Hey all, I am trying to disable McAfee from Startup but according to my net searches here suggests that win8 does not have the Msconfig?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-system-configuration#1TC=windows-7

 

I looked at McAfee's setting and not seeing any options to disable from startup, any ideas please?

Hi Mike,

 

It's in Administrative Tools. Hold down the windows logo key and press the R key.

In the open box type msconfig and click Okay.

cool, thanks a million Cindy!

You're welcome, Mike! :D

 

BTW, Why do you want to take McAfee out of startup?

The owner wants to try out Trend Micro for one month so I was seeking a way to disable McAfee indefinitely for that time since reinstalling it would involve him having to contact them for licensing info.

Mike do not just disable MacAfee, to do that you must uninstall it because it will still be there and slow the computer to a crawl, whether or not it is running in startup. BTW that is no trade, MacAfee is useless but Trend Micro is more than useless and will really drag down the system. Tell them to go with Nod32 pl,ease, it's cheaper, will actually help keep pc clean and with no system drag.

One thing that puzzles me too is that you can do msconfig in the run box and it takes you to startup which is now in task manager.

For some reason if you go to task manager without starting in "Run" it isn't there but you can still access it starting the old way. Cindy's shortcut though is neat and I didn't know that one.

I don't know about Trend Micro Rich, I had tried all of the top guns [Eset, nod32, bitdefender, avast, kaspersky e.t.c] and Trend Micro has always worked great for me. It seems every tech I have ever spoken to on this had a different preference. I had used Nod32 and Eset many years ago and back then I was told that they were being left in the dust by others which is why I had abandoned them. We have Trend micro on 4 machines here and never a worry.

I think every tech has their own personal favorites, Mike. I have been using Nod32 for the past six years now and I wouldn't think of using any other antivirus. I have tested many but I always go back to Eset.

 

Rich and I have both tested Trend Micro and found it very easy to get infected. Nod32, however blocked everything I threw at it. Of course none of them give complete protection with everything that there is out there, today.

There was a brief time where I felt the site protection had gone away with Eset so I tried others but when that came back so did I. Consistently over the years I have seen Trend Micro as a huge system resource grabber and seldom if ever have I seen it catch anything. I have walked in on highly infected systems to see Trend Micro scanning away finding nothing and never seen that with Nod32. Nod 32 is always the slimest profile and I am never reminded in anyway it is even there until it blocks a site. Uninstall Trend Micro on your slowest machine and run for a while. You will never put it back if you do!

Ok, I will give it another chance when our package deal expires in some months, thanks.

Let me know if you have any issues Mike.