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Why does my antivirus scan faster in my guest account?
I have Microsoft Security Essentials for my antivirus. And over the last couple of years it has gotten to where it takes forever to run a full scan. Like 12 hours to run a full scan. It didn't use to take that long, more like 30 minutes or so when I first started using it. It just got slower and slower over time. I've even tried reinstalling the program, but that didn't work. There just seems to be something slowing it down.
Today I tried to see if I could run the program from the guest account instead of my administrator account. Instead of 12 hours it took around 7 hours. Any idea why it runs faster in the guest account?
I left it running in the guest account and switched users to my administrator account. I did my work on that account while the scan ran in the guest account. And it took about half the time it normally takes. Any idea why?