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Given the old laptop a new lease of life
« on: 12 February 2009, 20:22:36 »
With a lot of help from TB :y

New larger HD, Win XP, Wireless Network.
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Re: Given the old laptop a new lease of life
« Reply #1 on: 12 February 2009, 20:45:57 »
Glad you sorted in the end, bummer about the first disk though
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Re: Given the old laptop a new lease of life
« Reply #2 on: 13 February 2009, 06:50:51 »
Yes, although there were no quibbles from Ebuyer, seems like a good outfit.

Now I'm up and running properly, I've got rid of that troublesome AVG-free, and installed a proper firewall and virus checker.
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Re: Given the old laptop a new lease of life
« Reply #3 on: 13 February 2009, 08:37:01 »
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Yes, although there were no quibbles from Ebuyer, seems like a good outfit.

Now I'm up and running properly, I've got rid of that troublesome AVG-free, and installed a proper firewall and virus checker.

Ha ha, thing is, you are probably one of the only people who would consider the likes of Norton to be a 'proper' anti virus package!  ;D ;D :y
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Re: Given the old laptop a new lease of life
« Reply #4 on: 13 February 2009, 09:12:37 »
I really don't like Norton...

In all fairness, when it works, it works.  When it screws up...  ...oh boy...
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Re: Given the old laptop a new lease of life
« Reply #5 on: 13 February 2009, 13:46:18 »
I've got 2009, not had a problem, it covers 3 users.

Tried most of the others, always had problems, never had a problem with Norton.

Norton 2009 is by far the best product they have produced.
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Re: Given the old laptop a new lease of life
« Reply #6 on: 13 February 2009, 14:36:34 »
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Yes, although there were no quibbles from Ebuyer, seems like a good outfit.

Now I'm up and running properly, I've got rid of that troublesome AVG-free, and installed a proper firewall and virus checker.

Why install another firewall? will only slow the laptop down.
I assume your cordless router has one? Why not use that one+the firewall in XP, I would have thought was good enough.
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Re: Given the old laptop a new lease of life
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Yes, although there were no quibbles from Ebuyer, seems like a good outfit.

Now I'm up and running properly, I've got rid of that troublesome AVG-free, and installed a proper firewall and virus checker.

Why install another firewall? will only slow the laptop down.
I assume your cordless router has one? Why not use that one+the firewall in XP, I would have thought was good enough.

Doesn't seem to have affected the running of the laptop.
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