yeoman Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 hi just would like people input on good applications such as firewalls,,anti-virus etc that use low amount of ram.startup is quick etcfeedback would be great
G30 Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 (edited) hi just would like people input on good applications such as firewalls,,anti-virus etc that use low amount of ram.startup is quick etcfeedback would be greatIf you can be a bit more specific as to your computer specifications we may be able to not only recommend the software, but some other ideas to help speed up your computer.The more detail you give, the better the help will be! Edited October 20, 2005 by G30
Zxian Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 hi just would like people input on good applications such as firewalls,,anti-virus etc that use low amount of ram.startup is quick etcfeedback would be greatAV - F-Prot or NOD32*Firewall - Sygate*Bit Torrent - uTorrent*IM - Miranda (a bit buggy) or Trillian (not so quick startup on older systems)Music player - Foobar2000 or Winamp Lite*Browser - Opera*That should do you for a while... * = Apps that I use
prathapml Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 browser - hell yeah, opera download manager - Reget Deluxetorrents - uTorrentfirewall+antivirus+antispyware = ZoneAlarm SecuritySuiteMount virtual ISO images - Microsoft's own virtualCDimage editing, viewing - Paint.NET, irfanviewgame - tuxracerCD writing - CDBurnerXP ProMSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ messengers - Trillian BasicIRC chat - Trillian basic v3.1PDF viewing - Acrobat Reader 6.03 (with acrobat reader speedup, to cut out all the crap)Lightweight player - Winamp Pro 5.1 plus codecs for real, quicktime, etc, so that all formats WILL play in winamp itself - K-Lite mega codec packevery single one of these is the lightest, and despite that, best in its class!
Tarun Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 ZoneAlarm is a resource hog, especially on Win9x/ME. 80% resources, whereas Outpost firewall lets you have 95% free.Firewall - OutpostBrowser - Firefox with Firetune, about:config - browser.cache.memory.capacity = 16384AntiVirus - Avast! or e-Trust.
prathapml Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 With zonealarm securitysuite, you no more need a separate antivirus as it uses the best AV engine in business. Combined, its the lightest solution.Plus, who really cares about win9x/ME anymore
Tarun Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 The latest Outpost Pro has anti-spyware bundled with it, but one is never enough. It's still best to have MSAS, Ad-Aware and Spybot, along with CWShredder, SpywareBlaster and CCleaner. Plus HijackThis just in case.
Scubar Posted October 20, 2005 Posted October 20, 2005 Music player - Quintessential playerBittorent - µTorrentPDF - Foxit PDF ReaderHttp File Server - HfsFtp - FileZillaBrowser - Opera Instant Messenger - Messenger2 or TrillianImage Editing - XnView, Paint.NetImage Mounting - Daemon ToolsCD Burning - CDBurnerXP Procant think of anymore good ones right now
suryad Posted October 21, 2005 Posted October 21, 2005 (edited) Interesting software list especially from prathapml. Tuxracer?! hahahaI dont like Winamp for anything else other than music. For vid I use WMP for everything. But i have to download Quicktime separately for chatting thru Trillian Pro. And also there are some websites where QT vids dont show up thru QT alternative. Edited October 21, 2005 by suryad
Acatincho Posted October 23, 2005 Posted October 23, 2005 With zonealarm securitysuite, you no more need a separate antivirus as it uses the best AV engine in business. Combined, its the lightest solution.Plus, who really cares about win9x/ME anymore zonealarm?? no way
suryad Posted October 23, 2005 Posted October 23, 2005 Are you disagreeing or are you in utter disbelief that zonealarm has an av? Or are you trying to say zonealarm is a substandard product. Never tried the av myself but the firewall itself is awesome though I dont need a firewall meself.
prathapml Posted October 23, 2005 Posted October 23, 2005 Hmmm....Its probably, more related to the fact that ZoneAlarm offers a pretty high (yes I know it can be further complex too) level of control, that new-comers get scared away by.
Zxian Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 @prathapml - I think he was meaning that ZA isn't a "low resource" program.Regarding the level of control - that's the case with most "good" security software. I haven't used ZA in ages, but with Sygate, it's got a decent level of protection off the bat, and you can lock it down really, really tight. Same goes for Kerio. The thing that I really like about Sygate is the fact that it's a no-frills UI. No fancy graphics - no HTML bloat interfaces. Just the menus and buttons that you need to configure everything. With products like Norton and McAfee, you need to dig through 7 layers of menus and options to find some options... People simply assume that a pretty interface means better...
prathapml Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 Hmm.... ZA is sufficiently low-resource for me.Atleast better than Norton!In any case, an average of 12 MB that ZA takes up, if considered against the huge range of facilities it provides, should be quite good. Especially on today's specs with gigabytes of RAM...
wizardofwindows Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 i agree nortons interface is to much its like a windows setup program just to get to the settings kudos 4 kerio i use it.
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