Hi
Well it has slowed down a bit, I just timed it from when the splash screen first shows to the desktop and it took 35 seconds so not as fast as it did right after removing IE.
But this is still faster then before I removed it.
Every once in a while I'll find something that seems to make my computer run better and I'm not sure what it was.
Right now my computer is running very fast, everything feels snappy.
I week ago I was lamenting how slow it felt.
I guess tomorrow I'll make an image so that I can come back to this point.
Computers do have on and off times, I have no idea why it changes but this time it did get better when I uninstalled IE.
I have noticed that running Malwarebytes Pro and AVG does have a hit on my computers performance.
But it's nothing like the hit it took back when I ran McAfee.
Of course everything is relative, my computer will run anything pretty fast.
I can run The Elder Scrolls Online, Skyrim, or The Secret World with everything set to ultimate and still get 70 fps in stereo for each eye, or actually 140 fps, on a 27" monitor, that's true for pretty much any game I install.
Now that I replaced the leaking cooler it's staying cool again too.
I guess the next computer I get will have solid state drives, but so far I'm still a little nervous about them. LOL
I'd like to have the whole computer solid state but that would take 4 500 GB drives, pretty expensive still.
But prices are coming down a lot.
You can get a Samsung 840 500 GB drive for
$250.
But that's still a thousand bucks just for hard drives.
I see that they have had almost
2,500 reviews on Amazon and have a solid 5 star rating.
They actually have no reviews under 4 stars, you never see that.
That's encouraging anyway.
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Elect...=1401768412&sr=1-2&keywords=solid+state+drive
Mike