+1 I think one of the best features of Vista / 7 is the Start | Search box, use it all the time, really miss it when I work on XP!
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com>wrote: > Each time I sit down in front of a windows xp box now I hate it. Windows 7 > is MUCH easier and quicker to use. > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith > Consultant and Exchange MVP > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 4:27 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows 7 problem (Home user) > > Thanks. I’ll forward this to myself at home so I can review it… I’m not > exactly a novice malware fighter… just a novice at fighting it on Windows 7. > ☺ I *really* dislike Windows Vista and Windows 7. It really is a pain the > way that Microsoft decided to redesign everything! ☹ > > > > From: Carol Fee [mailto:c...@massbar.org] > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 4:19 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows 7 problem (Home user) > > And you may need to run more than that. Check out the Major Geeks site – > it hasn’t failed me yet > http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407 > > CFee > From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:28 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows 7 problem (Home user) > > Yeah, but Vipre Rescure only found one thing and took care of that. I’ll > run Malware Bytes when I get home tonight, even though it’s not able to > update, it might find whatever else is in there. > > > > From: Carol Fee [mailto:c...@massbar.org] > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:00 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows 7 problem (Home user) > > Sounds like the computer has become infected. > > CFee > From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:48 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Windows 7 problem (Home user) > > I am working on a computer for one of my users. It’s a brand new HP running > Windows 7 Home Premium and I’m having a devil of a time with it. The user > complains that it suddenly started taking forever to do anything and that it > can’t get to the internet any more. I found he’d installed a second > antivirus on top of the Norton that it came with (BitDefender, I think it > was) which I finally removed after going into safe mode and running the > uninstaller that I downloaded and put on a CD. That’s another thing – it > doesn’t recognize my USB Memory stick that I tried to attach to it; at least > not in normal mode. It’ll show up in Safe Mode, but not normal mode. Also > can’t get into the Firewall settings, not even to allow a program to bypass > the firewall. > > I’ve run the latest version of Vipre Rescue and installed Malware Bytes, > but I can’t update MB because I can’t get to the internet. ☹ I’ve already > tried running “netsh winsock reset” and that really didn’t help anything > either. > > Any suggestions? This is really only my second Windows 7 machine that I’ve > laid hands on. The first one was a Windows 7 Professional that I installed > on a spare box using the Release Candidate that Microsoft let anyone > download and install. > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
