[sussex_mug] Re: Windows (Ugh!) on My Mac

[Graham Street]

Hi Michael With my website and hosting business, I'm a partner for ESET/NOD32 so I get to run ESET Smart Security for free. Having said that, its probably unnecessary as I read no emails into the Windoze system and have the XP firewall switched on (and its behind a router). I normally just browse local files to test websites (in IE6/7/8) that I build. If Windoze users ask for advice, I always tell them to avoid any Norton product and I recommend ESET/NOD32 as that's what I was using before I saw the light and switched to Apple Mac a few years ago. Graham on 8/5/09 18:02 Michael Simpson sent the following: Graham, What AV are you using with XP Pro, I'm got Kaspersky it came with Parrallels 4. Michael Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:02:02 -0400 From: grahamstr...@streets-ahead.com To: smug@googlegroups.com Subject: [sussex_mug] Re: Windows (Ugh!) on My Mac I'm running Parallels 4 (I was using version 3 until recently) and XP Pro on both a Mac Pro and a Macbook Pro. No problems at all. The XP Pro was bought from eBay and was fine too, even though it was an OEM version. Around £50 I think. I only needed to install once. As soon as its running under Parallels you make a copy of the folder inside '(your username)/Library/Parallels' (mine is called 'winxp') and that's your WinXP backup in the event Windoze gets screwed somehow. I have a couple of generations stored for this folder. No need for an Windoze backup utilities, although Parallels 4 includes them for free (I think) and also has a snapshot facility. As others have said, avoid Vista as its awful. Regards, Graham on 8/5/09 09:51 Phil Ward sent the following: All, At long last I am going to have to accept the inevitable and run windows on one of my macs. One client keeps writing little windows .exe applications to demonstrate user interfaces and I can no longer come up with any excuse as to why I can't run them. So... Parallels seems the obvious way to go, but since I don't need Vista, is there anything wrong with buying a copy of XP off eBay? Am I likely to be making a big mistake? Thoughts anybody? Phil -- Phil Ward Skype: aphilw E: phil_w...@mac.com E: a.philw...@btinternet.com www.myspace.com/philwardmusic Phil Ward is the exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com Consultant Designer of the Acoustic Energy AE22 nearfield monitor. Windows Live Messenger just got better. Find out more! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group.  To post to this group, send email to smug@googlegroups.com  To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com  For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---