600X Question

[kingman99]

Hi

Being that tomorrow is a snow day here in New Jersey l will be playing with my computer. Right now l have nothing on it that l care about and l would love to wipe it clean or as clean as possible.
I have the operating system CD.

Question is that my 600x is running slower and slower probably because of AOL which l will wipe clean and whatever virus's l have picked up and don't know about.

Can l just pop the CD in? Or is it more complicated?

Thanks

[Harryc]

That should work fine, just format the drive and off you go.

[kingman99]

Hi

It's running to the point that l will keep it.

By the way what is the best download for watching movies/video's. Also l will be running Avast unless somebody can think of a better free application?

Thanks

Alan

[ms5133]

VLC for video..Avira (free) for anti virus is what I use..Microsoft Security Essentials is also supposed to be acceptable.

[pkiff]

l will be running Avast unless somebody can think of a better free application?

Avira (free) for anti virus is what I use..Microsoft Security Essentials is also supposed to be acceptable.

I have found that both Avira and Avast (and indeed, all other current anti-virus software whether free or not) cause noticeable slowdowns on an average 600X. You may want to reduce some of the on-access and heuristics settings in such software from whatever comes with the default install profile. Also, I used to use the free version of Avira and switched to Avast because the nag screens on the free version of Avira became quite annoying. I still sometimes turn it off entirely when I'm doing something on my 600X that requires my full CPU attention.

Phil.

[vanaya]

I too like Avira, but I also agree with pkiff the nag screen bites!! If you do a quick google search there are many results on how to disable. Take a look here and there are some pretty simple instructions to disable.