-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Well it seems My Guardian Angel Acted Again :p
- From: Steve Aiello <deacondeamon@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 07:23:06 -0400
Here's what I've found with the 64-bit I installed on one of my back up
drives. First was the firewall programs. PCTools says point blank they
will not work with 64-bit. Hard a hard time with Zone Alarm, I could not
get it to work, so I stuck with the windows version. Had no problem with
the AV I use , Avast , seems to work ok.
There will be 2 IEs. One will say Internet Explorer and the other Internet
Explorer 64-bit. All the sites I use except the game site, pogo and slingo
worked in the 64 bit version. Pogo and slingo use Java, Flash and Shockwave
and they do not have a 64 bit version, I belive Don stated that.
Firefox and Avant browsers work with no major problems.
As far as Games I have purchased and installed some played ok some didn't.
Simple games like poppit to go and solitaire play ok. Games with a lot of
action chicken attack, a kind of space invaders. and ricochet: infinity
played haltingly.
Most of my adware programs seem to work fine. Ad a ware, super antispyware
and malware bites are fine spybot s&d just did not want to work for me.
Perhaps if I had spent a little more time working with them to find a way to
fix the problems they all would work fine, with the exception of the
firewalls.
My best advice would be don't give up on vista. It takes time to get to
learn and yes it casn be a royal pain in the ass, but if you can learn it's
limataions and how to work within them, so as not to stress the OS. it will
work ok. It is not what MS promised it would be, but it is not as bad as
the Apple ads make it sound.
Well that's enough rambling.
Steve
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Cosmic <cosmicc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Been using Google all day; found a bunch of great sites too .. But no one
> ever explains it as cut and dry as you do G ;) Haven't really had time to
> lurk too much even .. Between night shift and House Hunting now I have been
> dead on my feet sometimes ..
>
> Gman wrote: Hey CC, it's great to see ya! :) In addition to all that's
> already been said, apps that won't work come down to anything that includes
> any amount of 16-bit (or earlier) code. Of course, that means any 16-bit
> apps, but it also includes any 32-bit apps that have the unfortunate luck
> to
> be tied to a 16-bit installer. There are numerous examples of this, but
> most
> apps have already been updated with full 32-bit installers that will work
> just fine under Vista 64. The good part is that Vista will balk if you try
> toinstall one of these 16-bit apps or a 32 that uses a 16-bit installer.
> You'll be able to gracefully back out without hurting the OS at all. That
> will give you the opportunity to go hunting for a replacement that may turn
> out to be better than whatever app you had been using up to that point. If
> you've been lurking all this time, you may have seen a very recent post
> from
> me mentioning that there are now tons of freeware and open source apps
> available these days. A little Google goes a long ways these days. lol
> Peace,Gman
> http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php[1]<http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php%5B1%5D>"The
> only dumb
> questions are the ones we fail to ask" ----- Original Message ----- From:
> "Cosmic" <cosmicc@xxxxxxxxx>[2] To: "!!~*G's Tech*~!!"
> <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>[3] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:32 AM
> Subject:-=PCTechTalk=- Well it seems My Guardian Angel Acted Again :p While
> Iam still working hard at nights and saving for a new PC to build; MyAunt
> must have gotten word and Purchased me a New PC ... Like last time it is a
> "Pre-Made" one and such, but this time with a 22 inch Wide Screen LCD !!!!
> Well anyway it also has Vista 64; Since I have yet to have vista at all;let
> alone 64bit, I was curious will I have to go purchase new Programs orwill
> allthe "normal" ones I have run on it ?? I plan to set it up later tonight
> and network it with my Old one to transfer user files .. CC
>
>
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