I believe the people who designed anti-malware software understand when it needs to load during the Startup sequence. If they didn’t put it first, there is probably a reason why.
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Three tips to make Windows 8 less annoying
Windows 8 introduced a few new ways to do things and hid some of the old and familiar ones. I’ll show you three things that will make living with Windows 8 easier without installing anything at all.