This is the way. The last time I looked at Windows computers at Best Buy a year ago, anything mid-level and below was almost unusable because McAfee was using

This is the way. The last time I looked at Windows computers at Best Buy a year ago, anything mid-level and below was almost unusable because McAfee was using all the CPU. I bought a Windows laptop (wanted to game with a modern-ish GPU). Step 1 was uninstall McAfee, and turn on Windows Defender for some modicum of protection. There are error popups for software I haven't installed when it boots. My parents have a new Windows computer which was showing popups advertising an extended warranty when I visited this weekend. A fresh install of Win10 from the Microsoft ISO is very different from the typical factory configuration found on new hardware.