Hello everyone, I know everybody has their preferences about antivirus, lots of you are happy with avast. But for some reason after I installed Avast my computer got so slow! takes more time to boot, to load up all my programs when starting up, when watching videos online they freeze!
Before installing Avast my computer was ok. I did the installation then asked me if I wanted to do a scan when my computer starts up the next time so I said yes. I restarted my pc, took more time than normal to boot. then I see that a scanning process was started (before windows starts) I I let it run for a little while but it was taking forever and I had to do something so I cancelled it. then when my pc was loading my programs at start up it was taking forever!!!!! it even stopped working for a few minutes so I had to turn it off! I turn it back on but again it took forever, its working but took too much time to start (booting takes 1 minutes, when you first turn it on and see the windows xp logo. takes one minute before I can see the user's name to start windows) After my computer has done loading all my regular programs (such as msn, antivirus, yahoo messenger etc) still works slow, my cpu works at 100 almost all the time, when I try to watch a video on line it gets worse, the video freezes and I have to close internet explorer. I have uninstalled Avast, but the problem is not gone, still there, is not that bad as before but still my computer don't work as before. Still take 1 minute to boot, then takes forever to load up my programs and I still have the same problem trying to watch videos. browsing the web is not that bad. but when I want to watch videos my cpu goes to 100!!
I know Avast had something to do with my computer working so slow because it was not like that! I'm not saying Avast is a bad antivirus, may be my system did not meet the system requirements for this antivirus. So I need help to get my computer back to work as before. please help!!!