Software to avoid

Thanx.

avg will reset every day and needs you no ignore all programs intell you tell it other wise

Jason said:

You can add BitDefender 2009 to the list. I don't think that BD '09 works well under 64-bit Vista and W7.. on both OS's they eliminate my use of the internet/network (this happens after a while, it's not immediately apparent), it's like a driver crashes or something. BD '09 works well under Vista 32-bit, though.

Maybe someone that's running W7 32-bit can try and see if it works for a few hours? :)

Another for the list is EASEUS Partition Manager -- it borked my W7 partition, and called for a reinstall for W7. It failed on expanding the partition..

about a month ago i was installing BD2009. it created some kind of a ghost user named BitDefenderComm which couldnt be deleted + i couldnt use bitdefender firewall nor windows defender. i had to use a system restore.

I was asking in customer support and they told me that bitdefender probably hadnt acces to some windows files and that messed up my system. i tried to install via administrator account and it worked perfectly.

...and the lived happily ever after.

And Paragon partition manager screwed my computer. I had to format whole disk.

The BSOD from Quicksys Regdefrag have better solution than reinstall. The program makes backup of registry files in C:\Windows\System32\config. These files: COMPONENTS, DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE and SYSTEM must be deleted and backups must be renamed (just delete extensions). All operations can be done from other OS or live CD.

Hi,

Quicksys works fine if the system and boot partitions are the same.

For many people, the first partition will be Vista and that will be the system partition as well. It is fine to regdefrag that - remember to set it temporarily as the default , so the defragger boots back into it to complete.

If the 7 partition is the system partition it should be fine on 7 too.

Defragging the registry across drives will cause BCD issues (with the reg defraggers currently available).

I experimented with Glary regdefrag - defragging my second boot partition (i.e. it is not the system partition ) - startup repair required.

Hope it helps

SIW2

online armor keeps Office 2007 from working properly in W7 7057 build.

Thats not office malfunctioning though.

Master said:

avg will reset every day and needs you no ignore all programs intell you tell it other wise

So in other words better to avoid avg.

swarfega, no it is not office going south it is "online armor" being mischievous. the reason i "know" is because i did a before, during, and after test. so before "online armor" was installed Office 2007 was screaming fast. during "online armor" i had issues galore only could open word, then after uninstall all is well again. that meaning i can use power point, excel, windows publisher, picture viewer et al.
btw i have 0 issues with AVG-Free Edition. Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware work fine also.