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Not Bad I had not hear of this at all. I installed it in my main pc and it gave me things like "make your internet connection faster by allowing more connections", "turn phising on" and it's all a click away to be "fix". I'm not saying that it's great for me but I can see how for novices this should help them maintain their computers running smoothly.

I hope it finds drivers and updates to software that is not releated to microsoft but i'm just dreaming.

DarkSages

As an FYI: Microsoft Update already does do driver updates for drivers that don't come from Microsoft (but the company making the drive has to sign up for the program with Microsoft to participate)

For example, when I installed the Microsoft security patch yesterday I also had a new driver for my TV Tuner card available for update.

This should almost be implamented by default in windows. (able to disable as well though) but it would be great for people that dont know how to delete cookies or how to improve speed ect.

The best could be an integration of this PC Advisor within Windows Defender as a built in feature. it could be cool.

Is this a paid ad? If so, it should say so. Otherwise the waters are muddied between what's a paid ad and what isn't. There's just ad copy there. Even the forceful title "DOWNLOAD Microsoft PC Advisor" Wow, can't be bothered commenting on it at all? Just copying the whole text from some other site?

Here's the source, copied verbatim: www.softpedia.com/.../Microsoft-PC-Advisor.shtml

mikegalos

Yeah I knew that but I guess I am hoping for more drivers that install and get updated with out thinking about it. Don't get me wrong most of them already do in vista but I wish that all of them would just install no hassles.

DarkSages

Vista can update any and all of them. If the vendor doesn't choose to participate in the Microsoft Update program, though, they're the ones to yell at. (And I have done just that at a few of my vendors)

believe it or not the Acer $400 laptop has it's own similar utility. I am not sure how much resources it uses, but it seems pretty fast.

Wow, a legit post about my laptop!

Another layer of crap to slow down things... As if we needed it !

daveinla

Yeah. A utility that runs a 1 minute long test once a week is a real system killer...

Mike,

It looks like these people do only two things here:

1. If the post is about Apple, they whine and whine about how Paul's anti-Apple.

2. If not, they find any excuse to bash Microsoft and present personal opinions and opinions expressed on personal blogs like DF as proof that "M$" sucks.

This tool is useful for people with little or no computer knowledge. It's like Windows Defender for the rest of the PC.

"Yeah. A utility that runs a 1 minute long test once a week is a real system killer..."

Windows needs to many layers as it is. The must haves of anti-virus, anti-spyware simply point to an inferior, badly designed operating system. Windows becomes (although it is from the beginning) a weighted down dog with all this extra crap you have to add on so that you're not attacked.

"This tool is useful for people with little or no computer knowledge."

This is exactly why Vista is not a good OS for someone with little or no computer knowledge. OS X is much superior for those people. As well as for experts.

>>ontinuously monitors your PC<<

From MS?

No thanks.

Um, how is this different from the Problems Reports and Solution thingy in Vista?  I'm guessing this is part OneCare, part Vista stuff that's made [mostly just to be] compatible with XP (?).

This is exactly why Vista is not a good OS for someone with little or no computer knowledge. OS X is much superior for those people. As well as for experts.

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So the fact that Apple doesn't offer something called "Apple Mac Advisor" makes OS X a superior OS? Does this necessarily mean mac users do not need advices? I don't think so.

"So the fact that Apple doesn't offer something called "Apple Mac Advisor" makes OS X a superior OS? Does this necessarily mean mac users do not need advices? I don't think so."

One of the large number of reasons why OS X is superior to Vista is because people don't have to deal with anti-virus, anti-spyware and such pieces software. They don't need protection because the OS is superior. That software are the plugs to fill in the many holes that Vista has in it's design.

@robertsjoe: Although this site miraculously attracts a lot of really hard core apple fans, your posts easily put you into the top 3. Respect.

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yep, easily in the top3.

So tell us, robertsjoe, what would a general mac user do if they were compromised, seeing as "they don't need protection"?

I reckon some security analysists and firms would disagree with you.

"what would a general mac user do if they were compromised"

It's happened already to clients of a friend of mine.  He works for one of Canada's biggest security firms.

Apple just went into deny mode.

BTW:  This program is pretty neat.  The tutorials are awesome.  I wonder if they have an OEM license for this because I'd like to preinstall this on new computers.

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