New Laptop - which flavour of Windows? (and other issues)
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From: Ryan P. on 11 Mar 2010 22:37 On 3/12/2010 7:02 PM, John Rumm wrote: > Wandering off topic a bit here, but, are you aware of any free solutions > that can work in the manner of VNC-SC (i.e. a small prog a user can DL > and run that then "phones home" back to me and gives remote control - > nicely sidestepping any NAT and firewall issues on the remote end of the > setup). While VNC-SC works well controlling XP machines, its painfully > slow on Vista and Win7. I don't have any issues with speed going from my Vista laptop (or the Win 7 partition on the laptop) via VNC to my Win 7 desktop upstairs. Of course, I turn off most of the Aero eye candy, as it does nothing except increase power usage and suck RAM. That could be part of your speed issue?
From: Ryan P. on 11 Mar 2010 22:52 On 3/12/2010 11:08 AM, Roger Mills wrote: > Can you run USB-connected physical devices in a VM, or only software > applications? I'm thinking of things like my Midiman Uno MIDI interface, for > which there doesn't appear to be a W7 driver. In my experience, Win7 will happily install most XP and Vista drivers. Win7 successfully installed, and all my peripherals worked on my old desktop, which was based on 6 year old MB, AMD 3200, and all the associated old hardware. With 1GB of RAM, no less. I think its really going to be luck of the draw on your peripherals working in Win7. Best thing to do will be to Google your peripheral along with Win7. Chances are other people have the same peripheral as you do, and likely there will be a workaround.
From: Rod on 13 Mar 2010 02:35 On 13/03/2010 01:02, John Rumm wrote: <> > > Wandering off topic a bit here, but, are you aware of any free solutions > that can work in the manner of VNC-SC (i.e. a small prog a user can DL > and run that then "phones home" back to me and gives remote control - > nicely sidestepping any NAT and firewall issues on the remote end of the > setup). While VNC-SC works well controlling XP machines, its painfully > slow on Vista and Win7. > I had never see VNC-SC before. But as we use LogMeIn extensively that has become our preferred solution. Never have firewall issues (once the remoter machine has normal web access) at either end. If the remote computer does not have it installed, we simply talk the user through installing it. Have managed to get some pretty incompetent people through that process. (Depending on how you set up accounts/usernames, you might need temporarily to reveal your password to allow them to add their computer to your account. When this issue arises, we change our password for a minute or two.) And we only use LogMeIn free ourselves - though quite a number of the sites we access have decided to get a paid-for version. -- Rod
From: Adrian C on 13 Mar 2010 05:56 On 13/03/2010 00:17, Barry Watzman wrote: > Re: "But why? My attitude is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"!" > > Because it is broken, only the cracks are not on the surface. > > There is NO support by Intuit for anything over about 3 years old. There > are security issues. And once you get more than about 6 years old, you > may not be ABLE to migrate from the old version to a current version. Quicken stopped UK support in 2005. http://www.quicken.co.uk/ I still use Quicken 98 for invoicing, and I really should get around to exporting my data to something else... Need to find round tuits. -- Adrian C
From: John Rumm on 13 Mar 2010 07:27
Ryan P. wrote: > On 3/12/2010 7:02 PM, John Rumm wrote: > >> Wandering off topic a bit here, but, are you aware of any free solutions >> that can work in the manner of VNC-SC (i.e. a small prog a user can DL >> and run that then "phones home" back to me and gives remote control - >> nicely sidestepping any NAT and firewall issues on the remote end of the >> setup). While VNC-SC works well controlling XP machines, its painfully >> slow on Vista and Win7. > > I don't have any issues with speed going from my Vista laptop (or the > Win 7 partition on the laptop) via VNC to my Win 7 desktop upstairs. > > Of course, I turn off most of the Aero eye candy, as it does nothing > except increase power usage and suck RAM. That could be part of your > speed issue? -- Cheers, John. /=================================================================\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \=================================================================/ |