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From Thunderbird running on Windows Vista

Aries...

Brave person :) Still in Beta testing isn't it ? And a mamoth download I
hear ?

Steve...

Back to XP now as neither AVG or Zonealarm run under Vista so I need to
do a little research. Zonealarm is not such a problem as I've got a
firewall on my router and Windows Firewall under Vista, but the two AV
progs recommended by M$ are bloatware.

Aries...

I wonder of Avast would be affected the same way ?

Steve...

Axast is OK so It looks like I will use that under Vista, is it any good?

One interesting point is Vista re allocates your drives. I installed it
on it's own partition and disk under the drive letter G: with my current
XP install on C:, when running under Vista G: is now C: and C: is now D:

Aries...

Did it not ask or inform you it would be doing that?

pmj...

Well, normally, most Operating System Installations (& that would
include Vista) allocate the Drive Letters to the various Drives
(& Partitions on the Drives) according to a strictly defined sequence.

(You can find out what that is, from any of the various Websites that
deal with Operating System Installation & Partitioning & File Systems.)

Each Installation will have the Drive Letters defined by that
Installation & they won't (normally) be the same Letters as in
another Installation

But, sometimes, (depending on whether the Installation of the
other Operating System is initiated from within an already
Installed Operating System), you can sometimes end up with the
Drive Letters being the same.

It sounds as if the Vista Installation was done by Booting from the
Install CD, rather than from within another Installation.

In which case, it wouldn't know anything about which Drives had been
allocated which Letters by the *other* operating System.

Steve...

No, but it's only that way under Vista now I'm back on XP all has
returned to normal.

Aries...

thank goodness for that !

d/l was 3.2Gig but at 710Kbps it's not to bad.

Aries...

Well now, what can I say - of course not LOL