Hands Up If You Hate Vista!

Millionaire

MoneySavingStudent wrote: »

Im completely ticked off with the whole dam thing to be quite honist.
My old computer with windows xp ran faster then this thing!
and whats really annoying me at the moment is when im typing on here its taking about 10 seconds to catch up when the cursor goes down to the next line!

If you install crap like Mcafee, what do you expect?

Get rid of it and stick one of the many recommended free ones on. Or if you don't mind paying, stick what I use on.. http://www.eset.co.uk/smartsecurity/index.php

MoneySavingStudent_2

Right nevermind ill try sort it out myself
thanks anyway

[Deleted User]

MoneySavingStudent wrote: »

Right nevermind ill try sort it out myself
thanks anyway

I'll have a think about this tomorrow and report back!

MoneySavingStudent_2

thanks be_alright
but it doesnt matter, thread has just turned into a big discussion, all i needed was abit of help, not to be slammed by people and their own opinions about what ive got on my computer


EDIT: never had norton. laptop was new from dell in august 07

MoneySavingStudent_2

theres nothing ive tried everything, ive crap cleaned everything, ive uninstalled everything then tried again and again. Ive completely had it with this dam laptop to be quite honist!

Millionaire

MoneySavingStudent wrote: »

thanks be_alright
but it doesnt matter, thread has just turned into a big discussion, all i needed was abit of help, not to be slammed by people and their own opinions about what ive got on my computer


EDIT: never had norton. laptop was new from dell in august 07

Maybe if your thread title was "Having Problems with Mcafee Please Help" instead of "put your hands up if you hate Vista" then you would'nt have more people discussing the merits of Vista than the problem with your Antivirus.

Anyway Im telling you Mcafee is renowned as !!!!!. If possible remove it and stick on a better, free alternative. cant see anything wrong in that.

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MoneySavingStudent wrote: »

Im completely ticked off with the whole dam thing to be quite honist.
My old computer with windows xp ran faster then this thing!
and whats really annoying me at the moment is when im typing on here its taking about 10 seconds to catch up when the cursor goes down to the next line!

Have you used adaware to scan your system for malware? Also, do a free virus check at bitdefender.com.

MoneySavingStudent_2

thanks for actually helping ronben
i brought mcafee and i cant afford to just get rid of it, im a student and dont have much money and when the free ones werent doing any good i went for the most popular named one. Everything was fine until this personal firewall thing kept popping up. Ive tried turning it off but it just keeps either saying you cant because of an error or says its not running because it had problems and was closed. Im going to have to think about restoring it all to factory settings because i am completely at the end of my rope now and am at the point of thinking about throwing my laptop against a wall.

MoneySavingStudent_2

after spending an hour on mcafee support i think i may have figured out the problem. after the stupid website took me around in circles i managed to get on to the live chat. Whether its with a clever computer or a not so clever human they didnt really help much but did manage to show me how to get on to the services settings so i can then change around the start and stop options and completely disable the personal firewall so i dont keep receiving pop ups. I spent 30 minutes giving this person/machine a chance to fix my computer but after waiting and waiting for the slow replys to come i didnt really get anywhere so i said goodbye and closed the conversation and had a play myself. So far so good no errors have come up. If it all starts again and im in the same situation when i boot up in the morning, i will think about restoring the system to its factory settings. Thanks ronben for your help! i will see how it goes

banger9365

your not going to like me much put i hate xp really hate xp,it's slow not haft has secure has vista,vista is easy to us and it likes my pc which xp do's not.infact i cannot run xp on my pc any more unless it's xp 64 and we now how bad that is
now your going to tell me all the technical stuff about both which I know and your going to us the problems you have that makes vista bad please stop looking at vista and start look that the people that make the hardware it’s then that coarse all your problems not vista same with the program, it’s the program makers not vista,
vista is the most stable operating system Microsoft has made to date your all looking at the wrong things