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I think you misunderstand me to be advocating using XP still. Certainly not and I've been free of it for quite a while now. I'm merely playing devils advocate as the "patch brigade" particularly annoy me.
But that is what an OS does... run several different programs at once. You don't need to isolate them in different VMs, just run 8 things in parallel on one OS each one running one thread and in different subdirectories. I'm 99.999% certain it will be faster that way.Not at all since each one is rendering a different film or episode of a boxset.
On my home Windows 8.1 boxes, I don't run any additional AV or FW software on them. I didn't run anything other than MSE on Windows 7.On a slightly different note when I get new Pc tomorrow which AV & FW would people recommend? Have used commodore/ avg and avast in the past but ended up with MSE recently.
I stopped using commodo because at one point it became very resource hungry, AVG started off ok but again seem to get a bit bloated. Avast suddenly decided it didn't like any firewall i installed & caused loads of issues so I ended up with MSE which to be fair seemed to do the job along with Zone Alarm Firewall for the last year.
Just wondering what recommendations are for my new one which will be running Win7. Have seen good reviews for commodo AV & FW suite and Avast - or shall I stick to MSE & zone alarm?
.... You should avoid using Microsoft Essentials as Microsoft themselves admit that it is basic and doesn't offer complete protection.
Can you elaborate on the 8 Pro client hyper whatever thingumy?For those wanting 7 for xp mode, 8 Pro includes client hyper v which is more secure...
Can anyone recommend a good value source of Win7? I need 7 for the XP compat mode
Hyper-v is MS's virtualization software, as used in enterprise etc. Similar to VMWare but obviously I'd say better. 8 Pro has it built in so can act as a VM host for other OSs including XP. Hyper-V is enterprise grade, compared to the more consumer based Virtual PC technology in 7, so there is solid isolation between host and VM which adds some extra protection - I.e. the VM is sandboxes from host. That doesn't mean it is risk free though, a compromised OS on the VM can still do other damage....Can you elaborate on the 8 Pro client hyper whatever thingumy?
Just started getting 8 or so emails pointing me to obviously dubious sites. All purporting to come from the same person. I sent him a txt warning of a possible infection. Before he even read the txt, he was on the phone to me asking about issues on his machine. I asked him which OS he used and, yep, you guessed it. It's started already.
Hyper-v is MS's virtualization software, as used in enterprise etc. Similar to VMWare but obviously I'd say better.
Hyper v is a piece of proverbial to set up. Ad or not.Do you think hyper-v is easier to set up and use than ESXi / vSphere? I don't. Maybe it works better in an active directory environment, but in ours (workgroup, we have no need for a domain) it doesn't.
I'm not sure whether by "proverbial" you mean number ones (so very easy) or number twos (so a right PITA). I'm in the "right PITA" camp. Edited highlights of my trials and tribulations :Hyper v is a piece of proverbial to set up. Ad or not.
I'd say it was "better" in terms of integrating to a large enterprise environment that uses system centre, basically. Basic virtualization is comparable between esx and hyper v, it's a commodity. The difference is in the management and operational layer that drives it. I'm biased though! ;-)Do you think hyper-v is easier to set up and use than ESXi / vSphere? I don't. Maybe it works better in an active directory environment, but in ours (workgroup, we have no need for a domain) it doesn't.
I know you were only kidding but they run XP embedded with a custom MS support agreement in a VERY secure environment. So yes, your money is just as safe as 6 months ago
Nothing is secure if you can gain physical access.Well, it wasn't that safe 4 months ago.....
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...ed-usb-sticks-yes-most-atms-still-run-windows
Which was the script I was using, and it claimed that the client and server were both correctly configured and could talk to each other. RSAT was not of the same opinion.Hvremote is the script to use.
Mint is good. But so is Kubuntu. You get the slickness and quality of Ubuntu without the Ubuntu broken UI. I also have Xubuntu on my oldest PC. Which is nice to use, but appears to lack some goodies that Mint and Kubuntu have.If you're going Linux, try Mint, not Ubuntu. It tends to be a little too bleeding edge and will occasionally break (and I develop Linux device drivers for a living....).