There's no way that AVG dumps anything into Documents and
Settings...
I'd be careful about blanket statements like that about AVG7, after my
well documented WinTV problems which seemed to do anything and dump
things anywhere and however it felt like and uninstall files it had
nothing to do with so that other programs then kindly fell over.
AVG7 is a first release as a free version. I don't know if it's
exactly the same as a previous AVG7 Pro (or whatever the commercial
one was called) but it's probably fair to assume there's at least
token changes which would make it a 'new' program to some extent, so
you'd be finding problems in early releases (old programmers saying,
"by the time it works the retail guys have decleared it's out of date"
That's all I need is a flat contradiction !
Thanks so much.
Check Grisoft forum for more prob's
I did get problems first time I installed it, and the installation
didn't complete. At the time, I was having WinTV problems as well so I
assumed it was to do with that.
After the reformat which cleared out all remnants of WinTV, I've had
no problems with AVG7, although a colleague where I work knows of
people who have had problems. So I don't really know more than to say
that people have had problems and sooner or later got round them one
way or another, although it's required patience and wasted time in
some cases. I was lucky, my second attempt was trouble free.
I've read somewhere recently that a lot more PC programs dump a lot
more information in places you don't normally become aware of them,
because of some desktop.ini (or something like that, can't remember
the proper name) files normally causing individual files or even whole
folder contents to be hidden and so you are never really aware of
them. And this is one of the way that "experts" can tell what you've
been up to because although you've deleted files and emptied the
recycle bin and cleared the documents menus etc etc there are still
traces hidden away where you can't find them unless you know how to
expose of them. AFAIK we have yet to get to this level of paranoia
with hidden files on a QL!
Of course some people are bound to get caught out by Q-Trans's Trash
Can one day I suppose but that's another story.
Back to AVG7, my experience of it under XP has been nothing short of
pleasant once I got rid of that awful WinTV card. And the
documentation was great for helping me to smooth things out when I
added Service Pack 2 which was, errr, an experience.
Once you manage to get AVG7 installed properly you won't regret trying
it. All I can suggest I'm afraid is to try out the related PC forums
for any help you can extract from them.
John Hall wrote:
If the issue has been raised in the (PC software) supplier's forum,
why complain here?
Stuff like this is of course usually best sorted out in the PC forums.
I can say from experience though that if it's related in any way to QL
problems or something the average PCing QLer could sort out quickly
(QPC2 users tend to operate fairly similar systems on the whole or run
into the same type of problems) so I wouldn't definitely say it's a
taboo subject here if it interferes with your QLing as long as you
don't mind too much having other people object to the presence of your
question if their viewpoint is not the same as yours. Another reason
for raising it here (apart fromt he fact that helpful replies are
often so quick here) is that we as QLers aren't always that confident
on PC forums and the like, so it's sometimes worth a quick try here
before resorting to the great big not-so-PC world out there if you
think other QLers might have run into such QL-thwarting problems.
(not really criticising either of you, just trying to point out the
situation with PC problems being relevant or not isn't always that
clear cut)
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Dilwyn Jones
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