Re: New group has now started to create a fully stable and secure windows

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From: Kevin Lawton (socks.kepla.shoes_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 11/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:43:10 +0000 (UTC)

Wislu Plethora <wislu@plethora.com> wrote:
| "jaks" <jaks1971@yahoo.com> wrote in message
| news:obGdnRZFb6xE_w7cRVn-qw@rogers.com...
|| Hi All,
||
|| New group has now started to create a fully stable and secure windows
|| machine. XP vs. 2000
||
|| This is the first 'dilemma' in a whole series covering the choices
|| to be made in putting together an inexpensive but reliable PC.
|| The basic idea is to discuss each of the various options along the
|| way, decisions being made by concensus or at least majority vote of
|| the participants.
||
|| The aim of the project will be to install Microsoft Windows onto a PC
|| 'properly' so that it runs reliably and efficiently, eliminating the
|| commonplace woes of re-boots, re-installs, slow running and lost
|| data. As part of the project a PC (actually, more than one) will be
|| constructed (from a large 'parts bin') and photos will be posted of
|| each important detail.
||
|| Vital to this project will be the contributors - you - either using
|| your previous knowledge and experience to make recomendations or to
|| ask questions. Even if you know absolutely nothing about PCs right
|| now, I'm sure you'll have questions to ask and these will be as
|| welcome as the answers.
||
|| Choices of hardware and installation of the software will follow
|| later, but the first step is going to e to choose which version of
|| Microsoft Windows we use.
||
|| If you are interested in getting involved or checking this project
|| out please visit http://www.askhow.net/ftopic1450.html
||
|| --
|| Meet new friends and have some fun.
|| Free computer help and a whole lot
|| more... We are a non-profit community.
|| Come check us out. http://askhow.ne
||
|
| Congratulations. This is the stupidest thing I ever heard of.

Really ? How so ?
Many people seem to have problems running a Windows PC without various
instabilities creeping in. An apparent need for frequent re-boots,
occasional re-installs and a machine which appears to slow down with age
seem to plague many Windows users - to the extent where some regard these
problems as a 'fact of life' which they have to tolerate.
Surely an attempt to discover how to avoid these problems and then make that
information known can only be a good thing ?
Kevin.

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