Recent content by DavidMitchell_London

Many thanks to those who replied. Got Win 10 back and fully working! Many thanks indeed. David

I've been using Windows for years and never had a problem like this before. My Win 10 PC began to take ages to perform the simplest task, and I assumed the system had become corrupted. I decided (foolishly it seems) to change to Linux Mint but I don't like it (at all) and decided to try and...

I wholeheartedly agree with the previous poster: I do not trust Defender, and I am surprised that anyone would. Hence, I feel the need for a different firewall. And with regard to the earlier comment: "Windows Defender is all you need unless you habitually visit dodgy websites/torrents...

I decided to delete Comodo. Sad really, as it appeared to function smoothly apart from the issue of the ever-growing cmmdata file. What causes this? Why does Comodo not correct it (as other users complain about it)? And thirdly, what on earth is in that file? I have read messages left on the...

I have tried several Firewalls on my Win10 PC and the one that seemed(!) to be the least troublesome to run was Comodo. However, I now discover that of my 465 gig hard disc, nearly 420 gigs is occupied by Comodo! There is one file called cmmdata that is 419 gigs in size. To me, that is absurd...

Thanks.

Just one question. On looking at the list that Task Manager/Startup produces, Malwarebytes is not listed and yet it does begin at start up and also shows up in the bar in the bottom right-hand corner. So why doesn't this show up? (I took a snapshot but cannot see how to upload this)

Thank you!

Years ago I began to use a program called 'Codestuff Starter'* that showed a list of the programs that will automatically begun after booting. I found this to be extremely useful as programs sometimes start up when I did not want them to and Codestuff Starter allo wed me to remove them from the...