Re: XP Home 2600 Packard Bell Imedia
- From: "peter" <peterk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:33:12 GMT
I see no reason to update IF you never ever go online with this machine.
You could download SP2 on this machine that you are using for email and burn
the file to a CD/DVD and install onto the other from there.
This would be a safe way to go ..in case one day you do decide to go
online.This would prevent that XP specific malware from attacking as soon as
you are online.
On another note I noticed 128 of Ram...its cheap to double that and increase
the speed by about 50% especially with the build in video using some of that
RAM.
peter
--
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."
"Pebble" <Pebble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%230MSV3glGHA.4144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi to all,
Have scored this WinXP computer from a friend, as "it doesn't work very
well, I'm getting a new one" Luckily she had never made the mastor restore
discs or boot floppy, so did all that and decided to see what could be done
with it. Lots of viruses, spycrap and completely useless programmes which I
seemed to get rid of. (It's not now online - and never will be) So had to
download all the tools on the trusty Win98SE and CD copy to XP.
Decided to restore to factory settings using recovery option 1 from the
recovery boot disk, I did originally hope to avoid the factory settings
option, but after cleaning, scanning, scouring, uninstalling and deleting,
decided to go for the "as new" option. Have never done that before, seemed
to go quite smoothly. Belarc advisor tells me I have about 50 updates to
download. As this computer will never be online, do I really need ALL the
updates and fixes? I only want this machine for the bigger oomph than the
98SE and that NTFS file system to do video work on, or are some of the
updates needed for other fixes. Am going to chuck in a firewire card, more
memory and a DVD burner.
--
B-)
Pebble in Boulder
SYSTEM SPECS
Imedia C2123ADRWS
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Build 2600 xpclient.010817-1148
System Manufacturer Packard Bell NEC
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 11 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel ~1202 Mhz
Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1200MHz
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T, 17/10/2001
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148)
Mainboard : ECS (P6IWF)
Chipset : Intel i810E
Processor : Intel Celeron @ 1200 MHz
Physical Memory : 128 MB
Video Card : Intel Corporation 82810E 810e Graphics Controller
Hard Disk : Maxtor (41 GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : COMBI RW16x10/DVD
DirectX : Version 8.1
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