Just bought a new (used) PC

After dealing with my old PC for awhile, I took it in because it was so slow. The place could not even keep it on as it was overheating so badly. The heat sink had even cracked the plastic holder thingy. So, I ended up having to get another, since it would have cost more for them to pullout the trashed motherboard (a U8668D board) find a replacement and rebuild it. While I did like the lay down effect, as opposed to an upright tower, I ended up getting a Dell Optiplex 740, the video is hard in some areas (I think because I use my Sony Bravia as my monitor.) It has an Athlon 64x2 dual core processor 3800 (have no idea if that is good or not, but compared to what I had a broken piece of poo, it's an upgrade), runs on 2ghz and 2gb RAM, Hard drive is 80Gig but I have the external I was using and it's a 1 TB, so I'm a happy camper. It came with the XP disk (never had a computer come with the XP disk before), Kaspersky, internet security 2011, defraggler and other shareware that I would have downloaded onto it like spybot, open office, malwarebytes, Ccleaner.

My question is, should I put Iobit's free system care on it? Or would that work against Kaspersky? I know I can't put Avast on because 2 anti viruses work against each other so, I have been told. Just wanting some input from TFP's techies.....

The sad part is how I got it, I bought it with my small inheritance from my granny. I am also using her Bravia TV. I'd gladly trade it all back to have my granny.

 

Not a techy, but reasonably tech-able.

I haven't used Kapersky, so I'm no help there. Iobit's Advanced system care is always one of the first downloads on any computer I touch. It has always worked well for me and the 'start up manager' is an awesome tool. Another tool you didn't mention, that I really like is RevoUninstaller. It not only uninstalls the program, but also all associated files and folders that the program uninstaller leaves behind.

Maybe someone else will be more helpful.

 

Hi

Kaspersky is a Good piece of virus software. Sits close to the top of reviews and shoot-outs I've read for the last 10 years.

My one strong recommendation is that you get a back-up tool like

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

http://www.symantec.com/themes/theme.jsp?themeid=ghost

Windows has 'system restore' ... a function which if things god very wrong, means you can time-travel the system to a date before things went very wrong.

However, sometimes things go Very Very wrong. In these situation, it is useful to have a copy of Everything on a drive. For example ... say you've installed Windows XP, and have put the programs you are going to use every day, and it is now working properly with your monitor and looks the way you want it. IF you then use a program like I've given links to ... it makes an 'image' of the entire drive. Now suppose every thing's OK for a few months, but then Something Terrible happens ... and all the fiddling in the world and system restore does not work. Then you can write that image back on to the computer. You wipe the slate clean, but without having to go all the way back to initial install of windows and setting up the programs and desktop.

You will, of course, have already been regularly backing up your work-files and content on to that terabyte drive .... AND ... have backed up that terabyte drive onto ANOTHER terabyte drive (Pan .... I ..er ... Lost a terabyte of Data ... by simply NOT backing up my terabyte drive onto another terabyte drive)

Apart from that, I reckon you've got a nice new computer ... I love AMD, and used their chips for years.

Most importantly, may your Granny rest in peace ... part of which needs you to feel very good about this new computer ... knowing that writing about her ... keeping her memory alive as you have just done in your post ... does not get her back in the way you'd most like ... but counts for a heck'v'a lot, as you're sitting here, knowing that part of what she wanted lives on as you are able to do what you are doing here and now.

R I P to your granny, and Sympathy and respect to you.

 

Never heard of RevoUninstaller. Will give it a go a I hate when you uninstall things they leave lots of stuff on my computer. Thanks

 

This is my first AMD Athlon, I've always been an Intel Pentium kinda guy. It's also my first dual core and it is fast. I appreciate the backup links, are they like "Carbonite"? This is also my first Dell, I never thought I'd own one but they must not be too bad as it seems everyone I know has one or has had one.

Thanks Zen, for the sympathy and kind words concerning my granny.Been a tough week, there were times I caught myself on my way to visit her and then realized.... One thing I learned is sometimes it is tougher for the family to accept it than it is for the person themselves. Her decline happened so fast, it was like she waited till she turned 100 and made sure my health was decent then let go and accepted her fate. I know the last few years were tough because she had outlived all her friends.

Rogue, never heard of revouninstaller either, but will check it out I know Iobit system care has an uninstaller also.

 

I found RevoUninstaller on Cnet. I think it was under 'utilities', but a quick search should bring it up. It's amazing how much junk is left behind by built-in uninstallers.