Iam now the owner of a windows 7 premium laptop. Now having never used windows (Mac lover) I'm a bit lost on somethings.. please can you help me?
1) I've installed avast - do I need to do anything else? It seemed to want to do something with norton and won't let me close that window? I persume it has an inbuilt firewall.. well it said it was on.
2) I'm using FF as my browser, used to it and like it :) However when I go to different sites the fonts are different sizes despite setting my own size settings in FF
3) Lastly hpw do I set the scroll pad/mouse thing for let handers? And can you do two finger scrolling like a Mac
I'll leave it to Windows users but seems you might have some third party software on besides. I would suggest use Windows firewall and one AV software suite i.e Avast or MSE.
Sounds like it's come with a trial version of Norton already installed, Tina, it's not an HP laptop is it?
I'd agree, Ray, laptops often have trial versions of one security app or another.
As for 2, I've never seen the issue and 3, it depends on the software as to whether it's possible. Check Control Panel, Tina.
http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/175643-synaptic-touchpad-driver-configuration.html
I'm trying MSE on my laptop at the moment. It seems to nag me to scan once a week, which there should be no need to do, if it's doing it's job.
Did you remove Norton, before you installed Avast ? You can't have both...........
no I didn't , but have done so now :) Getting used to it all now lol
Ok 24 hours on from my windows 7 's arrival I'm coping much better :D Sorted out two finger scrolling. The font was sorted by setting a minimum size. Norted was a trail, do I took it off, and just have Avast - is that enough? It's set to do matienance on a wed. The only thing I can't seem to do is check spelling lol. OnFF on my Mac it underlined words in red so I could go back and check. I've got spotify and skype set up. Do I need anything else?
I think the spell checking is a setting in Firefox itself, Tina.
ah Ok will go check it out. Thanks muchly :)
Quote from: Simon on Jul 27, 2011, 16:33:26
I'm trying MSE on my laptop at the moment. It seems to nag me to scan once a week, which there should be no need to do, if it's doing it's job.
Nope. Scans are not the same as memory checks or download file checks are they? A scan checks
everything, where as memory access checks that run constantly are like bolting the stable doors after the event. :P
Sorry, are you agreeing or disagreeing, Ben?
A bit of both. ;)
Are you saying a virus scanner should not do full disk checks?
I think Simon was saying a full disk scan shouldn't be necessary because the virus should be intercepted upon arrival.
Quote from: Lance on Jul 28, 2011, 16:49:54
I think Simon was saying a full disk scan shouldn't be necessary because the virus should be intercepted upon arrival.
That's overlooking the fact that virus definitions are updated all the time so it's obviously necessary to do a full disc scan from time to time in case anything slipped through previously.
I was interpreting not agreeing :)
I know Lance.. I was just adding to your comment.
Lance interpreted correctly, so I guess
I was wrong.
Where's the Google translator link to idnetterspeak?
No need, Steve. I'm always wrong.
Nah. You made a correct conclusion. "The virus checker should stop the virus". But we now have new information "virus checkers react not prevent in most instances. To react, a virus needs to be out in the wild first."
Like when you set out on a journey, your not "wrong" in your route plan if someone else blocks the road. ;D
Quote from: Tina on Jul 28, 2011, 11:38:28
Ok 24 hours on from my windows 7 's arrival I'm coping much better :D Sorted out two finger scrolling. The font was sorted by setting a minimum size. Norted was a trail, do I took it off, and just have Avast - is that enough? It's set to do matienance on a wed. The only thing I can't seem to do is check spelling lol. OnFF on my Mac it underlined words in red so I could go back and check. I've got spotify and skype set up. Do I need anything else?
From the Tools menu, select Options and click on the Content tab.
Near the bottom of that tab is a Languages option button - click on that.
You'll then get a Languages window with a drop-down menu labelled "Select a language to add..." and from that menu, your best bet is the
English/United Kingdom [eng-gb] option.
Works for me with spellcheckers...