How to Temporarily Turn Off McAfee Anitvirus on Windows
How to Temporarily Turn Off McAfee Anitvirus on Windows – Windows users must have experienced the incident of accidentally downloading the McAfee antivirus program from the internet. It’s also possible to install two antiviruses at once, one of which is McAfee on your computer. Then feel confused about how to turn off the McAfee antivirus temporarily so that it doesn’t always scan incoming data so that it interferes with the display.
In this article, we will discuss how to temporarily disable McAfee antivirus. The methods below will turn off the McAfee antivirus for some time until the user reactivates it. Here are the easy steps:
1. Open McAfee Antivirus
The first thing the user must do, of course, is to open the McAfee antivirus program. For windows computer devices, usually this antivirus program will appear in the ‘Show More’ menu. The ‘Show More’ menu is in the form of an arrow which is usually next to the battery indicator. But if it’s not there, the user can open it through the menu by typing ‘McAfee’ in the search field.
2. Open McAfee Total Protection
Right click on the mouse so that the options appear again, select ‘Open McAfee Total Protection’. Usually this option is at the top of the menu that appears. Just wait a few seconds until the McAfee menu window appears.
3. Open McAfee Settings
In the menu window of the McAfee antivirus program, there will be an icon in the form of a circular gear which is usually located at the top right of the menu window. This icon is similar to a typical Settings icon. Click this icon to bring up a menu of other options below it.
In the options menu that appears, users can choose ‘Real Time Scanning’. This Real Time Scanning feature often makes McAfee antivirus suddenly appear which scans data even without being asked.
4. Turn off the Real Time Scanning feature
Next to the ‘Real Time Scanning’ menu there is usually an option that indicates whether this feature is active or not. It can also be a toggle ON and OFF. Click on the ‘Real Time Scanning’ feature menu, then another menu will appear that will ask the user to confirm once again. Are you sure you want to turn off the ‘Real Time Scanning’ feature. At this stage the user can select the ‘Turn Off’ option at the bottom right of the menu window.
5. Determine How Long The User Will Turn Off McAfee
The next thing that McAfee’s antivirus program will confirm is how long it will take the user to shut down the program’s performance. There will be a text box that the user can select. Options range of time to turn off the program is also provided very diverse. Starting from being turned off in minutes like 15 minutes, 20 minutes, to an hour.
At the bottom there will be an option ‘Never’, although the user selects ‘Never’ this option will not turn off McAfee permanently. Because users can reactivate it if they really need it.
6. Turning off other features too
In the previous menu, apart from Real Time Scanning, there are also other features that users need to turn off. If you really want to stop the activity of the McAfee antivirus program on your computer for a while. To maximize it, it is better for users to turn off all McAfee features in the ‘PC Security’ program.
That’s how to turn off McAfee antivirus temporarily on a computer with a Windows operating base. Antivirus programs are still useful programs for computer device security. This method will not make users worry about losing the antivirus because the feature can be reactivated if the user wants.
