Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Main Forums
Automation, Cinema, Computers, Television Forum
How To Waste 4 Hours (Thanks Windoze & Avg)
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support Talk Electrician Forum:
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Message
<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 353332" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>Some interesting points.</p><p></p><p>Yes installing some form of Linux was on my mind, initially fearing it may be a failing HDD or something terminal. but that wouldn't be without it's own problems. for some while now the DVD drive on the lappy has been dead. That only becomes an issue for installing something radical like a completely new OS. As long as windoze works it can link to the 'net for downloading stuff and can access the shared drives on the desktop pc. So if it had been terminal I would have first had to repair / replace the duff DVD drive.</p><p></p><p>All the time we have had this lappy I have bemoaned it. It has always been slow. It always seemed like it was "busy" doing something. The HDD activity light hardly ever went out. At times it would grind to a complete halt, sometimes for a minute or two and it just would not respond. It has always had AVG installed since we first got it. I had always been "educated" that you need some form of anti virus software, and I had no problems with AVG years ago on my old windows 98 PC.</p><p></p><p>But now this lappy has been relieved of the AVG bloatware, it is a different machine. Boot up times are remarkably quicker. When idle, the HDD activity light hardly blinks at all. Everything is so much quicker. So all my past complaint about how carp and bloated Vista is, should really have been directed at how bloated AVG was.</p><p></p><p>We will let it run as it is for a while using "just" Microsoft security essentials. Perhaps a weekly scan with Malware Bytes to check it hasn't picked up anything nasty.</p><p></p><p>There seems to be a lot of lessons here. the main one is do we NEED any extra anti virus stuff over what comes packaged with windoze?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 353332, member: 6969"] Some interesting points. Yes installing some form of Linux was on my mind, initially fearing it may be a failing HDD or something terminal. but that wouldn't be without it's own problems. for some while now the DVD drive on the lappy has been dead. That only becomes an issue for installing something radical like a completely new OS. As long as windoze works it can link to the 'net for downloading stuff and can access the shared drives on the desktop pc. So if it had been terminal I would have first had to repair / replace the duff DVD drive. All the time we have had this lappy I have bemoaned it. It has always been slow. It always seemed like it was "busy" doing something. The HDD activity light hardly ever went out. At times it would grind to a complete halt, sometimes for a minute or two and it just would not respond. It has always had AVG installed since we first got it. I had always been "educated" that you need some form of anti virus software, and I had no problems with AVG years ago on my old windows 98 PC. But now this lappy has been relieved of the AVG bloatware, it is a different machine. Boot up times are remarkably quicker. When idle, the HDD activity light hardly blinks at all. Everything is so much quicker. So all my past complaint about how carp and bloated Vista is, should really have been directed at how bloated AVG was. We will let it run as it is for a while using "just" Microsoft security essentials. Perhaps a weekly scan with Malware Bytes to check it hasn't picked up anything nasty. There seems to be a lot of lessons here. the main one is do we NEED any extra anti virus stuff over what comes packaged with windoze? [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Main Forums
Automation, Cinema, Computers, Television Forum
How To Waste 4 Hours (Thanks Windoze & Avg)
Top