New Laptop - which flavour of Windows? (and other issues)
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From: John Rumm on 13 Mar 2010 07:49 Ryan P. wrote: > On 3/12/2010 7:02 PM, John Rumm wrote: Ok, with content this time! >> 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. The normal VNC seems ok over a LAN when controlling Vista etc, but the single click version over a pair of ADSL connections seems to have major difficulties. > 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? Turning off aero helps - but its still almost postal - e.g. click for a menu and wait anything from 10 to 20 seconds to see the result etc. -- Cheers, John. /=================================================================\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \=================================================================/
From: John Rumm on 13 Mar 2010 07:50 Rod wrote: > 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. I will have to give it a go... ta. -- Cheers, John. /=================================================================\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \=================================================================/
From: John Doue on 13 Mar 2010 08:18 On 3/13/2010 5:56 AM, Adrian C wrote: > 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. > You lost me here. What does your last sentence mean? -- John Doue
From: Barry Watzman on 13 Mar 2010 09:32 There are 3 options for these situations: 1. Put up with the very annoying UAC prompts every time you use the older programs. 2. Turn off UAC entirely. Not recommended by the experts, but in reality you are no worse off than you would be if you were just using XP. 3. It is possible to configure UAC behavior on a program-by-program basis, e.g. off for ill-behaved older programs but on for later, UAC compliant software. A web search will find instructions. It's not easy or fun; this was not something Microsoft really intended to support, but it can be manually configured. John Rumm wrote: > Roger Mills wrote: > > Some older stuff may have problems with the enforced security model of > win7. This is basically a result of apps not following the rules about > which parts of the files system and registry they are allowed to access. > (MS apps being just as bad as others!). > > Sometimes you can get past this with selective use of admin rights > during first run etc. (i.e. doing a run as administrator) > > Better versions of win7 also include an XP mode - this is basically a > complete XP system inside a virtual machine that can be used for stuff > that goofs in a bad way. >
From: Andy Champ on 13 Mar 2010 10:04
Roger Mills wrote: > I'm in the market for a new laptop computer. I need to have access to the > same software and data files at two different locations, and have decided > that a single laptop is preferable to maintaining two lots of hardware and > trying to keep them in synch. > > Much as I would like to get away from the clutches of Microsoft, I *need* > Windows because I've got lots of software which won't run on anything else. > </snip> Don't go Vista. It doesn't do anything that Win7 doesn't do better. XP was OK, but I think I prefer 7. Andy |