Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

[Dale]

Stroller wrote:
> On 15/11/2010, at 11:36pm, Dale wrote:
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>>>> ... I don't have the OS media to reinstall.
>>>>
>> Because it is kids, they don't want to buy the OS.
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> Assuming the laptop has an OEM Windows license sticker on the underside, it is not necessary to buy a new o/s disk.
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> Any standard Microsoft XP OEM CD [1] will install using that license key. Even if the sticker says "Dell" or "Sony" on it - you only have to match up the "home" or "professional" version. I periodically hear claims that this is not the case, but I don't believe them, as I have never encountered it myself over literally dozens of installs.
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> Also: uninstall AVG and replace it with Microsoft Security Essentials. I know, I know - you'd think that if you don't trust Microsoft to write a secure o/s in the first place, why should you trust them to write antivirus, right? But Security Essentials is really good, and will find malware that AVG misses. AVG has been going downhill for 2 or 3 years, but has got really bad in the last year and anyone with any sense (who maintains home Windows PCs regularly) has moved to Security Essentials now.
> http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
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> Stroller.
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> [1] E.G.: http://www.techsouq.com/images/mwxphe.jpg
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I have read the same thing about the media and the code.  I only had it 
to fail once and it was a home key but a pro media.  I wasn't surprised 
when it didn't work.  My ex bought it off ebay and when we contacted the 
seller, he went and found the key so we could use it.  At least he was 
good about it.

I'll check into security essentials tho.  I would like something that 
once installed, it updates itself in the background with no input from 
the user.  The kids don't know much about puters as far as maintaining 
them.  I'm sure  AVG told them several times that it was expired, out of 
date or something and they just closed the box and did nothing about 
it.  Since it is a M$ thing, maybe it will update like the OS does and 
the kids never even know it happened.

Thanks for the link and info.  Oh, it's a desktop, not a laptop.  
Doesn't matter much but anyway.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)