-=PCTechTalk=- Re: defrag

  • From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:23:23 -0600

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
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> 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
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