PC dead

[hans jenisch]

Hi.
My PC is dead it was killed by AVAST the very program thats ment to protect. My PC is at moment in repair shop , fingers crossed they can fix it the operating system is at present win7 home premium , and i had the old AVAST which worked well , then it came up for licence renewal , and it would not allow me to renew licence instead they forced me into putting a new version in , well it was nothing but trouble , and last AVAST update i think made it incompatable with win 7 so every time i went to scan PC it locked my PC up , so only way to unlock it was to shut down incorrectly now it cannot even boot up in safe mode hence in shop , just hope they can fix it without destroying my personel files as i was working on 4 XML gauges to replicate the british ww2 R1155 receiver and associate nav gauges for my FSX this project was coming on fine and sofar 4 months of coding , i dont want to lose all this if i can help it so not very happy with AVAST right now.
regards Alan aka Hanns Jenisch

[XLjedi]

Good luck with that. Maybe if looking to run an alternate to Win 11 going forward, you might look into a Linux setup? I didn't know people were hanging on to Win 7.

[Sonarman]

Yes time for an upgrade there probably I believe Steam is dropping support for Windows 7 if it has not already done so. I share your pain a Windows update killed my laptop last week too.

[XenonSurf]

I still have a very well operating XP laptop and all XP apps running very well on it...But I would be very ill-adviced to use it with current security software loaded, with current apps and online.

I also have older Win-7 computers, again all XP and Win-7 programs run perfectly on it, but I use it offline for those programs only - if I happen to have the time and I want to run some 'exclusive' apps that don't run on modern machines with Win 10, Win 11.


Take your Win-7 machine, remove all ridiculous obsolete security software from it, and run it offline only. Use a modern machine for newer apps and online activity.


Greetings,
XS


P.S:
Now I remember, I still have an old Amiga computer from pre-1990, runs perfectly but I hardly use this one because I have emulation sofware en-masse for Amiga programs...
Oh, and I still have the first 'speaking' chess computer too, from 1976 I believe, true original synthetized voice technology...Without securtiy software...It has taken a lot of dust since, so his 'voice' is a bit on the modern rapper style...

[Trabant Dave]

I'm using Windows 11, but have customised it with Classic Shell and Win Aero Tweaker; two bits of free open source software that make W11 act and look like Windows 7. I've been using these for years with no issues.

I hated the W10 interface and started using the two progs, and hated W11 even more!

I have the familiar user-friendly W7 interface with the security and updates of W11.

A win-win in my book.

[hans jenisch]

Hi.
I got my PC back in January , with win 10 installed , apparently my PC cannot take win 11 because motherboard does not have the security chip needed .
I have since then beenn slowly getting my programs reinstalled/recovered as best i can , steam and uboat no problem , but getting FSXA reinstalled to the point where i could start flying again , well that has taken longer then expected , not helped by my internt provider who without warning locked me out of my account and email , which i was using to get info on who i purchased products from , with activation codes , it took over two hours on phone to help desk to get logged back into my account , but still cannot get to emails , i have a complaint in over this , which they should have got in touch within 48 hours this was raised on 24th march still no word from them.
my patience is now running low with VirginMedia an i am considdering further action against them , legal action of course before anyone asks.
regards Alan