Reasons of Choice

The reason i have chosen these programs for my virtual pc is mostly due to personal preference. AVG and COMODO are useful programs as well as being free, CCCP is useful so that if this pc requires to run a certain type of movie file it will not have any errors, this program is also free. Ultra defragger is better than the standard windows defragmention system, however i suspect that there is a better system than ultra defragger. Defragging will aid by moving important data and improving system speed. WinRar is an excellent compression system which is a far better choice over winzip the standard system. This however is quite a drain on the system, with this many programs running and due to the fact it is of a lower grade in terms of hardware, this will cause the system to run slower.

Compression and Back-ups

This week i have tryed to back-up my virtual pc. Using "MicroSoft backup" i started a back-up, however this work would take 2 hours and 45 minuties and i did not have enough time. So i used "WinRar" and compressed the files i wanted to keep most and then placed them on my pen drive.

{MS Back-up running}

{WinRar Compressing}

Defragger

I have Defragged my virtual hard drive using a defragmention tool called Ultra Defragger. The process was quite lengthy however the result was a fragment-free hard drive.

{Set-up}

{Installed}

{Analysing}

{Defragging}

Installing Firewall

Last week i installed a firewall software called COMODO but i forgot to update my blog due to time. Regardless my software installed correctly and is now protected by high level securtiy.

Utility's Installed

This week i installed the Combined Community Codec Pack and windows media player 10. I also installed the latest MSN this however proved to be a fruitless venture because MSN had problems connecting through the proxy server. WinRar was also installed.

{CCCP settings after install}

{Windows Media Player 10 installing}

{MSN Installing}

{WinRar Install Screen}

AVG Virus Install

This week now that i had access to the World Wide Web i downloaded the Anti virus software AVG 7.5 (Free edition).


Then i installed the soft ware and set it up so that a daliy scan would comence at 10:00Am and to look for updates from 10:00Am to 11:00Am.



This ensures i have a secure system that can deal with attacks from the outside.

Virtual PC and the World Wide Web

This is the first virtual pc that i have set up and after a grueling amount of boredom i have the final result. A fully useable pc with windows XP fully installed.


However because it was set up behind a proxy the internet was not working.


So i accessed the internet by linking through the proxy server.

Which finally left me able to access the internet as found below.

First Blog Entry.

This is my first Blog entry for the BTEC unit 2 section of the course.