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Malwarebytes is not an antivirus replacement. It is an anti-malware application. I use it strictly as a cleaner, ie only used on an infected system. I also often rename it before running. I like it a lot, and it may be good to run once in a while, but definately do not recommend you have it do an active scan.
Microsoft has a free antivirus program that is less resource hungry than Panda. Also, MSE is not only free, but it is not a "limited" free version where you have to pay to get the real version. Only drawback is that MSE will NOT run if you have Windows Updates turned off. If you can live with them turned on (I have it set for download but let me choose what to install) then this should work out for you.
Thanks for the recommendation. I totally forgot MS had a antivirus program and didn't realize Malwarebytes was just an anti-malware app. I'll give MSE a try. I have auto update, but I'll use the setting you use so I can be picky about what gets installed.
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Has anyone here tried this program? I'm looking for a new anti-virus/malware/spyware program. I've been a loyal panda antivirus user for years, but the new 2010 version slows down my laptop. Too much stuff running in the background and I reccently encountered the malware vista security 2010 and panda couldn't remove it. I'm also looking to ditch lavasoft ad-aware as ever version past 6.0 has been awful. Too buggy and has too much running in the background lke panda. I would prefer to have an all in one program. Is Malwarebytes a good choice?
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Thanks cluberti! That was part of the issue. After I disabled compat view through the group policy I don't get the error messages on websites anymore, but windows update still asks to install it. Maybe it will go away after a few restarts.
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Hi everyone,
Lately I'm getting a error message with IE8. Everytime I check my e-mail or go to certain sites it tell me to upgrade my browser to IE8, but IE8 is already installed. Even windows update tells me to install IE8. Why is that? I downloaded it from microsoft's site, but i get a message saying that a newer version of IE8 is installed (I attached the pic). Is there a way to remove IE8 so I can re-install it?
BTW...I'm running vista ultimate sp2 32-bit version.
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Mariah Carey - I Want To Know What Love Is
Rare are the occasions a cover is actually better than the original. This is one such case.
YES! I couldn't agree more. As for me, The last few songs I played were:
Toni Braxton-Please
Vanessa Williams The Comfort Zone (Radio Remix)
Whitney Houston-I Belong To You
Jon B.-They Don't Know
Mariah Carey-Emotions
En Vogue-Riddle
Tisha Campbell-Love's Got A Hold On Me
Janet Jackson-All For You
Brandy-Sittin' Up In My Room
Lisa Fischer-How Can I Ease The Pain
Tevin Campbell-Another Way
P!nk-Love Is Such A Crazy Thing
Taylor Dayne-Love Will Lead You Back
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You can buy & download from the Microsoft store can you not?
I didn't see it there. They're shoving 7 down people's throats. I typed in vista business and got directed to windows 7.
If your laptop came with Windows 7 pre-installed check out your bios slic version, if its 2.0 or 2.1 there are ways to downgrade and even activate a lower copy of Windows (in your case Vista)
I checked and my bios slic version is 2.1.
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Skip Vista and go with 7
Yea a good idea is to get a Technet or MSDN account, its a little more than the price of a single Vista license and with it you get ALL operating systems to choose from not just one
It came with win 7 home premium and it was awful. I couldn't do anything with it. I made the win 7 restore cds, wiped it out and went back to vista.
Hmmm....didn't realize technet was so cheap. I also thought it wasn't open to the public. Don't know why, but I did. I'll check into that.
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Without going Open License, Volume License or purchasing an MSDN/Technet subscription, I am not aware of how you can. Only possibility is if you can find an NFR copy, which you aren't allowed to pay for. All I know is that a retail or OEM COA is not allowed to be sold without accompanied media.
Ok. I kinda figured that, but I held on to a glimmer of hope lol. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Is there a way to purchase a vista business license without buying the dvd? I have my retail vista ultimate dvd so I could install it from there. I need it because my new laptop runs slow using ultimate and I don't want to use what came with it the pc (windows 7 home premium).
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If by recoverable, you mean deletable, yes, easily. What's preventing you to delete it ? Moving your first partition to reclaim that space involves 3rd party softwares, be it "offline" imaging (Ghost and others) and/or repartitionning (Partition Magic, GPartEd or others).
Be aware after that partition is gone or tempered with, getting it "back to factory state" is easier to say than to do, read this oversized thread about recovering your partition as in really "recovering" it if you're interrested. But it might be too late already depending on what Vista did. But why Vista... we hope you know.
I'm now waiting for some member to point all the errors in my post.
Thanks for the link to the thread. I will look through it. I have Acronis True Image 2009. I'll see if that will help me delete it .The hidden partition is before the C:\ drive so vista didn't do anything to it. Itr wasn't visible when I installed the os. It still has some files on it. As to why I downgraded to vista...I'm actually one of the few people on earth that like vista. All my software works (unlike windows 7) and it seems faster to me than 7 does. Don't know why, but it does.
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Hi everyone
Got a new Acer Laptop last night and after I made my backups and downgraded to vista I noticed that there is a 12GB partition can't be accessed. I read online to use an xp cd to delete it, but when I run it I get the BSOD everytime. Is there another way to access this space? I have all the restore cds and the acer napp cd needed to return it to factory state if I need to send it back to acer or use windows 7, but I don't plan on doing that anytime soon.
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Buying 2x1GB sticks of Kingston RAM for my Shuttle only cost $88 for both of them! Yes you can get cheap parts in Aus only in this one shop which is run by Asians, has no customer service (except warranty repairs) and gets big lines outside the stores all the time. In all the shops near where I live its a full $100 for some generic no brander of only 1GB with no installation or anything. Complete waste. I bought 2x512MB sticks a while ago off eBay but one didn't work and neither did the second one they sent me so they just refunded me half the cost of the RAM and I just got to keep the one that worked. Was a bit of mucking around though with me having to send the faulty sticks back twice.
It's kinda the same way here. The local shop here offered me very generic memory. Installing and testing it was $85/hr with a 2 hour minimum. I may bump this one up to 1GB of memory if my mom needs it. Best buy was having a great sale and I got a new acer laptop last night so this dell can be used for her personal or business needs.
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@puntoMX: Thanks for the newegg link. I didn't see those when I looked a few days ago.
@cluberti: That's just selling them. No testing or installation at all. I think it comes with a 30 day warranty, but that's it.
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Also in 200 (rare) and 266.
@ adrian2055, don't order them online that would be high risk if you did so as it's almost 70% certain it will not work, go to a computer-shop and let them test the memory before you leave the shop. It could be that the notebook doesn't "see" the whole 1GB module or doesn't boot up.
Good thing you told me this. I was gonna buy 2 1GB sticks on eBay for $55. I checked at my local PC shops and only 1 shop carried them. They said that a 1GB stick cost $95 if that have it in stock
. There's no way in h**l I'm paying that. 2 sticks would cost $190 before sales tax. I only paid $175 for the laptop. Oh dear. I don't know if this thing will function on vista or windows 7 with 2 512MB sticks.0 -
1GB sticks are a pain in the *ss when it comes to DDR1
+that's an other $30 at least.
Why are the 1GB DDR sticks such a pain in the a**? I was going to put 2 1GB sticks in this laptop so I could max it out. Is there something I need to know before I purchase them?
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Thanks for all the great input guys. I installed vista basic for now since I haven't upgraded the laptop yet and things are workingt out ok. I will move up to a higher version when the upgrades are complete. What size hard drive do you thing is best for vista or win 7? I have an external drive so I only want to get enough space for the os to run smoothly. I had one of these laptops before and I think I had to either use a registry hack or use an external program like yamicsoft vista manager to force it.
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Home Premium or Pro.
It doesn0t make adifference, AFAIK, it depends on the features you want/need.
Cool.
I know ultimate would be a disaster.Why?
jaclaz
I think ultimate would require a higher powered pc than this one. It probably wouldn't run very fast on this pc.
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Ok, What version of windows 7 would be best? Home Premium or Pro. I know ultimate would be a disaster.
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I'm talking about the light on the actual power supply. Nothing happens when I push the power button. No flashing lights and the fan doesn't spin.
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I purchased a Dell Inspiron 5150 at a resale shop yesterday and I wanted to get some advice on how to get the most out of it.
Here are the settings:
Intel Pentium 4 3.06 GHz Processor
30GB Hard Drive (Upgrading to at least a 80GB drive soon)
512MB Ram (Can go up to 2GB and will upgrade it asap)
nVidia Geforce FX Go5200 Graphics Card
NEC DVD+RW Drive
1TB Western Digita External Hard Drive
What OS should I use to get the most out of this laptop without overheating it? Could Vista of Windows 7 possibly work on this pc?
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A family member asked me to look at her pc to see if it was dead. The green light on the power supply lights up when I plug it in, but when I hit the power button nothing happens. Can this be fixed Is this pc dead?
The pc is an HPa1213w Desktop.
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That's what I was afraid of. All my personal files are on another hard drive. I just didn't wanna reconfigure everything and driver hell is not what I want. Thanks for confirming this for me.
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Hey guys,
Quick question. I'm getting a new desktop in a few days and I wanted to know something. Is it ok to move the current hard drive from my dell desktop into my new shuttle pc without re-installing everything? The hard drive has vista ultimate retail version installed, all of my programs and group policy settings configured and I don't want to waste several hours re-installing and re-configuring everything. Is this wise or should I re-install everthing when I get the desktop?
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Thank You!
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. There's no way in h**l I'm paying that. 2 sticks would cost $190 before sales tax. I only paid $175 for the laptop. Oh dear. I don't know if this thing will function on vista or windows 7 with 2 512MB sticks.
svchost and idle process killing my pc
in Windows Vista
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Lately vista has been acting a fool with me and I don't know why. System idle process and svchost.exe use 50% of my resources if I do the smallest things like access my externel hard drive, play an mp3/video with realplayer or use IE8. Sometimes it does this as soon as I get to my desktop. I dual-booted windows 7 tonight to see if it does the same thing and it uses 98% of my resources with only my factory issued drivers installed and updated bios. I don't have any viruses/spyware/malware on the vista install and windows 7 is a fresh install with no programs. I tried 32-bit and 64-bit for both operating systems and the same problem persists. What causes this?
PC Specs:
Acer Aspire 5532 Laptop (Manufactured Jan 2010)
AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 1.6 GHz
512KB L2 Cache
3 GB Ram
160GB Hard Drive
15.6 Acer CineCrystyal LCD
ATI Radeon HD3200 Graphics Card
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Optiarc 8X DVD RW AD-7700S ATA Device
Atheros AR5B93 Wireless Network Adapter
Atheros AR8132 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
Realtek Card Reader
Realtek HD Audio Device