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Re: The Official Windows 7 Thread
Posted: Sun 08 Nov, 2009 21.39
by marksi
Hymagumba wrote:nidave wrote:upon investigation it seems to be Kaspersky 2010 causing these - a patch is due out soon.
Oh really? I have that too and didn't have anything installed during the beta period due to the incompatibilities. I might try unsintalling it and having a shot with MS security essentials.
EDIT: Having uninstalled kaspersky, my PC is flying and MSN messages no longer pause for half a second before sending
Good riddance to it, I feel it was getting more and more bloated and annoying as time went on.
I'm using MS Security Essentials and it seems to do the job with no problem so far. AVG which started off ok is now nasty and bloated.
I did notice while in Currys today a sign to say that their Tech Guys will be very happy to install Norton on your PC. They will only charge you £19.99 (on top of the software purchase price) to completely ruin your machine.
Re: The Official Windows 7 Thread
Posted: Sun 08 Nov, 2009 22.06
by Pete
An interesting Kaspersky factoid: t'other half had been bad mouthing win7 since it came out for being slow on his PC and making it all grunt and what not.
Having uninstalled kaspersky himself, not only is it now flying, but his processor score went from 3.7 to 4.5!
Re: The Official Windows 7 Thread
Posted: Mon 09 Nov, 2009 10.18
by nidave
Hymagumba wrote:An interesting Kaspersky factoid: t'other half had been bad mouthing win7 since it came out for being slow on his PC and making it all grunt and what not.
Having uninstalled kaspersky himself, not only is it now flying, but his processor score went from 3.7 to 4.5!
glad I could help
Kaspersky is the reason I cant get a score, its a known issue - I like Kaspersky and going to see what the patch does before I decide. It is amazing they didnt spot that while testing it
Re: The Official Windows 7 Thread
Posted: Mon 09 Nov, 2009 11.05
by Pete
I've gone off them, I feel the performance of their program has dipped significantly and their boss has recently gone
on a strange little rant so I'm unsure where the company is heading.
Re: The Official Windows 7 Thread
Posted: Mon 09 Nov, 2009 11.06
by Gavin Scott
Should I not be using AVG either now then? Its it really all bloated?
Must admit my PC has been a bit sluggish the last 12 months.
Re: The Official Windows 7 Thread
Posted: Mon 09 Nov, 2009 12.12
by cwathen
I gave up on AVG shortly after version 8 came out, it may have been much better featured but I found it to have a huge performance hit (both in itself and on the rest of the system) compared to the previous version.
I've been on Comodo Internet Security for the past year or so. Out of the box, it too is a bloated and intrusive product, but if you turn off everything except the basic anti-virus, it's quite snappy.
Re: The Official Windows 7 Thread
Posted: Mon 09 Nov, 2009 17.54
by Alexia
AVG couldn't keep out one of the most invasive viruses - "Virut" a few months ago - so I swapped to Comodo which worked very well. I'm currently seeing out a free trial of McAfee which came with my new laptop.
Re: The Official Windows 7 Thread
Posted: Mon 09 Nov, 2009 19.17
by Andrew Wood
Gavin Scott wrote:Should I not be using AVG either now then? Its it really all bloated?
Must admit my PC has been a bit sluggish the last 12 months.
Get shot of it, Gavin. As has been said, from v8, AVG is just slow bloatware.
I've been using Avast anti-virus which seems to work pretty well for me.
Re: The Official Windows 7 Thread
Posted: Tue 10 Nov, 2009 12.56
by Pete
Indeed, AVG is far poorer than it was before.
http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essen ... ?mkt=en-gb
Microsoft Security Essentials however appears to be very very good
Meanwhile, my main pet hate about explorer - that the folder tree doesn't expand as you go - has been solved. Turns out there is an option if you right click an empty section of the folder list / or in folder options.
Why the hell its not on by default is beyond me.
Re: The Official Windows 7 Thread
Posted: Wed 11 Nov, 2009 11.45
by Andrew Wood
Received the W7 Ultimate 'Delegate Bag' this morning: 2 DVDs, T-Shirt, a couple of straps and the bag itself.
However, this came in an email a couple of days ago:
If you have visited the Expertzone Website recently you will know that we had to take the difficult decision to suspend the Windows 7 Specialist Programme and the entire rewards functionality until Monday 16th November.
Unfortunately, the UK Expertzone site was compromised through people who do not work for qualifying retailers finding a way of by-passing all of the current validation processes enabling them to receive the Windows 7 NFR and other rewards. Sadly this also affects Retail Sales Professionals that are not compromising the system and we are hoping that the following extra checks will allow us to resume normal service on Expertzone by Monday 16th November 2009.
After reviewing our existing validation processes, we have amended them with immediate effect and this is why you are receiving this e-mail so please read and action the following instructions very carefully.
All Current Expertzone users need to complete the two actions below by mid-day on Friday 13th November in order to have access by Monday 16th November 2009.
Re: The Official Windows 7 Thread
Posted: Wed 11 Nov, 2009 11.51
by Sput
Wow, so Windows 7 is practical and YOU can be stylish!