I had my computer re-furbished recently. Somehow the guy that did it copied everything from my old Hard Drive to the new one, which doesn't make too much sense, but anyway, when I did the full system recovery, I did all the windows/microsoft updates. I think I downloaded the MSE manually. Now my computer is slower than a turtle. I pulled up the task manager and saw: MsMpEng.exe running anywhere between 40,000k - (mem usage) 150,000k. I looked it up and saw it was Defender and that Security Essentials was supposed to delete it.I looked in the add/remove programs, not there. I looked in Msconfig, not there. I saw on one of these forums to go into regedit, do the F3 search thing, found 3 of them and deleted them, but it's still in my task manager. How do I delete this please?1 person needs an answerI do too

"Dillon McHugh" wrote in message news:8adb03fb-b14e-4e26-90b4-272c5c147318...I had my computer re-furbished recently. Somehow the guy that did it copied everything from my old Hard Drive to the new one, which doesn't make too much sense, but anyway, when I did the full system recovery, I did all the windows/microsoft updates. I think I downloaded the MSE manually. Now my computer is slower than a turtle. I pulled up the task manager and saw: MsMpEng.exe running anywhere between 40,000k - (mem usage) 150,000k. I looked it up and saw it was Defender and that Security Essentials was supposed to delete it.I looked in the add/remove programs, not there. I looked in Msconfig, not there. I saw on one of these forums to go into regedit, do the F3 search thing, found 3 of them and deleted them, but it's still in my task manager. How do I delete this please?The version of Defender that you are looking at here is embedded within MSE - XP does not come with Defender.You will need to completely uninstall MSE and then reinstall it, for things to have any chance of working right.I too have had some systems that the crawling appears on - it seems to fix itself after a couple of days in most cases. I suspect that the cause is that the background scanner 'forgets' that it's supposed to be a background service, and doesn't let go when user-initiated programs are running. -- Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth

If you want your rabbit speed back, uninstall all of the Microsoft protection modules and switch to some more robust free modules.Uninstall it all, reboot and see how it looks, then decide if you want to stay with MS products or get some more robust free tools that are less of a burden. Common sense dictates that you do not leave your system with no protection for long - you just want to see if the snal like feauture go away when the MS products are not installed.The MS offerings are very weak, but it is better than nothing I guess... MS is not in the malicious software prevention, detection and removal business - that is not their job. You can find other free software from companies where that is there job and that is all they do. They are the experts, not MS.Or you can reinstall the MS stuff and say "it is like a turtle again" and live with it and the mediocre protection it offers.If you want to share your Startup items maybe we can help sort out some of the slowness, so please do this: Download and install CCleaner from here:http://www.piriform.com/ccleanerLaunch it and save the Startup information to a text file. To do that, click Tools, Startup, Save to text file... and save the startup information to your desktop (or someplace you can find it) open the file with a text editor, select all the text and paste the contents back here for analysis.Uninstall CCleaner later if you don't like it (most people seem to like it for it's other features).You can certainly have zero startup items in your configuration (like me). Please vote my posts as helpful so I can get lots of points. I am saving up for a pony!