Nero and ZoneAlarm

[Guest]

I have been thinking about upgrading to Vista from Windows XP SP2 but there
are two programs that I really like which are Nero 6.0.0.13 and ZoneAlarm
Anti Virus. Has anyone performed an upgrade with these two programs in place.
I know I would disable my Anti Virus when installing Vista but would I still
be able to keep these two programs on my computer and utilize them as I did
in XP. I ran the upgrade advisor and it said that I would have to uninstall
Nero but I have read that many people kept Nere and it is running just fine.

 

[Richard Urban]

There is no version of ZA that is Vista compatible. You MUST uninstall ZA
before you upgrade.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Tom Willett]

From what I've been reading, Nero 7 is the Vista compatible version.
ZoneAlarm is not compatible with Vista.
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conte...sta.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en&lid=ts_vista


|I have been thinking about upgrading to Vista from Windows XP SP2 but there
| are two programs that I really like which are Nero 6.0.0.13 and ZoneAlarm
| Anti Virus. Has anyone performed an upgrade with these two programs in
place.
| I know I would disable my Anti Virus when installing Vista but would I
still
| be able to keep these two programs on my computer and utilize them as I
did
| in XP. I ran the upgrade advisor and it said that I would have to
uninstall
| Nero but I have read that many people kept Nere and it is running just
fine.

 

[Guest]

Oracle:
Nero 6 is incompatible with Vista.
You should use the latest one (Nero 7.7.5.1) which is Vista compatible.
Carlos

 

[Robbie]

We have the same concerns about ZoneAlarm. It is a fine product and we
want to use it on Vista (in our instance it is actually Longhorn, but
most of the OS code is the same).
Zone Alarm is far superior to Vista's firewall and I hope that ZoneLabs
will release a compatible product. Note that you must enable Vista's
firewall to use Remote Desktop unless there is a work around to
circumvent this limitation.
This is ZoneLabs' comment thus far:

Quote
This robust security requires a deeper level of integration with the
operating system than other security solutions. Because Vista is such a
major overhaul to the Windows operating system, we are busy in our
development efforts to ensure that new Vista-compatible versions of
ZoneAlarm will live up to our and your high standards of protection. We
anticipate delivering Vista-compatible versions in the coming months
after January 2007 (Microsoft’s Vista planned release date). Due to the
different needs and functionality of this new operating system, features
and functionality on 2000/XP and Vista may differ from our current release.
Unquote

See: http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/vista.jsp

I have read that Nero 6+ is compatible with Vista. We use Nero on a
regular basis, but haven't tried it with Vista.
I would recommend using Nero 6+ rather than Nero 7 because Nero 7 is
reported to have a DRM limitation that is not present in 6+

 

[Guest]

Hi
Nero 6 XXXX is incompatible with Vista. I myself had this issue and ended up
biting the bullet and upgrading to nero 7 reloaded.

From my understanding, Nero state that 7 realoaded is the only officially
Vista supported version. RE Zone Alarm, do you know which version yuo are
running.

On another note, a clean install of Vista might be a more stable alternative
to upgrading. I hope this helps.

RB

 

[Joe]

Another approach - is to load VPC (free from M$) and load XP on it - it is
really fast and lastest beta works excellant with Vista. Then you can keep
you old Nero. I have noted however; the latest version of Nero - seems to
work faster. My machine was XP and I installed fresh copy of Vista Ultimate
and a full feature movie that used to take 50 to 60 minutes to burn - now
only takes 30 to 40 minutes. Not sure if the encoders have improved or if
how Nero integrates with Vista is better - but new Nero is faster at
encoding on Vista - of course movies should always be burnt as slow as
possible 1x or 2x max.

 

[Rock]

I have been thinking about upgrading to Vista from Windows XP SP2 but there
are two programs that I really like which are Nero 6.0.0.13 and ZoneAlarm
Anti Virus. Has anyone performed an upgrade with these two programs in
place.
I know I would disable my Anti Virus when installing Vista but would I
still
be able to keep these two programs on my computer and utilize them as I
did
in XP. I ran the upgrade advisor and it said that I would have to
uninstall
Nero but I have read that many people kept Nere and it is running just
fine.

Neither one is Vista compatible. Uninstall before doing the upgrade. For
AV in Vista there is Avast and AVG, both free, along with other paid
versions that work fine.

 

[Scott]

[Default] On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:42:57 -0500, Robbie

We have the same concerns about ZoneAlarm. It is a fine product and we
want to use it on Vista (in our instance it is actually Longhorn, but
most of the OS code is the same).
Zone Alarm is far superior to Vista's firewall and I hope that ZoneLabs
will release a compatible product. Note that you must enable Vista's
firewall to use Remote Desktop unless there is a work around to
circumvent this limitation.
This is ZoneLabs' comment thus far:

Quote
This robust security requires a deeper level of integration with the
operating system than other security solutions. Because Vista is such a
major overhaul to the Windows operating system, we are busy in our
development efforts to ensure that new Vista-compatible versions of
ZoneAlarm will live up to our and your high standards of protection. We
anticipate delivering Vista-compatible versions in the coming months
after January 2007 (Microsoft’s Vista planned release date). Due to the
different needs and functionality of this new operating system, features
and functionality on 2000/XP and Vista may differ from our current release.
Unquote

Which raises the question: "WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU DURING THE
DEVELOPMENT PHASE, ZONELABS"?