{"id":193,"date":"2006-12-15T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T15:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/archives\/193"},"modified":"2006-12-15T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T15:51:18","slug":"maintenance-ie7-why-you-shouldn%e2%80%99t-install-it-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance – IE7 Why you shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t install it. – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

blog.the-erm.com \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb IE7 Why you shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t install it.<\/a><\/p>\n

After working on their computer last night I discovered …
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\nI did an inventory of the running processes\/services on their computer.<\/p>\n

There were a lot of ‘not mandatory, but don’t disable unless you think it’s causing problems’ type programs.<\/p>\n

I decided to give them gaim for an instant messenger vs aol instant messenger. Thats when the weirdness started to occur.<\/p>\n

I’ve never had a problem with zone alarm in all the time I’ve used it. It’s recommended software in my book. -unless you’re using dialup. Some people would beg to differ, but I digress.<\/p>\n

The bug occurs when you fill up your ‘allowed programs’ list. Once it’s full no other program can be enabled\/disabled to access the internet.<\/p>\n

At any rate I did the old uninstall, and reinstall of zone alarm, and all was well. Gaim could access the internet, and the firewall could still be running.<\/p>\n

This was great to have a fresh new list, because I could disable even more services that didn’t need to be running.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if I did the right thing, but I disabled norton go back as well. The system seems to work better without it. – The system being a laptop.<\/p>\n

I still have concerns of leaving kodak running all the time. It just doesn’t seem sane to me. I disabled quite a few things that just didn’t need to be running. There were lots of things that it didn’t make sense to keep running. Like 3-4 network type programs. 1 for wifi, one for lan, even 1 for dialup.<\/p>\n

So I disabled all of them, and a couple of stupid touch pad programs that did nothing as near as I could tell.<\/p>\n

There was a weird program called ‘notebook maximizer’ that just used up 50% of the CPU all the time, and I disabled that. I don’t see how it maximized anything.<\/p>\n

Of all the things I removed, the only program I have any questions about is Go Back.<\/p>\n

I’m a semi-fan of norton. When I was running windows there was a diagnosis tool that if you let it run all the time, it seriously degraded performance. They have a good anti-virus, but there are free ones out there now, and personally I’d rather just go with a free one. Of course I’m not stupid when it comes to computers. I know the security threats, and I know when I’m about to do something a little stupid.<\/p>\n

It was a great learning experience. I learned more about windows services, and how to disable them. You’ve got to be careful when you do that stuff, considering I searched on every program\/service before I disabled it I knew what it was, where it went, and what to do with it.<\/p>\n

Speedupmypc did nothing but sit there with a splash screen … didn’t do much. Even after clearing out a bunch of extra processes. So that’s a waste of time. The site advertising it knew about all the running programs. So I figured I’d mention it.<\/p>\n

This all being said maybe<\/i> IE7 works perfectly, I however have my doubts, and I’m not in any hurry to recommend it as a browser. Firefox is much more stable.<\/p>\n

Erm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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