New to Vista and Vista Programs...

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Drunkship

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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
 
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.
 
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
 
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