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.