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Trouble with Torrents (uTorrent) on Windows Vista with McAfee

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: November 9, 2007

My mother recently bought a shiny new dell with Windows Vista on it. I recently got my fingers on it, and it’s pretty darn alright. But I had one problem: starting uTorrent was causing the system to slow down and also drop http traffic… After consulting a friend we found out he had the same [...]

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Essential Software for a Fresh Windows XP Install

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: May 6, 2007

As a personal reminder, and possibly helpful for other people, I’d thought I’d post what software I spend hours installing after hours of installing Windows XP. Security Spybot S&D – Cleans out spy and malware Avast! Anti virus – Free, and good(?) Avira Anti virus – Free, and good(?). Has a annoying screen popping up [...]