Nice to know! Sandi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob - "The Keyboard Cowboy"" <KBCowboy@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Cris" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:59 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: defrag > BTW, just a little update. I've been running Norton's (Symantec) > Systemworks which, of course, includes Norton's AV. I also used Outpost > Firewall, which I decided to abandon as it wasn't playing nicely on any of > my computers lately. Outpost Firewall and Microsoft just don't seem to > play well together any more. Sooooooooooo Given the firewallproblem, and > the fact that Systemworks doesn't run on Vista, I decided to buy > multi-license versions of Norton's Internet Security and load it on all my > computers, whether Vista or WinXP. > On this laptop which runs WinXP Pro, I started to load Norton's Internet > Security and thought "hey, why not delete just the AV portion of > Systemworks and leave the tools like Norton's defrag program?" > > I did, and it works just fine!! > > Soooo The learning is that on a WinXP computer, if you have Systemworks > (which hasn't been updated for Vista yet)and want to go to Norton's > Internet Security for AV and Firewall, you don't have to give up all the > other Systemworks tools. Just remove the AV portion and leave the other > parts of the program in tact. I'll be loading Internet Security on a > Vista computer next week, but without Systemworks. > > Regards, > > Bob - "The Keyboard Cowboy" > > Cincinnati, OH > Scottsdale, AZ > > Thursday, March 01, 2007 2:44:16 PM > --==<<0>>==-- > > On Thursday, March 1, 2007, 2:10:22 PM, you wrote: > > C> : ) !!! > C> Cris > C> ----- Original Message ----- > C> From: Bob - "The Keyboard Cowboy" > C> To: Cris > C> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 8:41 PM > C> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: defrag > > > C> The little program that Mike suggested works very well. I have > C> Norton's on this computer, but since it won't work on a Vista > C> computer I downloaded the defrag program and tried it -- it's just > fine! .....and free too <G> > C> Regards, > > C> Bob - "The Keyboard Cowboy" > > C> Cincinnati, OH > C> Scottsdale, AZ > > C> Tuesday, February 27, 2007 8:40:20 PM > C> --==<<0>>==-- > > > C> -- > C> <Please delete this line and everything below.> > > C> To unsub or change your email settings: > C> //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > C> To access our Archives: > C> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > C> //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > -- > <Please delete this line and everything below.> > > To unsub or change your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > > -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/