Re: Confusion Kaspersky requirements

On Thu, 4 May 2006 11:37:14 -0400, "Colon Terminus"
<Colon_Terminus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Its really quite simple ... IE6 has a quite noticeable performance impact on
certain computers.
SP4 causes BSODs in some computers.

This particular 6 1/2 year old computer happily runs Win2K/SP3 with IE 5.01.
Both of the above conditions apply.

I have loaded a fresh install of Win2K/SP1 with no additional software other
than the chipset drivers (I'll refer to this as "The Base") . Upgrading The
Base to IE 5.5 or 6 causes a noticeable slowdown in performance. Upgrading
The Base to SP3 (I've always skipped SP2) goes smoothly and there are no
performance issues. Upgrading The Base or SP3 install to SP4 causes a BSOD
upon first reboot. I no longer remember the Stop Code, nor do I care.

This computer, built in November 1999 (I'm not absollutely positive about
that date) runs fine without IE6 or SP4. Its based on an Abit VP6 with dual
1GHz P-IIIs with 1.5GB SDRAM, a 40GB O/S drive and 2 240GB RAID 0 arrays,
one for input and one for output. It merrily does video processing all day
every day. I have more than adequate safeguards in place to avoid nasties
that would arrive via the web or email.

The downside of not having IE6 is that I'm denied access to certain websites
and some small amount of software refuses to install. I consider that THEIR
problem, not MY problem. Intuit lost me as a customer because of this but it
was Peachtree's gain. The websites that don't work fail mostly on e-commerce
order forms. Who's loss is that? Certainly not mine, I just simply move on
to another vendor. All I've lost is a few minutes of shopping time.

Seems to me you should have sufficient resources to not notice the
differences in speed when upgrading to IE6. I'm running Win 2K Pro
on a machine that was built new one year ago. It has a AMD Duron
1.6 ghz cpu that I run at 1.8 ghz with a 300 mhz effective bus
rate. I have only 256 meg RAM. With IE6, sp4, the rollup and 30+
critical security patches, I haven't encountered any problems, and the
PC seems faster than a speeding bullet to me :) I've had several
different Beta versions of KAV 6 on this PC from time to time, and the
performance hit, while noticeable, isn't enough to make my machine
seem "slow" by any means.

Your description of your situation strikes me as quite odd. 1 ghz
PIIIs with tons of RAM as you have should also be faster than a
speeding bullet, and I wouldn't expect to see what you've described.
But of course I don't do video processing all day either.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

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