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From: PanHandler on 29 Jul 2005 00:15 "PanHandler" <panhandler(a)whiskey.net> wrote in message news:NZhGe.34155$sJ4.33639(a)bignews5.bellsouth.net... > The utility has been abandoned by the developer, but here's a link to > downoad it: > > http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html The latest version is 3.40, dated 3/28/2003, but I'm not sure which version is at the link above. In any case, it's great.
From: elaich on 29 Jul 2005 01:12 "Jeff" <catfisherman62(a)123yahoo.com> wrote in news:sWcGe.39299$0f.30074(a)tornado.texas.rr.com: > Windows XP Home (I have an unregistered copy from another desktop I > bought from Emachines) for the OS. I would install Windows ME, and then tweak it as described here: www.burzurq.com/forum/trevtweak.html I would then go to www.beta10.com, and download OPPCOMME, which will allow you to get rid of all the extra "window dressing" in ME that makes it sluggish and unreliable. Get rid of System Restore, OOBE, and all the other garbage you want. I ran ME for five years tweaked like this, and it was reliable and lightning fast. It's a far better OS than Win98 - M$ just screwed it up with too much garbage.
From: heldmar on 29 Jul 2005 09:45 If you really are going to use a HDD so small, then I'd recommend you NOT to use Windows XP, in fact, if this is a working computer (I mean that your son will use ONLY for college activities and not for playing or something like that) you should use Linux, I would recommend Ubuntu, because you can have EVERYTHING you need with just 4G of space. In fact, it comes with OpenOffice 1.4 wich is a COMPLETE office suite (completely compatible with MS-Office docs and everything) and some other tools for your son's working needs. And everything he could need to add for tools, he will find it on the Internet for free (legally talking of course) and he won't need more space than thos 6G you offer. So if you want to get well informed go http://www.ubuntu.com, there you can find the link to download the OS and the info on how to use it and the best of all is that it won't cost you a penny!
From: Gabriele Neukam on 29 Jul 2005 11:38 On that special day, filthy-mcnasty, (filthy-mcnasty(a)here.now) said... > If I were you, I'd scale your plans down to the likes of Windows ME, > which nobody seems to like much. Or, better I reckon, Windows 98. Better not. If the 2.2 GHz are provided by an intel CPU, the Win98- above-2GHz-bug will kick in, and the system won't even start, as the networking components aren't adapted to that speed. You'll first have to get the fix from here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312108 Gabriele Neukam Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam(a)t-online.de -- Ah, Information. A property, too valuable these days, to give it away, just so, at no cost.
From: Adam Piggott on 29 Jul 2005 11:55
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeff wrote: > I am building my nephew a computer. All new except the HDD, which is only > going to be 6 GB. I am using that because I had it laying around and am > trying to go cheap althought the processor is 2.7 Mhz and 512MB Ram so it > will be enought for any type software I might want to add. A question to the > group. If you had only 6 GB on your HD, what software would you install. > Interested in as much as possible with of course leaving plenty of buffer > space. So far I have decided to load: > > Windows XP Home (I have an unregistered copy from another desktop I bought > from Emachines) for the OS. > Zone Alarm for the firewall > One of the freeware anti-virus programs (Recomendations please?) > Ad-Aware and Spyware Killer > I am thinking of using an unopened unregistered MS Works from 2002, (What > would you recomend for freeware MS Office compatible apps?) > Belarc Advisor (Just because) I'd definitely use SpywareBlaster from http://www.javacoolsoftware.com and Spybot Search and Destroy from http://www.safer-networking.de . Would put on a few SysInternals tools, autoruns, filemon, regmon, tcpview and the PsTools suite to help troubleshoot it later on. If you'll be wanting remote access, you should consider one of the VNC variants around. Personally I stick with RealVNC from http://www.realvnc.com The suggestion of using a USB key for documents etc. is a good idea. You're saying you'd aiming to do it on the cheap - keep in mind that a Seagate Barracuda 80GB hard disk with 8MB cache is only GBP45, hard disks are pretty cheap these days! With that kinda capacity you completely do away with storage worries and can use XP fine, enjoy the increased performance with a faster disk etc. Then you can put on the likes of OpenOffice.org for an office suite ( http://www.openoffice.org/ ~200MB), Firefox/Thunderbird, WinAmp etc. without worries. HTH - -- Adam Piggott, Proprietor, Proactive Services (Computing). http://www.proactiveservices.co.uk/ Please replace dot invalid with dot uk to email me. Apply personally for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFC6lFd7uRVdtPsXDkRAtifAJ9se9ZebMZ0STQ2f/fquFQrBFuHcACfS4xl DxdwfBxVPtmY2xCenEzgnBE= =PxT2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |