What utility apps are you running on Win7?

I have heard good things about Norton IS 2010, which is surprising giving their history of being resource hogs. Anyone using any good utility apps with success on Win7?

 

Not sure what you mean by "utility apps." But I am running Norton 2010, and it's been very good about resources. In fact, since Norton IS 2009, I've found it to be superior even to ESET Smart Security in terms of resource usage and security (and as supported by AV Comparatives data).

 

I am thinking I may hang onto 12 Ghosts, which has a lot of obscure but useful file management utilities.

 

Interesting, i'm using ESET Smart Security 4 on my Thinkpad and I found that to be quite frugal on resources myself, protection wise I found it to be good too. It's currently just using 29MB of my RAM at the moment, combined with 14 open tabs on Firefox and the usual Windows services it only equate to just 882MB RAM out of 3GB so far. I didn't really toggle much of the services but i'm pretty sure I can get that figure down more further if I did.

At least Symantec are moving in the right direction by cutting out the bloat that plagued their older security software. Though i'm can't be sure how easy it is to fully remove it though once you done with the subscription, are they still using their specialised Norton Removal Tools for this?

 

The two Norton Internet Security 2010 processes are using a total of 7.2MB RAM, and with some programs open, utilizing a total of 1.5GB out of 4GB of RAM.

RAM usage doesn't tell the whole story, though, in fact, you'll feel the CPU usage of an antivirus suite much more readily than its RAM usage. NIS10 does a very good job of using nearly no CPU unless you've left your computer idle for more than 10 minutes, and its very, very frequent updates are entirely transparent, system resource-wise.

 

Malwarebytes, NIS2010 and most importantly Diskeeper 2010.

 

Also Second Copy, which allows me to make backups over my LAN, something that the Windows 7 utility can't do.

 

Also using the Norton 2010 and liking it very much on Win7 on an older laptop, which would feel the pain of resource useage under XP and older versions of Norton.

Built in backup and imaging has been good enough for me. So I don't use Ghost or Acronis atm.

 

"I am thinking I may hang onto 12 Ghosts, which has a lot of obscure but useful file management utilities."

There are no obscure file management utilities.

Renee