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Made the switch from Mac to Windows for my business, have a few questions

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Straylight Run

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First of all I'd like to say thanks in advance!

I finally made the switch back from Mac to Windows for my business, and have a few questions about software. All 3 of my computers for my business are running on Windows 7 64 bit.

First:
Quickbooks 2010

IS anyone running this program on windows 7 with success? I've heard mixed reviews as far as compatibility using Quickbooks 2010 with Windows 7. I just need a program like this to keep track of expenses and what not, nothing to serious.

Second:
Video Editing

I'm looking for a program that will let me do some minor editing and burn my video from my video camera on to blu ray disks. I have a Canon HFS 100, and it records in AVCHD so I am looking for good recommendations on good video editing software that isnt filled with bloat that will give me good performance and work with AVCHD.

Third:
Antivirus

I know that this subject has been beat to death, so I'll keep it simple MSE+Malwarebytes or Eset?

Fourth:
Microsoft office 2007 or 2010?

I need a program that will help me make brochures.

Thanks again
 
I can only address the Office 2007 vs. 2010 question.

Go with 2010. imo, it's faster and just feels like it's put together better. It's like the difference between Vista and Windows 7. Don't get me wrong. I'm not one of those who thinks Vista sucks. Vista was always solid for me. Windows 7 is just more refined. Same thing for Office 2010.
 
I can answer a few, I know my rents are using quickbooks with a win7x64 machine I built them for their business...can't remember the year though. They haven't said a peep about it, which means it must be working.


Also, I'd go MSE+malwarebytes.

I've just played with the beta of 2010 office, and really not much at that, but I'd say overall its pretty solid.
 
mse+malwarebytes (or spybot) does the trick.

64bit is far less vulnerable.

disable flash
disable java
keep acrobat/reader up to date

office 2010 - once it is for sale 2007 is no longer for sale unless downgrading. that is how microsoft rolls.
 
Thanks guys. I have a maingear shift that I game on also, which is why i asked about lightweight antivirus software.

Where should I disable flash and java?

Thanks.
 
You also need to realize that MSE is free for non-commercial use only. If you want the commercial version, it's called ForeFront.
 
mse is commercial use in home business - forefront is for non-home-business work.

besides in a corporate environment you need auditing etc. SEP works really well , sepm for large corporate and sep small business for small companies to manager the machines. it's important to know when you have 20 pc's if one isn't updating or if policy changes are not functioning.
 
To answer your video editing question. If you want to do semi-serious consumer type editing (so more than just a little cutting and rearranging) I would recommend the consumer level Sony Vegas. I've been pretty happy with it and it has native support for Blu-Ray. Only $80 or something like that, so not too bad for some decently powerful video editing tools. It took me a little getting used to the layout, but once I did, it all makes good sense
 
blinblue said:
To answer your video editing question. If you want to do semi-serious consumer type editing (so more than just a little cutting and rearranging) I would recommend the consumer level Sony Vegas. I've been pretty happy with it and it has native support for Blu-Ray. Only $80 or something like that, so not too bad for some decently powerful video editing tools. It took me a little getting used to the layout, but once I did, it all makes good sense
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Vegas is good.

i have an older version, maybe from 2006. cost maybe $80.

it works good and does "just audio" editing too.

http://www.gamedev.net/
had a review of a professional Vegas version costing Mucho de $. i guess
one of the versions of Vegas is comparable to Adobe Premiere.
 
use firefox instead of IE, this way less crap will enter your computer.

I wouldn't disable flash though, even if it's a working computer you might need to view streamed videos on internet sites.
 
as far as the office suite, I am a student and use Excel, Word, and PowerPoint so that's about the limits outside of previous AutoCAD use. MS vs. Open? Open office wins hands down. http://www.openoffice.org it's better than Office Pro 2007 and it saves and opens .doc files. Not sure about .docx but that doesn't matter does it? I am not sure about the code integration like VB and Access so.... you'll have to look into that.

Brochures would be Adobe Illustrator I believe. Or Photoshop + Illustrator. Not MS Publisher!!!

For DVDs, Nero's Vision is just awesome and has plenty of power. It's well under $100 too. I think I paid $60 (burning, video editing, backup, audio editor, and lightscribe disc graphics).
 
# INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS.

* Use. You may install and use any number of copies of the software on your devices in your household for use by people who reside there or for use in your home-based small business.
 
Thanks guys.

Any input on Quickbooks 2010 on windows 7 64 bit?

Also, my computer came with no extras, and I have been gettin this error when using one of my programs, anyone know what it could be?

Error:
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Assertion Failed!

Program: ...Exercise Manager for Windows /ckdiary_us.exe
File: .\userdb.cpp
Line: 980

Expression age > 0

For information on how your program can cause an assertion failure, see the visual C++ documentiation on asserts


Do I need adobe flash or something?

Thanks in advance
 
An assertion failure means the program did something that the programmer asserts (swears up and down) that it shouldn't or can't do.

In other words, it's a bug in the program; probably nothing you can do about it. 🙁

Unless...is there a dialog somewhere to enter your age or birth date? Can you fill it in with something that makes you look older than 0 years old?
 
My math teacher always asserted that future iPods would explode if we made them to divide by zero. Or "things will break, people will die". Something like that...
 
You must have flash for Quickbooks 2010. I think they started to require flash since QB2009.

I have no issue running QB 2006-2010 under Win7 64bit. The only issue I have with QB2006 is that I can't use the update feature, it always fails on my Win7 machine.

QB2010 is the first "official" version that support Win7.
 
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