For the guys out there – my wife introduced me to this term. It happens when every top a lady is wearing has shoulder pads so that they end up looking like an NFL linebacker.
This week I was asked to fix a friend's computer. The complaint was, “It’s not doing anything.” I found that it was in fact doing lots of things, all at the same time and not doing any of it very well. It booted up quickly enough, but once I had logged in everything became agonizingly slow. I found that disabling the virus protection “fixed” it but it took 25 mintues to get there.
The real problem was that Trend Micro’s Titanium (which I help load in a drive by, over the shoulder, can you help request), McAfee and Fix It Pro were loaded hence the “shoulder pad buildup” comment. In this case we had system protect buildup. A quick trip to Trend’s perfomance troubleshooting page to download the McAfee uninstaller and I saw a vast improvement. Next I set scanning exceptions for the Fix It Pro software and we’re done. Everything’s back to normal.
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