JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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wrote:
Hey Harry, was that you on the ZA forum on 5/16 saying the Vista beta
is s-l-o-w.
I was wondering if I should try it.
I am a long time za user and have prolly 8 months left on my ZA Pro
subscription.
I wish they could get it working.
However they are not the only one with vista probs.
Nvidia doesn't have a good driver for my $600 8800GTX.
Regards,
BTW, sold my Luhrs 320T, currently boatless. Got grandkids now and no
time for a boat on the coast. I'm looking at trailer boats.
Indeed it was.
I was using ZA with my XP setup, and it worked well there. When I went
to VISTA, I thought I'd give the ZA Vista beta a good workout, but I was
offput by its slowness at boot up and the delays in opening programs,
plus the seemingly endless crashes of the beta (but not VISTA). So I
tried a few other suites this past week, including those from AVG, et
cetera, and right now am playing around with Kaspersky's suite. I'm
using the 6.0 version that works with VISTA, not the "7" beta. So far it
seems to be working just fine. It's fast, the updates work well, and it
has a reasonable interface. There's a 30-day free trial.
I got an agreement out of ZA to extend my paid subscription by six
months or until six months after the release of the ZA retail for VISTA.
When the retail version comes out, I'll look it over.
Does these other suites include a firewall which also:
****CONTROLS OUTBOUND ACTIVITY*****???
Ahh. Yes, both the ZA beta and the Kaspersky release version do. For some
strange reason, the firewall MS packed in with VISTA does not. Weird, eh?
Not that weird. Some products are sold because somebody will buy them, not
because there's anything compelling about them.
Ahh. Well, I have no regrets about leaving XP behind. I've been running
VISTA for months now, without one serious glitch. I have a lot of
hardware connected up, and tons of software, too, most of it holdovers
from XP or even Win2k. It all works.
I've read about a lot of the problems some others are having. The
majority seem to be related to users who install VISTA over an existing
earlier MS OS, now with those who did a clean install.