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Utilities That Work

crosstrainer

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Posted January 21, 2009 at 5:12PM

With 7. I will add to this as I find / try them, so far:

Ccleaner (works fine, no issues)

JK Defrag (as above) Since the built in defrag in 7 is just as bad as the one in Vista (I've asked about this so will let everyone know what they have to say) I think they may have given up since so many third party defrag programmes are better and faster.

AVG8 free version is fine

Superantispyware is fine

Will add as I go.

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Devil Fish

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Posted January 21, 2009 at 6:28PM

CDburnerXP
Avira Anti vir
Auslogics disk dfrag
open office 3.0

all working with no issues

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JYPX

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Posted January 26, 2009 at 9:18AM

Have been looking at what seems to me to be a novel Firewall solution. Vista Firewall Control is a small application which integrates with the Windows 7 firewall to give control over outbound traffic without having to configure that part of the Windows firewall. It seems to work quite well and is very simple to use. It detects any software attempting outbound traffic and presents four options. Allow once. Allways allow . Deny once. Allways deny. And it's free.
click here


I use Outpost with XP but they don't have a version ready for the beta - yet.

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bremner

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Posted January 26, 2009 at 11:58AM

In your other thread you say don't use Superantispyware. click here

Have you found a fix?

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crosstrainer

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Posted January 26, 2009 at 1:10PM

Not on my AMD test machine, although others have had more luck by disabling it in msconfig (after the BSOD) and then running it. Didn't work for me though.

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crosstrainer

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Posted January 26, 2009 at 4:11PM

Doom3 (with the last patch (all the Doom games run in SLI with the BETA driver from Nvidia)

Adaware AE

Cant get Nero to work, but as mentioned above, god old XP burner pro works fine:

click here

All features work correctly, including ISO file burning.

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harold s

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Posted February 28, 2009 at 2:19PM

Have loaded Nero, plus a number of old programs for my 8 year old still camara and vidio camara all using compatability mode. have noticed a slow down with all the extra loaded.still beter than XP Pro

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FreeCell

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Posted April 23, 2009 at 12:44PM

Nero Essentials v7.0 loads(but if you allow it to update then it removes the old version and doesn't install the update!) Not tried burning a disc yet though.
LightScribe function with Nero didn't install but LightScribe software based on HP did.

Audacity

CoffeCup Free FTP v4.0

SyncBack SE

Avery Design Pro Lite V5.0

Whisper 32 (surprising as this little password wallet application was written for Win 95!)

Also tried MS Money 2000 and MS Frontpage 2000 and both seem to work fine.

So far only had problems with a webcam and with a networked all-in-one from HP. Printer installs fine but Vista driver/software doesn't work so still trying to sort out scanning functions. May be simpler if it was USB connected but, hey, where is the challenge in that!

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iambeavis

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Posted May 6, 2009 at 9:49AM

Macrium reflect - click here - is disk imaging software similar to Acronis TI and the free version works with Windows 7. Being free, it's slightly less well featured than the commercial version, but it fulfills it's main function very well and, being free, it's a bit of a bargain.

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rawprawn

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Posted May 14, 2009 at 3:30PM

Here is what I have installed with no problems.
Avast
MS Money 2002
Acronis
SpywareBlaster
MalwareBytes Pro
RoboForm
WinPatrol

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crosstrainer

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Posted May 16, 2009 at 9:32AM

Are you going to install RC1 or wait for the official release?

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