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What is the recommended free Antivirus these days? I just moved up to Windows 7 (a little late, I know) and its giving me some kind of warning.
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# ? Jun 15, 2012 21:36 |
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FunOne posted:What is the recommended free Antivirus these days? I just moved up to Windows 7 (a little late, I know) and its giving me some kind of warning. I'd go with Microsoft Security Essentials.
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# ? Jun 15, 2012 21:38 |
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Toast Museum posted:I'd go with Microsoft Security Essentials. Thank you, I appreciate it.
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# ? Jun 15, 2012 21:42 |
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FISHMANPET posted:This sounds like exactly what Nagios is made for. Far from quick, but still plenty dirty. AWS Cloudwatch custom metrics can do it too, but will cost you money and diffently isn't quick. You can do it fairly easily though with powershell and the .NET SDK.
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# ? Jun 16, 2012 02:46 |
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Should I still care about background processes impacting performance? Back in the day you would close out of whatever happened to be running, system tray type stuff, before running games, for example Now, assuming those processes aren't using much/any CPU, is there any need to do this?
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# ? Jun 17, 2012 04:47 |
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I don't bother closing stuff but I do run msconfig every now and then and turn off most of the poo poo that thinks it needs to run at startup and disable most non-microsoft services.
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# ? Jun 17, 2012 05:58 |
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HKBGUTT posted:Is it possible to use a Windows 7 OEM-key from a laptop and install using a Windows 7 retail cd and sucessfully activate Windows? I remember this beeing problematic with Windows XP. Just in case it doesn't activate (I've had this issue alot) online, Just use the automated phone service. That always works for me.
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# ? Jun 17, 2012 06:39 |
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Moses posted:Should I still care about background processes impacting performance? Depends what they are. Most things I leave alone, but I do turn off all the useless helper services that only exist to make some program I run once a week load 0.3 seconds faster, and the third-party updater crap that tries to phone home 15 times a day.
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# ? Jun 17, 2012 11:06 |
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Does anyone know a good program for mounting various images in Windows 7? I've been using both alcohol and daemontools, but they are kinda bloaty and tries to make me install spyware with them etc. Anyone knows a simple and clean alternative?
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# ? Jun 17, 2012 20:43 |
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I switched to WinCDEmu a while ago. FOSS, portable, functional.
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# ? Jun 17, 2012 20:52 |
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NihilCredo posted:I switched to WinCDEmu a while ago. FOSS, portable, functional. Thanks a lot! Just what I was looking for. If only more programs where like this and Transmission
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# ? Jun 17, 2012 21:14 |
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Sistergodiva posted:Does anyone know a good program for mounting various images in Windows 7? I've been using both alcohol and daemontools, but they are kinda bloaty and tries to make me install spyware with them etc. Anyone knows a simple and clean alternative? I prefer PowerISO, it's also good for ripping discs. The virtual drive manager thing for the images is very resource-light.
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# ? Jun 17, 2012 23:45 |
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I'm a fan of Virtual CloneDrive.
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# ? Jun 17, 2012 23:47 |
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What's that website that lets you build a custom install package from a long list of programs for fresh window installs? I can't for the life of me remember it and google is giving me nothing.
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# ? Jun 18, 2012 00:16 |
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I think you want Nitnite.
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# ? Jun 18, 2012 00:21 |
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Toast Museum posted:I'm a fan of Virtual CloneDrive. Another vote for Virtual CloneDrive.
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# ? Jun 18, 2012 00:37 |
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VCD only fails when you're mounting those awful PowerISO or MagicISO or whatever the hell interchangeable shareware crap software it's called, but Luigi Auriemma wrote tools to convert UIF, DAA, etc to ISO really quickly so it's easily the best ISO mounter.
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# ? Jun 18, 2012 00:52 |
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YggiDee posted:I think you want Nitnite. Thank you.
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# ? Jun 18, 2012 01:50 |
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Toast Museum posted:I'm a fan of Virtual CloneDrive. This gets my vote as well. On another note, is there such thing as software that will intelligently impose network rules when you're travelling? My dad often goes to remote parts of the world with only data-limited satellite internet and Windows will still try and pull monthly updates in those circumstances; I'd rather not lower the rules if I can help it because the updates will never get installed then. At the very least something with an on/off switch that'll change the Microsoft Update settings, and having support for other software with auto-updates would be a plus too.
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# ? Jun 18, 2012 14:50 |
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If the satellite connection uses a different network interface, the default Windows Firewall can set a rule to only apply to them (double click -> Advanced -> Interface Types, "Customize"). You can also set them to only apply to "Public" type networks, and tell your dad to hit the "classify as Public" option when he gets the popup for a new network. Alternatively, you can just make two different policy files (basically firewall profiles) and have your dad switch between them as necessary.
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# ? Jun 18, 2012 16:19 |
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YggiDee posted:I think you want Nitnite. Wow, that's pretty cool. I usually just keep a flash drive with a bunch of installers on it but this might make it a little easier.
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# ? Jun 18, 2012 22:43 |
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Windows press conference in LA is just starting, Engadget has a pretty okay live blog going right now here.
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# ? Jun 18, 2012 23:37 |
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Propaganda Hour posted:Windows press conference in LA is just starting, Engadget has a pretty okay live blog going right now here. The Verge have one going as well. http://live.theverge.com/microsoft-live-blog-tablet-announcement/
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 00:09 |
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TwoKnives posted:The Verge have one going as well. Yeah, they got better seats, too.
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 00:10 |
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Steve Ballmer is a very dour and strange looking individual
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 00:13 |
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Sab669 posted:Wow, that's pretty cool. I usually just keep a flash drive with a bunch of installers on it but this might make it a little easier. Ninite is pretty fantastic. It's made life so much easier for me doing reinstalls.
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 01:33 |
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Just bought an SSD and I want to move my current Windows 7 install onto it. I found a program call Paragon that is apparently designed to help with this. Is Paragon a good choice, or is there something else better? Or is there some reason moving the install is a bad idea? *I'd rather pay $20 than spend time dealing with offsets and stuff, I also found instructions for that.
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 02:04 |
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modig posted:Just bought an SSD and I want to move my current Windows 7 install onto it. I found a program call Paragon that is apparently designed to help with this. Is Paragon a good choice, or is there something else better? Or is there some reason moving the install is a bad idea? I'd also like to know the answer to this!
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 03:03 |
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It comes up a lot, and usually the SSD will come with some kind of program that will clone your old drive.
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 03:26 |
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I know Microsoft did an IT Conference for those wishing to get a free copy of Windows 7 back in '09. Any word if they'll be doing something similar with 8?
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 14:51 |
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Lightweight alternative to Adobe Reader for pdfs for a new laptop? (Win 7) Also, the shsc.info links in the OP no longer work (where I wanted to look for this info!)
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 15:46 |
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I use SumatraPDF, it's probably as light as things get. I don't know if anyone has a better suggestion. If you have a new machine, I'd use https://www.ninite.com to install it and any other knick-knacks you may need in one go.
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 15:48 |
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retro sexual posted:Lightweight alternative to Adobe Reader for pdfs for a new laptop? (Win 7)
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 15:50 |
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I also use this: http://www.patchmypc.net/ To install simple programs and to keep them up to date. Works great.
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 15:50 |
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Inspector_71 posted:It comes up a lot, and usually the SSD will come with some kind of program that will clone your old drive. The intel drive I got pointed me towards some software, but it couldn't handle the fact that my previous install was bigger than my SSD. So I bought Paragon which lets you not move folders like Users. I was not super impressed with Paragon, there is a button like "use all of target drive regardless of how much you copy there" which only freezes the program in such a way that you need to reboot before you can use it again. Also I did something that convinced it that it only needed to copy zero bytes over. All in all I probably ran it 10-15 times before I finally hit go, because I had to figure out which settings actually worked. Also it provides no help with configuring windows to know about your new Users location, so I had to boot into safe mode and do that myself.
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 15:55 |
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I'd suggest just reinstalling Windows and then copying over whatever you need from the old drive. There are settings within Windows that are set differently when it's install on an SSD - cloning a drive from an HDD to SDD would require you to go in and manually change those settings. Installing from scratch gives the installer a chance to optimize the OS so it can reap the full benefits of solid-state storage.
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 16:21 |
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Karthe posted:I'd suggest just reinstalling Windows and then copying over whatever you need from the old drive. There are settings within Windows that are set differently when it's install on an SSD - cloning a drive from an HDD to SDD would require you to go in and manually change those settings. Installing from scratch gives the installer a chance to optimize the OS so it can reap the full benefits of solid-state storage. Reinstalling has other benefits, obviously.
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# ? Jun 19, 2012 16:33 |
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In an Active Directory environment, shouldn't the connecting clients be listed in DNS on the DNS server? Only some are - Windows 7 systems, I think. The Windows XP systems aren't listed in DNS. From the server, I can right-click a Windows 7 system and go to Manage. But not the XP systems, as it can't resolve their names. What should I be checking on the XP systems? What Group Policy can I enable to push the setting out to all XP systems? Edit: My Windows 7 systems definitely added themselves to DNS, and my Macs have added themselves a dozen times each (apparently they register DNS for each network adapter they have). Double-edit, the Windows XP systems have "Register this connection's address in DNS" disable. Enabling that seems to get their DNS info updated. How can I force that with a Group Policy? Policies/Admin/Network/DNS Client/ "Dynamic Updates" seems like it would do it, but it doesn't make the setting stick. Xenomorph fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Jun 19, 2012 |
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Xenomorph posted:In an Active Directory environment, shouldn't the connecting clients be listed in DNS on the DNS server? Only some are - Windows 7 systems, I think. The Windows XP systems aren't listed in DNS. I wouldn't be changing stuff in GPO to fix the issue. Something is wrong. Has someone turned off dynamic updates on the domain in the DNS server? Right click the domain name in DNS Manager (forward lookup) and look to see what the dynamic updates is set at. edit: Also make sure someone didn't turn off the DHCP client service through GPO for xp machines. Also is your DHCP server setup properly and handing out the proper DNS servers and DNS suffix(option 15 if I recall) (I don't think this matters for dynamic updates but for resolving it would). IT Guy fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Jun 20, 2012 |
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What do you guys use to make .gifs from video clips? Photoshop is being a bitch and online tools have awful results.
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