Anyone Using Vista?

cj10jeeper said:
Real interesting thread.

I'm not a system developer, just need my pc's do get on with it while I do real work.

Purchased a new Sony Vaio dual core 2ghz and 2g ram and it should be quick, but Vista has become a real pain for me.

It's pretty and I recognise where most things are but in daily use It's a challenge. Conflicts, failing to recognise half my hardware, so many idiot screens to allow me to use anything. I'm not even the owner of my own documents any longer...

Collectively the preinstalled Norton 360, Defender and IE7 contrive to stop almost anythng I'd like to do.

I may well rip it all up and install my trusty XP pro :headbang:
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The first thing I would do is get rid of Norton. What a system resource hog.

I left Norton years ago. My primary Anti-Virus on a Windows box is Nod32. Way faster, uses less system resources. The complete install file is 12Megs, not 250Megs like Norton. It also rates higher than Norton...

Just my 2cents
 
Did not want vista but my new Dell came with it, looked into changing back to XP but decided to try it first, no real problems, only the trial Mcaffee would not let AOL work, got rid of Mcaffee and now ok I even loaded some old games and they work ok so up to now no problems.
henry1
 
I have Vista on my new Toshiba laptop. Too many nanny programs must be disabled. First to go was Mcafee. Very annoying. I prefer my iMac with OSX.
 
Shipkiller that's a great point and I was already on the verge of ditching Norton. You're not the first that tells me that if you lose Norton you lose many problems

I've been looking at and testing AVG and it seems good. I'll look at Nod32 and try that too.

I hope I can find something that keeps an average user clear of spam, hackers, spyware, etc. better than Norton and Defender.
 
I have NEVER had a virus infect any one of the six windows boxes in my house using Nod32. If I am in one of the really non-mainstream areas of the net, and something shows up, Nod32 intercepts it, notifies you, and then asks what do you want to do.

http://www.eset.com :thumbsup:

Buy online, dnload the software, install.

If you have a high bandwidth connection like me, it only took three secs to dnload.

Nod32 also automatically checks for new virus definitions every two hours, not once a week like Norton does...
 
Hmm, guess I will have to check that out. Haven't had a virus or any trojans in several years, but the kids are now starting to surf, so....
Thanks for the tip :thumbsup:
 
I concur with Shipkiller
NOD32 is a very superb program.
The only reason i'm not using it is I want cheap and AVG is on par with NOD32.
 
OOOH OOOH Let me be the first to stab myself in the eye!


I'm not brave enough to upgrade to SP3. The moment I do I'm sure i'll be spending 2 weeks fixing crap.
 
Well it can't be to increase sales of XP - my buddy recently checked out moving to 64-bit XP and discovered that you have to buy a copy of Vista and then pay a $5 downgrade fee to get a copy of 64-bit XP anymore.

Kinda makes you wonder how many of the Vista "sales" are actually being installed or just ones that were purchased so the user could get a new copy of XP.
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Hmm, a 100% true article. Thanks, I just sent this link to my friend who had to buy 2 copies of Vista because he got the wrong encryption version.
 
Crysis is awesome,,,had to upgrade to 8600GT's in SLI to get it going good though, my single 7600Gt just wasn't good enough :lol:
 
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