Well, hope you all had a wonderful, magical Christmas! Ready for a great New Year! Windows 7 seems to be getting a little better, or I am. Printers seem to be working better, so I'm saying some windows updates are helping compatibility. Compatibility between Windows 7 and Windows XP seems to be better than Windows Vista. I have gone through the wireless networking issue with XP and Vista, and Windows 7 seem to accept XP better. That's good for me and for my clients. Microsoft also promised faster startups and better memory (RAM) utilization, and I think there is greater efficiency. That being said, there are still many things to work through for a less buggy experience. Don't be afraid to buy a new computer with Windows 7, but if you can wait a while longer, do that, and you'll happier. I'll keep reporting to you on the progress of Windows 7 with my experiences, and hopefully this will be helpful.
I'm still working with my Mac computer and will be adding training and eventually repair for Mac computers to my business. There are a lot of similarities these days with the Windows computer and the Apple Mac computers. Macs are pretty cool, and I'm really looking forward to mastering their great software programs of iWork and iLife. These are suites of programs to create photo projects, DVDs, Movies, Word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations similar to Powerpoint. If you are a home user, Mac could be just as great for you as a Windows computer, and they are coming down in price. Something to think about. Another big advantage at this time is that they do not have the virus/spyware problems that Windows has, so I'll keep you advised as to my findings on this.
So, I wish you all a very Happy New Year!!
Rocky Hamilton
rockyham@gmail.com
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Windows 7, and the jury is definitely still out...
Hope everyone is taking the day off today, and feeling peaceful! I've been a busy beaver setting up yet one more website responsibility. Just can't get enough.
Well, so far I've encountered a few HP computers with Windows 7, and here are the results of the meetings...or the collisions. One such encounter was with the Hp Touchsmart All-in-One 600t series. This computer is kind of cool, but the touch screen is kind of wasted. It's fun to punch at your screen for a while, sensitivity issues are a problem because all you really have to do is hover over the icon sometimes, and it opens, even if you didn't want it to. This computer would freeze up several times in an hour, and was vitually unusable until I uninstalled an antivirus program called Webroot Antivirus/Antispy. The client had the program preinstalled at Best Buy, but the program was not as compatible as the package claimed. At least, not compatible with this computer with Windows 7 Home Premium. Uninstalling the program magically resurrected the computer to run smoothly, and connect to the internet via Internet Explorer 8.
I highly recommend Avast Antivirus/Antispyware Software, available for download at http://www.avast.com/ and you can download it free. They have a great pay version at a very reasonable $59(on sale now) for a 3 year subscription, but as long as you are willing to manually scan your computer, this free version is just fine.
One more thing, another HP with Windows 7, Norton Antivirus/Antispy installed, could not get to the internet at all with Internet Exporer 8. It was not a Touchscreen, but I suspect Norton may have had some play in this problem just as the Webroot software had. I was not at liberty to change this antivirus software, so I had FireFox on a CD, and I installed that for the client, which solved their internet problems. So there's a couple of scenarios for you.
However you handle the new Windows 7 computers, remember that you need a spare browser, like I mentioned in the previous tips, so download FireFox or Chrome and use Avast Antivirus/Antispyware software.
Well, so far I've encountered a few HP computers with Windows 7, and here are the results of the meetings...or the collisions. One such encounter was with the Hp Touchsmart All-in-One 600t series. This computer is kind of cool, but the touch screen is kind of wasted. It's fun to punch at your screen for a while, sensitivity issues are a problem because all you really have to do is hover over the icon sometimes, and it opens, even if you didn't want it to. This computer would freeze up several times in an hour, and was vitually unusable until I uninstalled an antivirus program called Webroot Antivirus/Antispy. The client had the program preinstalled at Best Buy, but the program was not as compatible as the package claimed. At least, not compatible with this computer with Windows 7 Home Premium. Uninstalling the program magically resurrected the computer to run smoothly, and connect to the internet via Internet Explorer 8.
I highly recommend Avast Antivirus/Antispyware Software, available for download at http://www.avast.com/ and you can download it free. They have a great pay version at a very reasonable $59(on sale now) for a 3 year subscription, but as long as you are willing to manually scan your computer, this free version is just fine.
One more thing, another HP with Windows 7, Norton Antivirus/Antispy installed, could not get to the internet at all with Internet Exporer 8. It was not a Touchscreen, but I suspect Norton may have had some play in this problem just as the Webroot software had. I was not at liberty to change this antivirus software, so I had FireFox on a CD, and I installed that for the client, which solved their internet problems. So there's a couple of scenarios for you.
However you handle the new Windows 7 computers, remember that you need a spare browser, like I mentioned in the previous tips, so download FireFox or Chrome and use Avast Antivirus/Antispyware software.
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