5

Yeah, my bad, just seems my computer needed a bit of a cleanup. It’s back to its normal self. Thanks.