upgrading your Nivdia drivers

now this only a suggestion and my experience. When I upgraded to the newest
nvidia drivers I first uninstalled the old ones and then rebooted to the
safe mode and installed the drivers from there.
The reason for this is that Mcafee has no shut off switch and the driver
instructions say to shut down background programs before doing update
especially anti-virus programs. Well the install was fine.
I guess I could have turned everything off using msconfig on second thought.

"BigJim" <> wrote in message
news:. ..
> now this only a suggestion and my experience. When I upgraded to the
> newest nvidia drivers I first uninstalled the old ones and then rebooted
> to the safe mode and installed the drivers from there.
> The reason for this is that Mcafee has no shut off switch and the driver
> instructions say to shut down background programs before doing update
> especially anti-virus programs. Well the install was fine.
> I guess I could have turned everything off using msconfig on second
> thought.

AV programs should always be disabled whenever installing any software.
McAfee and Norton should be uninstalled...forever :>). Seriously those two
AV programs and their related "security" programs have caused people so many
problems. I'm not a pro at this stuff, but fairly knowledgeable and have
"fixed" a lot of friends and relatives computers by removing those companies
software. Machines are so much more responsive and reliable without said
companies programs installed. At least if you run games get rid of them,
it's like upgrading your hardware a couple of levels. Their are good,
reliable AV programs out there, some even free that outperform better and
don't cause problems like you describe. NOD32, AVG and Kaspersky come to
mind immediately.
Bob

"Bob" wrote:

> "BigJim" <> wrote in message
> news:. ..
> > now this only a suggestion and my experience. When I upgraded to the
> > newest nvidia drivers I first uninstalled the old ones and then rebooted
> > to the safe mode and installed the drivers from there.
> > The reason for this is that Mcafee has no shut off switch and the driver
> > instructions say to shut down background programs before doing update
> > especially anti-virus programs. Well the install was fine.
> > I guess I could have turned everything off using msconfig on second
> > thought.
>
> AV programs should always be disabled whenever installing any software.
> McAfee and Norton should be uninstalled...forever :>). Seriously those two
> AV programs and their related "security" programs have caused people so many
> problems. I'm not a pro at this stuff, but fairly knowledgeable and have
> "fixed" a lot of friends and relatives computers by removing those companies
> software. Machines are so much more responsive and reliable without said
> companies programs installed. At least if you run games get rid of them,
> it's like upgrading your hardware a couple of levels. Their are good,
> reliable AV programs out there, some even free that outperform better and
> don't cause problems like you describe. NOD32, AVG and Kaspersky come to
> mind immediately.
> Bob
>
I've NEVER turnoff anything to do an install and I've never had any problems.
I was also under the impression.that Mcafee AV didn't work with Vista
Oh and it does have an "off switch" right click the tray icon and turn it off.
>
>

BigJim spake thusly on 2/23/2007 10:39 PM:
> now this only a suggestion and my experience. When I upgraded to the newest
> nvidia drivers I first uninstalled the old ones and then rebooted to the
> safe mode and installed the drivers from there.

Actually, that's also what NVIDIA says to do in the installation
instructions.


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