Bigfix

[Kawliga]

I recently purchased a new Gateway laptop and am in the process of
learning all it's features. I immediately noticed a program running
all the time called Bigfix and did some research. However I am very
skeptical about these type of programs claiming to keep your computer
running well for you. I thought I would check with the experts in this
group to see if they had any good or bad comments to say about this
program before I delete it from my computer. Any advice about this
would be greatly appreciated. The o.s. is windows Vista.

Kawliga

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Read the following:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-14-2004/0002276481&EDATE

BigFix provides critical system-specific information
to users, and identifies and resolves problems that affect users' systems
before they occur."

I would not recommend uninstalling it.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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I recently purchased a new Gateway laptop and am in the process of
learning all it's features. I immediately noticed a program running
all the time called Bigfix and did some research. However I am very
skeptical about these type of programs claiming to keep your computer
running well for you. I thought I would check with the experts in this
group to see if they had any good or bad comments to say about this
program before I delete it from my computer. Any advice about this
would be greatly appreciated. The o.s. is windows Vista.

Kawliga

 

[Malke]

I recently purchased a new Gateway laptop and am in the process of
learning all it's features. I immediately noticed a program running
all the time called Bigfix and did some research. However I am very
skeptical about these type of programs claiming to keep your computer
running well for you. I thought I would check with the experts in this
group to see if they had any good or bad comments to say about this
program before I delete it from my computer. Any advice about this
would be greatly appreciated. The o.s. is windows Vista.

Kawliga

Actually, in spite of the advice you got from Mr. Frisch, I always
uninstall BigFix on clients' machines and have done so for years without
any problems whatsoever. Gateway has had that program from XP on (maybe
even earlier, I don't remember) and it is basically useless and
unnecessary. I don't like invasive programs like that and in my
experience, they hinder rather than help.

Keep your computer well maintained, your operating system and major
programs updated, practice Safe Hex on the Internet, and your machine
will run just fine for years.


Malke

 

[Saucy]

I recently purchased a new Gateway laptop and am in the process of
learning all it's features. I immediately noticed a program running
all the time called Bigfix and did some research. However I am very
skeptical about these type of programs claiming to keep your computer
running well for you. I thought I would check with the experts in this
group to see if they had any good or bad comments to say about this
program before I delete it from my computer. Any advice about this
would be greatly appreciated. The o.s. is windows Vista.

Kawliga

This is a comment, not advice. Personally, I do not like 2nd and 3rd party
software that doesn't just run on the OS but rather gets into the OS's
workings [as if the Acer, HP or Gateway programmers think they can do a
better job of Windows than Microsoft]. IMHO, the 2nd and 3rd party software
just slows things down, bogs the computer and in the end don't really offer
much over and above what the OS offers anyway. And, if poorly written, these
2nd and 3rd party sofwares can actually screw up the works. I don't know how
deeply Bigfix is tentacled into Windows, but if you could just prevent it
from running at boot [not uninstall it] and see how everything goes before
actually uninstalling it? Create a System Restore Point before making system
changes. If the computer is under warranty check the conditions of your
warranty.

Saucy

 

[Kawliga]

I recently purchased a new Gateway laptop and am in the process of
learning all it's features. I immediately noticed a program running
all the time called Bigfix and did some research. However I am very
skeptical about these type of programs claiming to keep your computer
running well for you. I thought I would check with the experts in this
group to see if they had any good or bad comments to say about this
program before I delete it from my computer. Any advice about this
would be greatly appreciated. The o.s. is windows Vista.

Kawliga

I wish to thank everyone for their personal opinions. I decided to
remove Bigfix from my system as I keep my computer updated at all
times.

Kawliga