I had recently purchased McAfee to replace my Bitdefender after the subscription for the latter expired. I decided to try McAfee, and the price for the McAfee product was right. Ever since I had my McAfee product installed, my laptop has slowed to a crawl. It dramatically slowed down all of my social media, it slowed down my graphics software. It was so bad whenever I was in my social media, I would type something and I would be forced to wait for the type to show up. I have typed entire paragraphs without seeing the type come up until almost a minute or two later. Then, I would press ENTER for the post to be sent, only to see it take forever to do so. The software even disconnected my laptop from the internet time and time again. I was forced to keep re-connecting. With my knowledge of computers, I was certain McAfee was the culprit, so this evening I decided to uninstall the product. After I completely uninstalled the McAfee product, my computer is now blazing fast. I have yet to experience any slowdown. My social media is blazing fast, as is my use of graphics applications. McAfee is a staggering resource-hog. I should like to be able to do my banking, etc. I will not do so without any form of protection. Certainly not with Windows Defender. Seriously? Not a chance. I should like to find a way to tweak McAfee such that it does not turn my computer into a useless slow-poke. Other than the hogging of my laptop's resources, it is rather a good piece of protection. Any suggestions? Otherwise, I am dumping my McAfee software. I should like to prevent the need to do so as I paid money for the software. I know I would never get my money back.