Update to Vista: Anti Virus Programs

You should definitely uninstall Windows Live OneCare before upgrading, if you have it. Vista uses a different version, and there is a bug which prevents the XP version from being completely uninstalled after upugrading to Vista, and the Vista version of OneCare thinks it is still there and won't install.

DO NOT upgrade, clean install is the preferred method.

well, Mcafee doesn't work, Symantec doesn't work two of the most popular.

 

I like AVG anti-malware with antivirus, it works with Vista RTM and is free for 60 days.  They do have freeware versions of both.

 

Thanks

Jeff

Avast is toally free.

Here you go:

 

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp
http://www.djdenham.com/Install%20Procedures.htm#Install

Driver Installation:
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&cs=19&docid=1A0C0937D62A8739E0401E0A55174744&journalid=4F1F82483DC811DBAE564F9328EE04A4&l=en&s=gen

 

Save yourself the headache, do not install, ignore ANYTHING the advisor tells you its only basic information and a guess IMO.

 

I have external devices with drivers installed in XP it told me all these devices are fine and will work after the upgrade.  I run the upgrade AFTER I had to copy the contents to the hard drive since running the dvd gave me an Error 0x0.  When Vista came up after the upgrade the devices didn't work and complained there wasn't any drivers and on trying to install drivers gives me file not found errors.

 

Same issues on a fresh install as well.

 

I would wait until companies like Dell who had over 2 years to test drivers in longhorn/vista to actually release something.  I would be happy with pre-release beta drivers.

 

Thanks for reading,

 

Jeff

About McAfee not working.  Did a check with the upgrade assistant, the only problem with McAfee it found was with Personal Firewall plus, but I guess the inbuilt vista firewall should be all you need.

 

Didn't like quickclean either but that's the 2005 version.

Of course Mcafee isn't going to work, neither is Norton because they both want access to the kernel which Microsoft has denied.

 

I am running every flavor of Vista on virtual machines hosted by a three year old Dimension 8300, and everything, I mean everything just works great.