About to install W7 Professional

[Dave76]

Glad to hear you have Win7 running.

So far I have not had any problems with any update.

With image backups, you don't have to worry about a bad update. Just restore the last backup, should take about 15 minutes, and your running again.

I would do a backup at least every couple of weeks, most do it weekly, three months is a bit too long. It's your data and personal files, you know how much you add per week. Just a suggestion.

You can set your updates to download but wait until you tell it to install them, this will give you more control over them.
Open 'Updates' then on the left side click 'Change Settings'.

With image backups, for most people RAID is not necessary.

I use Avast, and have never had a problem.

 

[Bill037]

Well that works I'm sure but no use if your drive dies ! Errrr they all do eventually or the data in it corrupts etc.

A fresh hard drive, is a very fast recovery from a complete wipeout.

It has happened to me 2 years ago and slidling in a different drive in a compatible craddle meant 5 minutes later I was running again.

And again in September this year, the UPS batteries died, it strobed enought to nearly kill the PC even corrupted the Bios settings ! That is shoddy behaviour from the UPS !

Now a question ! *******

If I walk away for a long time from the PC, W7 seems to power down the PC. How do I ask it not to ?

I've set anything I could find to 'never' but one more seems to be hinding deep within 'Control Panel'

Any thoughts very very welcome !



Tim

 

[Dave76]

That's a good disaster recovery plan.

I would guess the majority of people don't even backup, when they do it's on the same physical HD, if their HD fails they loose everything.
It's best to keep backups on a separate a physical HD, even better to keep a working OS on a separate HD, ready to go at a moments notice.

There is a good thread on sleep settings and hibernation with some links.

Sleep settings

Hope this helps.

Let us know if you have any more questions.

 

[Bill037]

That's a good disaster recovery plan.

I would guess the majority of people don't even backup, when they do it's on the same physical HD, if their HD fails they loose everything.
It's best to keep backups on a separate a physical HD, even better to keep a working OS on a separate HD, ready to go at a moments notice.

There is a good thread on sleep settings and hibernation with some links.

Sleep settings

Hope this helps.

Let us know if you have any more questions.

That looks just the biz !

I've printed it out and will have a 'tune' later this morning !

Many thanks !



Tim

 

[Dave76]

Your welcome.

Glad it helped

 

[Bill037]

Your welcome.

Glad it helped

It certainly did !

No instances since !

Many thanks !

: )

Tim

 

[Dave76]

Your welcome.

That's good news, thanks for letting us know the results.

 

[L.P.]

Good to know the problem is resolved,I was keeping an eye on it, If someone may need my help!!

Glad it went through nicely!

 

[Mercurial]

I suggest ESET AV + windows firewall

 

[Bill037]

I suggest ESET AV + windows firewall

How do you setup the W7 firewall ? Or even how do you know its working?

I got the ESET AV running ok.



Tim

 

[gregrocker]

The windows Firewall is on by default, as is the Windows Defender. Neither have any noticeable resource hit.

Add a lightweight free AV like Avast or MS Security Essentials (new) and the resource use will remain unnoticeable.

My experience with AV's is that they bloat the system in almost direct relation to their cost.

 

[Bill037]

The windows Firewall is on by default, as is the Windows Defender. Neither have any noticeable resource hit.

Add a lightweight free AV like Avast or MS Security Essentials (new) and the resource use will remain unnoticeable.

My experience with AV's is that they bloat the system in almost direct relation to their cost.

When MS wanted a rock solid networking system they hired a top man from Dec. (I've forgotten his name). The guts of it used NTFS and led to Windows 2000.
He knew about 'security' but didn't put in the controls at the core level which up to then prevented Virii being possible. All professional system OS's had architectures that made Virii impossible. viz Unix.

That cross MS is still carrying.

No shortage of other OS's that don't have Virii. But Macs cost a lot more money to buy, so fall into professional hand traditionally. A friend called Jeremy Allison who co wrote Samba has said some really rude things about some versions of MS operating systems, but 'bangs per buck' a PC using windows is still top of the pile !

Windows 7 is , as far as I can see, a quantum leap forward in quality. And I greatly appreciate all the help I've received getting this OS to work OK. I maybe ignorant about lots of things about W7 and Vista but I'm quiet good on computing history going back to when Ritchie wrote 'C' in the late 1960's from a bcpl start.

Maybe Window 8 will fix that virii problem ?

Tim

 

[Dave76]

Interesting history, some people like MS and some don't, that's life.

Glad you got Win7 going like you want it to.

Win8, coming soon.

 

[Bill037]

Interesting history, some people like MS and some don't, that's life.

Glad you got Win7 going like you want it to.

Win8, coming soon.

Any idea what might be different about Win 8 ?



Tim

 

[Zidane24]

Interesting history, some people like MS and some don't, that's life.

Glad you got Win7 going like you want it to.

Win8, coming soon.

Any idea what might be different about Win 8 ?



Tim

Not a clue...no details yet