Win98 System slowed by McAfee Internet Security 6 upgrade?

It may that the older windows will not handle the VS 6. Mcafee VS fully turned on (good) maybe be slower on start up/shut down then the older Mcafee, it is doing more. Mcafee has a support forum similiar to Dell's and some very sharp and hard workers (volunteers) online. Post to the VS 6 forum for the best results, they may move it from else where. I am sure if you get it posted they will work with you if it is not a problem with the Win 3 and VS 6.

Good Luck

Jake02324,

Thanks for the reply, and the info.  I also went back, after my original post here, to the McAfee one-on-one tech support chat where they had earlier indicated to me that the Internet Security 6 was comparable to the Dell McAfee Security Center on our new Dell (again, not the one listed below).  It hadn't occurred to them to mention minimum requirements on the earlier chat, but I found out that they are Win98, IE5, 70MB disk space and 64MB RAM, with possibly 128MB for the latter being better.  The older system in question was bought in early 1998 with just 16MB SDRAM (expandable to 256MB), so it may be a case of now needing to add some memory (probably not a bad idea in and of itself).

Thanks for the come back, always good to get an answer from a problem suggestion!

Hey, I appreciate someone responding with helpful information!  Incidentally, I found out shortly after my earlier reply to you that the info that I had was old, from a quote for a system earlier in the buying process.  The actual system purchased had 64MB.  Also, the README file for the McAfee Security Center said the minimum requirements were only 32MB.  But since Win98 uses about 32MB (per support for the system), that pretty much means nothing left after the system and the McAfee.  So I purchased another 128MB, and will be installing it this week.  Anyway, thanks again for the help.

Looks like it will be a very good system. Have fun and good luck!