by botijo » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:53 am
Another one here with Vista Home Premium x64. Although I would say I am one of the strangest people using Windows, as the software I usually run is not the stock software:
Total Commander instead of Windows Explorer
MediaMonkey, The KMPlayer instead of Windows Media Player
Opera Browser instead of Internet Explorer
No Office software installed (although I own MS Office 2003!)
ESET Nod32 as Antivirus
No firewall (router as firewall)
No chat programs (use web versions instead)
IrfanView, Picasa instead of whatever-is-called-that-Windows-has
Windows Live Mail does the job for me
Garmin MapSource works perfectly
For those programs, I can live with UAC, as they do not do strange things but MediaMonkey, which I installed outside Program Files. I play lots of games, and only found a problem with "Beyond Good and Evil", where it tries to install 32bit protection drivers, fails, and erases the game from the harddisk. I always wondered why consoles have the option to have the game run from the disc, while PCs not.
Another one here with Vista Home Premium x64. Although I would say I am one of the strangest people using Windows, as the software I usually run is not the stock software:
Total Commander instead of Windows Explorer
MediaMonkey, The KMPlayer instead of Windows Media Player
Opera Browser instead of Internet Explorer
No Office software installed (although I own MS Office 2003!)
ESET Nod32 as Antivirus
No firewall (router as firewall)
No chat programs (use web versions instead)
IrfanView, Picasa instead of whatever-is-called-that-Windows-has
Windows Live Mail does the job for me
Garmin MapSource works perfectly
For those programs, I can live with UAC, as they do not do strange things but MediaMonkey, which I installed outside Program Files. I play lots of games, and only found a problem with "Beyond Good and Evil", where it tries to install 32bit protection drivers, fails, and erases the game from the harddisk. I always wondered why consoles have the option to have the game run from the disc, while PCs not.