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5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great product, 2008-03-12
Windows Live OneCare 2.0 has really helped solve a lot of Windows Vista problems. While I still think Vista is a horrbile program, One Care has helped me be able to tolerate it better. It's helped me protect my laptop against viruses, worms, etc. Which has caused all of my Softwares not work on Vista. It's program helps protect against Viruses, worms, hackers, spyware, Online theft, etc. But there is a downside to it : In addition to purchasing the software, the program is a $50 USD subscription, which costs more money and the packaging and Amazon Vine fail to mention. Basically, you have to spend more money for something your computer should already do in the first place.
PROS
1. Easy to install
2. Works great in protecting your PC
CONS
1. The yearly cost isn't mentioned on the packaging.
2. Cancelling the subscription can't be done online. You have to dial an 866 number (866-663-2273) to cancel.
Other than that, I totally reccommend One Care for those who need PC protection against Viruses, worms, hackers, etc.
 What A Joke Of A Product! Don't Waste Your Money On This!, 2008-03-12
I was excited about providing my wife some security for her PC with the Windows Live OneCare 2.0. But imagine my shock when I went to activate this program and was instructed to provide a credit card number for the annual fee. HUH?!?! What's this all about? I just got this and I'm already having to pay MORE money to make it work? No thanks Windows! I'm keeping my money and chunking your piece of garbage software in the garbage can. You should be more honest and forthright about what you are requiring people to do when they purchase your products. This is highway robbery!
3 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
Couldn't Wait to Uninstall It! Made the Computers Slow Down to a Snail's Pace!, 2008-03-12
I received this program through the Amazon Vine program. It came with a license to use it on three computers. My husband and I were both impressed with what the program said it could do. It sounded too good to be true. We installed it on two desktop PCs and one laptop.
All the computers were slowed down to a snail's pace. Starting up the computer took at least three minutes (and seemed like a lifetime). Opening each program took so long, minutes to open an application! Opening my (popular) email application and waiting for the download to happen took forever. The process by which it scans each email for viruses apparently takes a lot of time. To cope I'd end up opening the program, walking away and returning later to read the email.
Even using the computer doing simple tasks like changing to view the email program to use a word processing program was very difficult. I'd click on the other application and it would pause and nothing would move, then a minute or two later the screen would finally react. Flipping from one Internet browser to another would have long pauses and it `wouldn't go'. Before installing this program I could flip to different Internet browser windows with immediate results. Trying to open new programs such as a spreadsheet program took forever and the cursor didn't seem to react, so I'd click on the icon again. In the end sometimes I'd end up with three of the programs open and ready to run.
I had the worst experience with using a (popular) photo altering program. That program kept locking up.
The long time that it took to access different programs and to switch from viewing the Internet to the word processor made the most basic computer work painstaking and time consuming. It was ridiculous. I have not experienced a computer being this way since the early 1990s when I was accessing the Internet through dial-up! To cope with the computer being this way, I took to reading something on paper while I waited for the system to catch up so I could do whatever it was that I was trying to do.
Also when starting up the system each day I'd get an urgent message that there was a problem! Guess what `the problem' was? I had new documents that needed backing up. Give me a break--that is no urgent or emergency situation.
We were so happy to uninstall this from all of our computers. Now are computers are back to normal.
We did spend quite a lot of time installing this program and then uninstalling it. What a waste of time this was. I can't believe how poor this program is, I'm really surprised.
If I had paid money for this I'd be irate about it! I got it free from the Amazon Vine program so all that was wasted was our time.
Wouldn't be my first choice, 2008-03-12
Pros:
Seamless, all inclusive computer care program
Automatic updates
Easy install
Easy to use
Cons:
Must call Microsoft if you want to uninstall
Cost $49.95/yr for maintanence
Must have a Windows Live account to use
Too many pop ups interfering with regular computer use all the time.
2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Works great, 2008-03-11
This is a great product. I was very excited about this product. We have an older computer and I thought that the repair/fix part of this product would be great for us. I also liked that when it was installed it recognized that we had a printer on the main computer and it asked if we wanted to network our laptop. We had always wanted to do that but didn't know how, this program made it very easy. The only downfall is that there are a lot of pop-ups asking us to run things and restart every few days. I guess that means it is doing it's job, but it can be annoying. Overall a good product.
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