Trouble with Torrents (uTorrent) on Windows Vista with McAfee

Odd Christer Brovig — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:09:24 +0000

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 problem some months ago. The solution was simple: uninstall mcafee.

So I uninstalled mcafee, and now my linux iso download is blazing. :-)

Btw, you REALLY SHOULD install some other AV after uninstalling mcafee. I’ve been pleased with Avast which is free. Also I’ve heard good words about AVG, Avira and Nod32 (this is one of the best, but payware).

Essential Software for a Fresh Windows XP Install

Odd Christer Brovig — Sun, 06 May 2007 20:07:14 +0000

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 each time it updates though.

Development

Eclipse – My IDE of choice, for Java at least.
VIM – easy, slick text editor.
PuTTY – SSH/Telnet connectivity.
Java – of course.
TortoiseSVN – Subversion client integrated in Windows shell
ArgoUML – Open Source UML diagram editor, can also generate code skeletons

Surfing/Net

Only one(I use GMail, Reader and Calendar from Google for other net stuff.)

Firefox

General purpose

WinSCP – SSH/SCP file transfer.
7-Zip – Open Source file (de)compressor.
WinRAR – file (de)compressor, I still use although 7-Zip takes them all..
Launchy – cool utility that lets you launch apps. by keystrokes.
SyncToy – A nice, and free, utility from Microsoft that let you do backups/syncs of files and folder. E.g. between disks.

Multimedia

VLC – Open Source multimedia player, plays most formats.
foobar2000 – Free and simple mp3/aac/ogg/etc player with low low mem. usage

More suggestions?