Quote Originally Posted by Xiahou View Post
So I uninstalled it. It improved the post-login somewhat, not night and day though. Meh.

I still feel somewhat "naked" without antivirus- but I just have to remind myself that I can't remember the last time MSE actually detected anything, if ever in the years that I've used it.
I came across a very good tip for fast logging in which made a big difference to my set-up.

Run msconfig, and go to the boot tab. Make the 'timeout' 3 seconds, and go on advanced options, then make it so it uses all your cores (I got a quad-core, so 4) and enable it to use maximum memory.