Recommend me a "speed up your computer" free download

[Julian]

That's a lot of porn sites you subscribe to!

[therecklessengineer]

What USB devices do you have? Your modem will be fine.

sony mx20 voice recorder. the files are in a msv format that has to be converted to wav . canon  a590 camera.

Yup, quite right. msv is a Sony proprietary format and their codecs only work on Windows or a Mac.

I found this quite a good read as someone's journey to play msv under linux. It captures my feelings of using Windows perfectly.
http://www.valdyas.org/foundobjects/index.cgi/wireless_life/applications/stumped.html

[Tony]

http://linuxmint.com/

But that's probably not the solution that you were looking for. 

Hehe definitely +1 from me.  Running Cinnamon 2.0 + Elune theme on mine now, it's rather nice

[K.H]

That's a lot of porn sites you subscribe to!

I dont subscribe, just the free ones!

[RichardP]

I'd disable all of those except the AVG stuff. If you find something stops working then you can easily go back in and enable that item.

[K.H]

Cheers Richard

[julesandtash]

I suspect swapping AVG for a different antivirus package would help too.
I know some like it but I find it does slow machines down significantly. I currently use microsoft security essentials and it seems a lot faster than AVG ever was

[Jmg]

I'd disable all of those except the AVG stuff. If you find something stops working then you can easily go back in and enable that item.

Agreed, might be worth running hijack this and malwarebytes too. If names are anything to go by Superantispyware doesn't fill me with confidence that it can do it's job although feel free to prove me wrong I'm looking for something to replace AVG to use in my neglected Windows partition.

I found this quite a good read as someone's journey to play msv under linux. It captures my feelings of using Windows perfectly.
http://www.valdyas.org/foundobjects/index.cgi/wireless_life/applications/stumped.html

Oh aye, Vista the entire reason I decided to take a second look at Linux and never looked back.

I suspect swapping AVG for a different antivirus package would help too.
I know some like it but I find it does slow machines down significantly. I currently use microsoft security essentials and it seems a lot faster than AVG ever was

Aye, AVG is rapidly gaining the reputation that Norton had a few years back for taking a lot of processing power to do very little.

My 2nd eldest refuses to be moved from Windows XP and I refuse to pay to put a decent antivirus on an old box that's fairly close to it's final collapse so at the moment she's running the Security essentials thing and a weekly run of Malwarebytes, I wouldn't trust using it to give any personal details but it's running a lot better than it has been in a while. My eldest runs AVG and I'm not sure if that's to blame but her Windows 7 laptop is painful to work with. The other PCs in the house are all Linux (Ubuntu, Lubuntu and Antix) and so far so good although the aging desktop could do with something lighter still (but still user friendly)

[therecklessengineer]

although the aging desktop could do with something lighter still (but still user friendly)

There's nothing like command line web browsing in preventing nasties getting onto your computer.

[Jmg]

That may be true but it would probably be thelast straw the kids needed yo beat me to death with the pc

[Rotary-Motion]

i use the free "AVAST" have done for years and so have alot of other friends / family of mine, never had 1 problem...

[Tony]

Yup, quite right. msv is a Sony proprietary format and their codecs only work on Windows or a Mac.

I found this quite a good read as someone's journey to play msv under linux. It captures my feelings of using Windows perfectly.
http://www.valdyas.org/foundobjects/index.cgi/wireless_life/applications/stumped.html

Interestingly enough I had issues with some video recording gear - it's designed to sit in a bag/van and take raw camera output storing recordings on a removable firewire drive in Apple ProRes format - consequently the drive is Mac OS format.

I bought a firewire card for my work PC to get files on and off, however in Windows the free software only allows mounting read only, and it was rather unreliable even then.

With Linux I just plugged it in and it got mounted read/write and just worked.

I've had similar experiences with Wireless N USB dongles, one of which I can't for the life of me get to work under Windows but is fine with Linux.

[photoman290]

Yup, quite right. msv is a Sony proprietary format and their codecs only work on Windows or a Mac.

I found this quite a good read as someone's journey to play msv under linux. It captures my feelings of using Windows perfectly.
http://www.valdyas.org/foundobjects/index.cgi/wireless_life/applications/stumped.html

Interestingly enough I had issues with some video recording gear - it's designed to sit in a bag/van and take raw camera output storing recordings on a removable firewire drive in Apple ProRes format - consequently the drive is Mac OS format.

I bought a firewire card for my work PC to get files on and off, however in Windows the free software only allows mounting read only, and it was rather unreliable even then.

With Linux I just plugged it in and it got mounted read/write and just worked.

I've had similar experiences with Wireless N USB dongles, one of which I can't for the life of me get to work under Windows but is fine with Linux.

spent ages trying tp find a way of reading msv files under linux. no joy. of course i could spend £300 on a new recorder that outputs wav files, like the zoom one, but as i don't have too many problems with win7 on this machine i will forgo linux for now. also the mx20 is nice and small and indiscreet. useful when recording musicians who get worried if you shove a mike anywhere near them. i always ask first of course. if the recorder looks like a phone they soon forget it is there.