New to Vista and Vista Programs...

Drunkship · 07-06-2007, 05:42 PM

I just bought an Acer Aspire 5920G laptop from Best Buy the other day and this is my first time playing around with Vista (Home).

Now, I'm aware that a lot of programs I've used on XP aren't compatible with Vista so I'm asking you guys for a little help here.

Anti Virus: I'm using Avast as it seems to work.

Anti Spyware: I'm using Spybot S&D as it seems to work.

Firewall: I don't know what to use. Suggestions?

Registry Cleaner: CCleaner doesn't seem to remove all the errors, there's 38 of them still stuck. Any suggestions?

AIM: At the moment I'm using Miranda but I don't like it. I'm used to running AIM 5.9 with Middle_Man. Any suggestions here?

I know I could have searched the forums for a lot of these answers but I have to go to work soon and would like to ask you guys for all your opinions on which programs to run.

Thanks,
Bill

codeman0013 · 07-06-2007, 07:14 PM

Why not the new aim it works fine in vista.... antivirus most are upto date now the best free ones are avast and avg firewalls there are many out there most are getting up to date but the one built into vista is pretty good in my opinion. Ccleaner has some issues but they are working on them try also using sweepi it will help you some.

bluedishwasher · 07-06-2007, 07:46 PM

avg firewall scored veyr badly in some tests, i say Zone Alarm

timothyb89 · 07-06-2007, 09:03 PM

For IM try Pidgin (gaim, but AOL, in all their wisdom, sued Gaim because it sounded like 'AIM'):
http://pidgin.im

It works great and its open source

slaphappylinksys · 07-08-2007, 11:46 AM

y not use trillion its a aim yahoo msn icq all in one, and it did come with a windows firewall whats wrong with using that?

and most programs you can use on vista you just have to right click on the program that you want to install go to compatability and run it in xp mode i had to do it to get avg to work and many others and havent had any problems since

07-06-2007, 05:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
Drunkship Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 54	New to Vista and Vista Programs... I just bought an Acer Aspire 5920G laptop from Best Buy the other day and this is my first time playing around with Vista (Home). Now, I'm aware that a lot of programs I've used on XP aren't compatible with Vista so I'm asking you guys for a little help here. Anti Virus: I'm using Avast as it seems to work. Anti Spyware: I'm using Spybot S&D as it seems to work. Firewall: I don't know what to use. Suggestions? Registry Cleaner: CCleaner doesn't seem to remove all the errors, there's 38 of them still stuck. Any suggestions? AIM: At the moment I'm using Miranda but I don't like it. I'm used to running AIM 5.9 with Middle_Man. Any suggestions here? I know I could have searched the forums for a lot of these answers but I have to go to work soon and would like to ask you guys for all your opinions on which programs to run. Thanks, Bill

07-06-2007, 07:46 PM	#3 (permalink)
bluedishwasher Platinum Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: UK Age: 17 Posts: 639	avg firewall scored veyr badly in some tests, i say Zone Alarm __________________ - Jon

07-06-2007, 09:03 PM	#4 (permalink)
timothyb89 Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 357	For IM try Pidgin (gaim, but AOL, in all their wisdom, sued Gaim because it sounded like 'AIM'): http://pidgin.im It works great and its open source __________________ And now that I'm running my life support equipment through Windows 95, I'll never have to worry about - beeeeeeeep... Registered Linux User #425668 Registered Linux Machine #333299

07-08-2007, 11:46 AM	#5 (permalink)
slaphappylinksys Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: crappy town ohio Posts: 154	y not use trillion its a aim yahoo msn icq all in one, and it did come with a windows firewall whats wrong with using that? and most programs you can use on vista you just have to right click on the program that you want to install go to compatability and run it in xp mode i had to do it to get avg to work and many others and havent had any problems since __________________ gateway GT5411E Intel® Pentium® D 64 Bit processor 915 2.8Ghz processor, soon core 2 duo e6600. Intel (Coryville) 945G Motherboard 2048MB PC4200 DDR2 533Mhz 250 GIG SATA ll HD Intel 10/100 Mbps Ethernet LAN WMP 54g LINKSYS WIFI PCI Adapter Vista Home Premium 32 bit

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07-06-2007, 07:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
codeman0013 Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Inside my network at work Age: 23 Posts: 1,468	Why not the new aim it works fine in vista.... antivirus most are upto date now the best free ones are avast and avg firewalls there are many out there most are getting up to date but the one built into vista is pretty good in my opinion. Ccleaner has some issues but they are working on them try also using sweepi it will help you some.

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