Considering Vista upgrade...bit of advice?

roakes · 14 Feb 2007 at 10:48

Hey all,

Looking to dual boot XP and Vista next month, using Vista primarily with XP as a backup for any problems I run into. Now my only concern is the compatibility with Vista of software that I find essential. Below is a short list of apps that I find essential for running under XP and I was wondering if anyone had tested them under Vista and if so and had problems what alternatives you would recommend?

They are:

AVG Free Antivirus
Kerio Personal Firewall
RealVNC
Filezilla
Nero
Office 2003
AC3/Xvid/Divx codecs
Paint Shop Pro
Winamp
WinRAR
uTorrent
mIRC
Spybot

Obviously the gaming side of things I will leave up to XP for now.

Thanks for your help

Russ

Kojak · 14 Feb 2007 at 11:04

Office 2003 works absolutely fine.
Paint Shop Pro (v7) works fine.

roakes · 14 Feb 2007 at 13:56

Ok just ordered Home Premium 32bit. Any more for any more?

Rebelius · 14 Feb 2007 at 14:04

AVG Free Antivirus
Office 2003
AC3/Xvid/Divx codecs
WinRAR

all work on my 32bit HP

Killa_ken · 14 Feb 2007 at 14:09

Nod32 works fine as to chopshop cs2

You have to download new codecs for divX though

ooEy · 14 Feb 2007 at 14:13

WinRAR, Winamp, uTorrent all work perfik.

Need Nero 7 Pro ( or above for Vista , i think. My Ultra works cool ).

roakes · 14 Feb 2007 at 14:24

What about firewalls?

modo77 · 14 Feb 2007 at 16:49

The Vista one is decent. Not tried any others, but I am behind a router.

roakes · 14 Feb 2007 at 20:06

Ahh right, see there's me and my MS made firewall scepticism

I'm behind a router too so if the Vista firewall is up to the task then I will give it a go

oneilldo · 14 Feb 2007 at 22:23

what about apache?, php? and mySQL?

bledd · 15 Feb 2007 at 01:33

if you only use the codecs for viewing videos (not making them) then use ffdshow

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm

works with Vista x64 in media centre too