re: How to format a hard drive. Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 9:07 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |Norton is a heavy resources user and if you don't want that | Mac | True--as far as it goes--but it doesn't mention that (as Vicky as found out) Norton can also be difficult to remove. |I find that it is better to use AVG Free Home Edition | Yup. No reservations there. |and Zone Alarm Free Home firewall. | One caveat there: Recent versions of ZA have become bloated--while adding no new protections. (Indeed, they REMOVED a feature that I liked: a scrollable list of folks trying to ping you). Old versions of ZA have all the protection that the new ones do. (Firewalls do NOT need to be "updated".) http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=zalarm Written in response to: How to format a hard drive. (Cam: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 6:20 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] how to drain a hard drive (Vicky: Tue, Nov 15, 2005, 10:12 am) Reformatting is pretty final (Kiwi: Tue, Nov 15, 2005, 12:53 pm) To understand what it is, and what a reinstall requires, it will cost you (Kiwi: Fri, Nov 18, 2005, 6:00 am) re: To understand what it is, and what a reinstall requires, it will cost you (Vicky: Fri, Nov 18, 2005, 6:44 am) re: To understand what it is, and what a reinstall requires, it will cost you (Kiwi: Fri, Nov 18, 2005, 7:24 am) re: To understand what it is, and what a reinstall requires, it will cost you (Vicky: Fri, Nov 18, 2005, 9:13 am) re: how to drain a hard drive (gewg_: Tue, Nov 15, 2005, 1:16 pm) "Draining" a PC (Kiwi: Tue, Nov 15, 2005, 2:14 pm) re: "Draining" a PC (gewg_: Tue, Nov 15, 2005, 2:32 pm) re: "Draining" a PC (normanw: Tue, Nov 15, 2005, 4:42 pm) re: how to drain a hard drive (Ed: Tue, Nov 15, 2005, 11:49 pm) How to format a hard drive. (Cam: Wed, Nov 16, 2005, 6:20 am) re: How to format a hard drive. (gewg_: Wed, Nov 16, 2005, 9:07 am) re: how to drain a hard drive (gabriele hauschild: Thu, Nov 17, 2005, 7:43 pm) re: how to drain a hard drive (Vicky: Fri, Nov 18, 2005, 5:26 am) re: how to drain a hard drive -- Reinstall (no CD) (gewg_: Fri, Nov 18, 2005, 9:36 am) re: how to drain a hard drive -- Reinstall (no CD) (Vicky: Fri, Nov 18, 2005, 10:34 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum