John R Bartow
jbartow at winhaven.net
Tue Jan 27 22:29:23 CST 2015
Hi Gustav, Thanks for the tip, I'll give that a try. John B -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:07 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] BitDefender Hi John I can add that I noticed that the vhd disks had grown beyond reasonable size. You can then close the VM, click the "Prepair for shrinking" button in the XP Mode manager, go for coffee, and then click the Compact button. That improves launch a little on a slower machine. As for VMs on Win8 (and Win2012 for that matter) and general usage, remember to access these via the normal RDP client. The monitor access via the Hyper-V Manager is for administration only and, for example, lacks decent copy-paste options between the VM and the mother machine. /gustav -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af John R Bartow Sendt: 27. januar 2015 08:39 Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] BitDefender Prioritet: Høj Hi Gustav, Thank you. I am testing security products and Bit Defender tests well with the labs. That doesn't always hold up in field tests and, of course, doesn't consider things like UI usability. I haven't run a VM on Windows 8.1 yet. Sounds like something to look forward to as XP Mode seems to be getting more troublesome lately. Regards, John B -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:09 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] BitDefender Hi John I do. We installed the free version on our XP Mode VMs when MSE support stopped. It worked quite well because it was as silent as MSE and didn't bother the user with big prompts for upgrading to the paid version. It reported a false positive from time to time but that was it. Recently, however, I noticed that CPU usage was quite high on these machines resulting in a slowdown of applications, mostly old Access versions. Also, Acrobat Reader was a dog. As these VMs are not used for browsing the Internet neither reading e-mail, thus the risk for catching malware is extremely small, we uninstalled "everything" not mandatory, and Acrobot Reader was replaced with Nitro Reader. Now they run with reasonable speed. As a side note, the XP Mode and the old Hyper-V shows its age; I use Windows 8.1 and its newer Hyper-V, and it runs much better. Of course, you need a separate Windows XP Pro license but we have dozens of those. /gustav -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af John R Bartow Sendt: 27. januar 2015 06:33 Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Emne: [dba-Tech] BitDefender Prioritet: Høj Hi List, Does anyone have firsthand, recent experience with Bit Defender Security? If so I'd appreciate a run down. TIA, John B _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com