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Computer Repair Sacramento - Knowledge Base: how to disable antivirus temporarily in Windows or turn off antivirus software. The question of how to disable antivirus temporarily in Windows 7, Windows 8, or even Windows Vista or Windows XP comes up from time to time. It seems like you would want antivirus always protection, but in reality, there are good and necessary reasons to temporarily disable antivirus software Windows. For example: antivirus software can interfere with legitimate software installation. In fact, some installation routines say to disable antivirus before installing. Another reason, a detected file could an antivirus false positive, where it's not really a virus at all. Also, some users notice that, at times or always, antivirus slows down internet browsing or antivirus slows down computer. Perhaps you have very resource intensive task to perform. To speed that up, you may disable antivirus temporarily, turn that antivirus off!
How to Disable Antivirus Temporarily in Windows
The following instruction describes how to turn off antivirus temporarily in Windows, not how to uninstall antivirus software. The list is not exhaustive. One common thread for disable antivirus software is the windows system tray. Where is the system tray? It's located in the lower right of your screen, the small icons next to the clock. NOTE regarding hidden system tray icons Windows: Sometimes not all icons are displayed; rather, an arrow is at the end of the notification area. To see all the system tray icons, simply click the arrow and it will expand to show all.
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Computer Repair Knowledge Base: Recently encountered a Poweliks Virus Removal issue; symptoms included many dllhost.exe Com Surrogate processes in task manager, and, when booting, a Powershell has Stopped Working error message. In addition, the Windows 7 computer running extremely slow and low on memory, and the user experienced frequent Internet Explorer freezes where there would just be an internet explorer white screen for minutes then everything would load normally. Finally, found the windows temp directory full of thousands of temp files. Interestingly enough, some folders in the Windows temp directory had a Windows temp directory structure like appdata local folder or appdata roaming folder. Unsure if this last is part of the poweliks virus or just normal behavior for the installed software, but it was unusual and I haden't noticed it before. When I attempted to clean temp files Windows 7, ccleaner stuck on temporary internet files. For my Computer Repair Knowledgebase, here are the steps
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Computer Repair Knowledge Base: What is causing the s32evnt1.dll Windows XP error which says s32evnt1.dll an installable virtual device driver failed dll initialization.
While working on a slow Windows XP laptop recently, the client asked how to improve computer performance windows xp? I recommended to remove Norton Internet Security and the constant guard xfinity norton software. By switching to a lighter antivirus software, the laptop became much more responsive. However, this client runs some MS Dos software for Windows XP and began getting the following error:
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Computer Repair Knowledge Base: How to Remove Windows XP Startup Password and complete Syskey Password Removal. On a recent service call, found that a scammer had called this client, smooth talked their way into gaining access to their computer using Teamviewer, then, when the individual refused to pay, locked the […]