How to slow down an X64x2 processor...
install McAffee’s Suite.
Seriously, yesterday I made the biggest performance/stability change to my new laptop. I decided to take 15 minutes and uninstall McAfee and install my standard antivirus app (which at the moment is Avast… but if they screw up they’ll be gone, too).
I can now reboot the laptop in under 10 minutes. Weird phantom things don’t keep other computers on my network from accessing the laptop (in other words McAfee’s firewall which when you go to disable it it proclaims that there is a less intrusive mode that will block nothing… liars! <grin />)
I now no longer...