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new lappy.what free stuff works with vista?

fishing-girl
fishing-girl Posts: 327 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
my new laptop arrives next week.
on my old one i use
zone alarm
avg
superspyware
spybot
ad aware.

will all these work with vista?
thanks for any help.
:hello: :j
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  • chuckles1066
    chuckles1066 Posts: 2,670 Forumite
    fishing-girl wrote: »
    my new laptop arrives next week.
    on my old one i use
    zone alarm
    avg
    superspyware
    spybot
    ad aware.

    will all these work with vista?
    thanks for any help.

    AVG definitely works, as does Ad-Aware 2007 and ZoneAlarm.

    Don't know about the others.
    You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take - Wayne Gretzky

    Any advice that you receive from me is worth exactly what you paid for it. Not a penny more or a penny less.
  • flapjackboy
    flapjackboy Posts: 41 Forumite
    The new version of Spybot is not worth it, imho. I don't know what it's like on Vista, but if my experiences with it on XP SP3 are anything to go by, avoid it. It's slow and buggy as hell.
  • ckerrd
    ckerrd Posts: 2,641 Forumite
    CCLeaner works as well, for general tidying up.

    Have had Vista for nearly a year on one laptop. Wish I had stuck to XP
    We all evolve - get on with it
  • robt_2
    robt_2 Posts: 3,401 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Just about everything works on Vista.
  • chuckles1066
    chuckles1066 Posts: 2,670 Forumite
    robt wrote: »
    Just about everything works on Vista.

    No it doesn't.

    Behave!
    You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take - Wayne Gretzky

    Any advice that you receive from me is worth exactly what you paid for it. Not a penny more or a penny less.
  • devils_spawn
    devils_spawn Posts: 180 Forumite
    Zonealarm really impacts on the system when installed on Vista - you'll find your laptop going really REALLY slowly!!
  • robt_2
    robt_2 Posts: 3,401 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    chuckles1066 wrote: »
    No it doesn't.

    Behave!

    Yes it does. I didn't say 'everything'.

    For most home consumers, just about everything will work.
  • Shimrod
    Shimrod Posts: 1,212 Forumite
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    I'm assuming you will have vista 32bit. If your laptop has the 64bit version installed, then zonealarm will not install.
  • chuckles1066
    chuckles1066 Posts: 2,670 Forumite
    robt wrote: »
    Yes it does. I didn't say 'everything'.

    For most home consumers, just about everything will work.

    And the difference between "everything" and "just about everything" is?

    Here are a couple of starters...........my video capture card drivers, many versions of Nero Burning Rom, DVD Audio Ripper, TBI Viewer.

    That's four on this system alone.........
    You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take - Wayne Gretzky

    Any advice that you receive from me is worth exactly what you paid for it. Not a penny more or a penny less.
  • missile
    missile Posts: 11,886 Forumite
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    devils_spawn wrote: »
    Zonealarm really impacts on the system when installed on Vista - you'll find your laptop going really REALLY slowly!!
    Why would that be?

    I run it on a PC without problems and no apparent impact on performance:confused:
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