OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[dpatnod]

Well I successfully removed Norton from both of my puters and installed AVG and Zonealarm on both.

Took a lot longer than expected but, they are both now protected and operating normally.

My question is did you notice any better performance without Norton?

The last time I had a Norton product on one of my machines was in the Pentium 1 days. It was such a performance drag, and I have been biased against Norton since then. Feel only a tiny bit less opposed to McAfee. Hate em both. AVG got a little shaky a couple of years ago, but really seems to run well in the 2013 edition and after. Zonealarm... rock solid as always.

I always select the advanced / custom install and do not install the toolbars (God I hate those things), or remove the toolbar after the program is installed.

[The Ken]

How about a synopsis so I don't have to listen to a podcast?

cats and dogs living together

[The Ken]

I hate to chime in as a Linux nerd, but on those older laptops Linux Mint or Lubuntu works well. You can download a Live CD to test it out. It is good for basic web surfing, email, etc.

There are a couple of Antivirus vendors that have committed to staying up to date on XP, and their intrusion detection will be updated as soon as a known exploit is released. This might be a good way to mitigate your risk for awhile.

but introducing a kmart os to a classic windows user is like asking a person to switch from an automatic transmission to a manual transmission. 1 out of 10 users are ok with it.

If you run XP it is time to move to win 7, after all sales of win 7 ends after oct of this year then you will be forced to the garbage they call windows 8.

[Panoptes]

I hate my new Window 8.1

Hopefully the first update will make this more like XP (rest in peace Toshiba Qosmio w/ XP)

I know....I know.....

[The Ken]

got to ninite.com and get the free windows classic shell

you will be able to click classic shell off the windows logo or where the win 7 start orb was, then you will see the classic shell. And it is free


Anybody not familiar with ninite.com it will download the latest version off all the common free apps windows users like. Great website to get the free common apps.

Plus all most of the free AV and malware applications.

[The Ken]

sorry classic START under utilities

[LionsFanInJapan]

Aren't they adding that in the next update?

[edindetroit]

Re: OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

Aren't they adding that in the next update?

Yes, they are.

[Malto Marko]

My question is did you notice any better performance without Norton?

The last time I had a Norton product on one of my machines was in the Pentium 1 days. It was such a performance drag, and I have been biased against Norton since then. Feel only a tiny bit less opposed to McAfee. Hate em both. AVG got a little shaky a couple of years ago, but really seems to run well in the 2013 edition and after. Zonealarm... rock solid as always.

I always select the advanced / custom install and do not install the toolbars (God I hate those things), or remove the toolbar after the program is installed.

Well, have not been on the home computer yet but the work one was kind of slow yesterday but it is humming right along today.

I suspect the slowness yesterday was because AVG did a full scan and that is one of the things I disliked most about Norton was when it was doing a scan, things really dogged down.

I am going to remove the ZoneAlarm toolbars.

Kinda funny though. For some reason even though both of my machines run XP, seems there is a difference when using the same browser (I almost exclusively use Firefox). There are subtle differences in the way they appear and the way they operate. I believe they are both the same version because I do update them when notified an update is available.

[Coop]

OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

8 on anything non-touch is just awful. 7 x64 is the sweet spot.


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[Tony G]

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[dpatnod]

Well, have not been on the home computer yet but the work one was kind of slow yesterday but it is humming right along today.

I suspect the slowness yesterday was because AVG did a full scan and that is one of the things I disliked most about Norton was when it was doing a scan, things really dogged down.

I am going to remove the ZoneAlarm toolbars.

Kinda funny though. For some reason even though both of my machines run XP, seems there is a difference when using the same browser (I almost exclusively use Firefox). There are subtle differences in the way they appear and the way they operate. I believe they are both the same version because I do update them when notified an update is available.

They are all going to bog down a bit when scanning. I just found Norton seems to hurt performance at all times.

[Malto Marko]

This machine is flying today.

Haven't been on the one at home since I did the downloads.

That will be remedied shortly.

[Malto Marko]

The home puter is flying too.

[DanO]

Good to hear, Malto.