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Boot camp / Vista questions

HazRutter

HazRutter

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Jan 2, 2009
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Hi, just got a couple of questions regarding vista and boot camp..Im using vista 32 bit ultimate...

1) Could anyone reccomend a free, lightweight, reliable antivirus?

2) In system preferences on mac you can go to start up disk and then click the windows partition and restart to restart into windows (or hold option). My question is, is there anyway to do this in Vista?
 
steveza

steveza

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Feb 20, 2008
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2) You can right click on the boot camp icon in the taskbar/system tray next to the clock.
 
SolRayz

SolRayz

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If your interested, with a copy of VMware Fusion you get a year long subscription to McAfee for free. Well worth if you use your bootcamp partition in parallel.
 
DoFoT9

DoFoT9

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Jun 11, 2007
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1) AVG is perfect forbasic antivirus :)

2) on XP i go into the Control Panel -> Startup Disk then choose the disk.. i dont know if it works the same on Vista..
 
richard.mac

richard.mac

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Feb 2, 2007
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1) AVG free.avg.com

2) there is a diamond shaped Boot Camp icon in the notification area of the taskbar. click it and select "Restart into Mac OS X". also there is a Startup Disk pane in Control Panel.

EDIT: hello DoFy :)
 
HazRutter

HazRutter

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Jan 2, 2009
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I dont have this icon? Could anyone help? I dont even have this thing in control panel? Help?

Thanks for telling me about AvG also!
 
steveza

steveza

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If you have installed the boot camp drivers you should be able to run this file: C:\Program Files\Boot Camp\KbdMgr.exe which will give you the icon in the system tray/taskbar.
 
C

cathyy

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Apr 12, 2008
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Use Avira Antivir. It's better than AVG, other than the pop-up everyday when you update the virus definition file which can be disabled.
 
sosaysiburke

sosaysiburke

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Mar 30, 2009
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its a hole lot easier if you just run the install as administrator because then you can customize your trackpad and little **** like that
 
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