5 things I wish some people wouldn't install on their PCs

[Raithlin]

Stunning article - made me laugh and reflect...

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/06...-on-their-pcs/

[Garyvdh]

yep, multiple anti-virus programs.... just cos there was a free demo on their driver CD (after I already downloaded and installed the LATEST drivers for them)!!! Aaaargh.

These days, I don't give the clients their driver CDs... they are just gonna lose them anyway. I either tape the driver CD inside the case, or I keep it on file.

And it floors me that people still buy a 1.6 Ghz celeron with 512 MB of RAM and then try to load Vista and Office and every other goshdarn program in the universe on it.

When I tell they should not have done that then they say oh but the guy at the computer shop told me that it would run fine.

[ponder]

Except for the antivirus I find the article spot on.

[Drake2007]

Glad to see incredimail on that list.

[milomak]

Except for the antivirus I find the article spot on.

you would advise people to install more than one?

[mic_y]

haha... I would put Norton, Macafee on that list as definite ones. First thing I remove when working on a clients PC.

[Gaz{M}]

Need to read this later...

[ponder]

you would advise people to install more than one?

No, I have not found people running more than one antivirus but I have found them to do everything else on the list.

[milomak]

ahhh. blu had a thread the other day where someone mentioned they were running 2 AVs.

[DJNgoma]

+1 to the list.

[Dude111]

Except for the antivirus I find the article spot on.

Yes its amazingly well written!!

[The_Librarian]

Bonzi Buddy - heard of it.

Incredimail - have seen it in action, and it's full of eyecandy and stuff.

Prefer a simple mail client like Thunderbird.

[Sting]

Also get pee'd off when they load every single game demo they can lay their hands on!

And multiple firewalls!! That really gets me.

[LancelotSA]

In my experience most antivirus programs do not like another to be installed already anyway.... obviously I do not have as much experience as I would like to think!