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| Thread ID: 119176 | 2011-07-09 03:56:00 | XP & slimming down security measures. | vandaman (2312) | Press F1 |
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| 1215634 | 2011-07-09 03:56:00 | Hi out there, Longtime since I've visited so forgive me if I tread over trodden ground etc. In the June 2011 PC World mag there is a section under Disaster proof your PC called "slim down your security measures". It mainly deals with Win7 & only having to have MSEssentials & possibly a Spam filter. Is this also true for XP systems? I've got an old P4 with only 512MB RAM but it is RDRAM which is rare as hens teeth or costs a fortune. I only use the PC for browsing, email, the odd you tube clip etc. I currently have Avast antivirus, and ZoneAlarm but uses up too much memory (I updated the Zonealarm sometime ago only to find after its min requirements is 1GB RAM & they suggest removing & installing older version & starting from scratch). Definately slowed the PC down. Any suggestions? |
vandaman (2312) | ||
| 1215635 | 2011-07-09 05:06:00 | I would switch to MSE and use Windows firewall in your place, I run a couple of old P4's that way just fine although they have a bit more ram but not much | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1215636 | 2011-07-23 01:04:00 | I would switch to MSE and use Windows firewall in your place, I run a couple of old P4's that way just fine although they have a bit more ram but not much Thanks Gary. I have since managed to buy some RDRAM relatively cheap (2 x 512) as was advertised as server RAM only but research suggested it would work & it does. All is good with browsing etc. now. Might be of interest: I installed Soluto and turns out Avast takes the most time for booting (almost a minute just for this) so probably will change to MS SE at some point. |
vandaman (2312) | ||
| 1215637 | 2011-07-24 00:38:00 | You may only be able to install MSSE as long as you have SP3 on it. LL |
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