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<blockquote data-quote="PerryLynch" data-source="post: 590662" data-attributes="member: 38563"><p>Vista does not run well on 1 GB at all. At the very least, you've got to have 2. Other things: go to <a href="http://www.betanews.com" target="_blank">http://www.betanews.com</a> and get F-Secure's Black Light, and then do the trial download of a good spyware killer like Webroot's Spy Sweeper. For that matter, BUY Spysweeper + AV. It's quite effective.</p><p></p><p>Also, set up an admin account, and then drop the permissions on the other user accounts to regular user. That will help prevent crap from being installed easily. </p><p></p><p>I would not consider running symantec or McAfee on vista. they slow the system down terribly. Webroot will do the job with much less processor utilization. The temp files are still where another member has listed them, but you also want to kill the prefetch files. One thing, Vista is more unix-like in that user data is now stored in a User directory instead of docs & settings.</p><p></p><p>Good luck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PerryLynch, post: 590662, member: 38563"] Vista does not run well on 1 GB at all. At the very least, you've got to have 2. Other things: go to [url]http://www.betanews.com[/url] and get F-Secure's Black Light, and then do the trial download of a good spyware killer like Webroot's Spy Sweeper. For that matter, BUY Spysweeper + AV. It's quite effective. Also, set up an admin account, and then drop the permissions on the other user accounts to regular user. That will help prevent crap from being installed easily. I would not consider running symantec or McAfee on vista. they slow the system down terribly. Webroot will do the job with much less processor utilization. The temp files are still where another member has listed them, but you also want to kill the prefetch files. One thing, Vista is more unix-like in that user data is now stored in a User directory instead of docs & settings. Good luck [/QUOTE]
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