As a side note...
people over and over again complain about FSX and P3D being slowed down, stuttering, their addons being blocked because of false positives, controllers don't work properly or are lagging and so on... Most of the time it can easily be traced down to 3rd party anti virus programs that have been purchased for a lot of money. Those AV programs do what? They block programms, they delete parts of the addons, slowing down the computer (Kaspersky is a perfect example for that, Norton too).. blocking, slowing down, deleting.. that's exactly what a virus does. It's up to everyone himself to pay for a virus, but actually win defender is the best security application on the market for windows by now. and it comes with win10 for free. And it is easily to manage. Exclusions work perfectly. Go and purchase expensive AV programs, but the chance is very high, that P3D is hardly to use. AVSIM is full of threads where people recognize, that, as soon as they deinstall their 3rd party "security" they can suddenly use their computers as intended. The PMDG support and FSL support (at least that's where I read the forums) repeatingly tell people to get rid of that stuff and use the defender et voilà... P3D runs free of stutters, crashes and lags.
I used to have Kaspersky with Win7 and FSX and was wondering why I couldn't use A2A airplanes.. The controls had a delay of around half a second. until I found out that Kaspersky checked every signal coming from my yoke, built stutters, peaks or, as one of my personal highlights simply corrupted my weather addon at that time as the wxr download was suspicious to come from an unsafe source. And this program is called an award winner...
typical threats on the internet are filtered very well by win defender. And as long as you use your brain and don't click on links in emails that pretend to confirm your amazon/paypal/whatever account and don't spend your leasure time on ????? or pirate sites you're very safe from trojans and other malware. that's what does the trick to have a clean computer. Not buying strange anti virus programs that claim to find more threats on your storage than others and after they ran nothing works anymore... ^^
One thing I really liked about it is that it seems to streamline a lot of the operations I do on a computer. I finally decided I was better off with Windows 10 than trying to find and install a copy of Windows 7.
It fell over sometime during the night, so I've re-started it and it has about an hour and a half to go, if "Microsoft time" is anything to go by. I'm still on ADSL2.
