Windows 8 Red Alerta - Warning!

Drew · Mar 24, 2012

Please Be Advised:

There are ads on TV for things to diagnose & fix computer woes. They spew a plethora of rubbish, say they will cure everything under the sun, all the many problems & infections everyone must, already, have (whether they know it or not), that they will speed up your slow, freezing machine, make it run perfectly (again) clean it 100% and even, make your internet connection faster.

There are, @ least, 3 of them... things such as "Finallyfast.com"... wish I could remember the others... FixMyPC or something. Anyway...

DO NOT GET SUCKED IN BY THESE THINGS!!

Do not buy into their rhetoric.
It is crap, misleading, in many ways, falsehoods & plays on naïve, innocent Folks w/ scare tactics & intimidation & a promise of a silver bullet.

Stay the hell away from them, like the plague!!

Do not try them, touch them, contact them or buy anything from them!!

Take this from an IT Pro; these ads should not be allowed on air... they should not be able to pass ethics under the FCC or CRTC.

Regards,
Drew

MikeHawthorne · May 19, 2012

Hi

The truth is that there is software that you can get for free that will keep your computer running fine.

CCleaner

Malware bytes

Defraggler

MSE

Revo Uninstaller

That's about all you need.

I use all of these and almost never have problems other then the ones I cause myself!

I do get quite a few of those.

Mike

davehc · May 20, 2012

Hi Tanzanos.. Just posted this in another thtread, but I guess it agrees with some of your views?
These are taken on my test, medium performance, computer. Dual boot with Windows 7 boot manager, to avoid the deliberate delay in booting Windows 7, with the Windows 8 boot manager. The start up, so raved about, is to the point where the HD stops activity. (A little while after the Metro appears)

I am not claiming these as authorative benchmarking .- just my own tests, out of curiosity. To my regret, I do not get the incredible claims which I am constantly reading in forums.

Windows 7 Windows 8
Start-up (Bios to useable desktop/Metro inc Internet connectionan cessation of HD activity.).
43 secs 41.5 secs
Open IE to Google
1.2 secs 1.1 secs
Open IE to webpage
4.4 secs 4.2 secs
Open LIve Mail (No Mail tocollect, inc Live login)
5.2 secs 5.4 secs
Paint
1.0 secs 1.2 secs
Control Panel .
2 secs . 4 secs

But, there is a small move forward, which might improve with the RTM. Nothing there, though, that I am getting excited about!

MikeHawthorne · May 20, 2012

"I keep hearing how Win8 is faster than win7. OK so everyone let us throw away our cars and all go buy a Ferrari!"

The answer is YES!

The day that I can buy a new Ferrari for the price of my Honda Accord I'll be the first one in line at the dealership!

A better question is, should we just keep driving our gas hog SUV because we always have, no matter what the price of gas is?

In computers speed is everything, or we'd still be running our 486 25 mhz processors.

In a couple of years I'll be buying a new computer, not because I can't do what I do on my present one, but because it will be FASTER!

Mike

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