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

From: Kevin Lawton (socks.kepla.shoes_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 11/18/04


Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:05:00 +0000 (UTC)

Right, Colin, it sounds like the project might need your input then.
   Kevin.

Colin Barnhorst <colinbarharst(nojunk)@msn.com> wrote:
| Such problems could simply indicate insufficient information on how to
| maintain a hard drive and the need to resist downloading unproven
| software.
|
| "Kevin Lawton" <socks.kepla.shoes@btinternet.com> wrote in message
| news:cn10uu$9g3$1@titan.btinternet.com...
|| 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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