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Ed from AZ
I pruchased two used Dell Latitude 600 laptops (one was for my
daughter). Both should have the same configuration, according to the
dealer. A "restore" CD reinstalled a fresh copy of XP Pro on both
machines (both came with separate COA stickers on the machines). I am
not familiar with setting up XP Pro, though I use it every day on my
work computer. There, I'm only a limited user - at home, I want to be
Admin on my own machine. But there seems to be some things I need to
sort out.
I tried to install BelArc Advisor on my machine, but it wouldn't run.
My daughter, though, installed it and ran it just fine. She showed me
her results, and there was a page-long list of Windows hot fixes and
updates not installed!! So should we both seek out a network
connection, turn on auto-update, and let Windows do its thing?
As far as a network conection goes, we plan on using WiFi. These
laptops are supposed to have WiFi built-in, but I'm not familiar
enough with finding components to verify that it's installed and
working. That was another reason for the BelArc. And I suspect that
I won't know whether it's working right until I try to connect with
it. It would be frustrating, thoguh, to try to connect and fail, and
have to troubleshoot it without a network connection!!
I also tried to use the DVD drive, but it said I was missing some
codecs, so I went to the MS support site and downloaded two sets of
codecs (WM9Codecs and wmp6cdcs) to burn to a CD and take home to
install.
Finally, can someone recommend a decent book that will help me set up
user accounts and permissions? I can see only two choices - Admin and
User. I know at work there are groups with permissions and different
user levels with different permissions. I want a fully-Admin account
to do things to the whole computer, a broad user profile for my normal
use, and a very limited user profile for Internet work.
Thanks for all the help.
Ed
daughter). Both should have the same configuration, according to the
dealer. A "restore" CD reinstalled a fresh copy of XP Pro on both
machines (both came with separate COA stickers on the machines). I am
not familiar with setting up XP Pro, though I use it every day on my
work computer. There, I'm only a limited user - at home, I want to be
Admin on my own machine. But there seems to be some things I need to
sort out.
I tried to install BelArc Advisor on my machine, but it wouldn't run.
My daughter, though, installed it and ran it just fine. She showed me
her results, and there was a page-long list of Windows hot fixes and
updates not installed!! So should we both seek out a network
connection, turn on auto-update, and let Windows do its thing?
As far as a network conection goes, we plan on using WiFi. These
laptops are supposed to have WiFi built-in, but I'm not familiar
enough with finding components to verify that it's installed and
working. That was another reason for the BelArc. And I suspect that
I won't know whether it's working right until I try to connect with
it. It would be frustrating, thoguh, to try to connect and fail, and
have to troubleshoot it without a network connection!!
I also tried to use the DVD drive, but it said I was missing some
codecs, so I went to the MS support site and downloaded two sets of
codecs (WM9Codecs and wmp6cdcs) to burn to a CD and take home to
install.
Finally, can someone recommend a decent book that will help me set up
user accounts and permissions? I can see only two choices - Admin and
User. I know at work there are groups with permissions and different
user levels with different permissions. I want a fully-Admin account
to do things to the whole computer, a broad user profile for my normal
use, and a very limited user profile for Internet work.
Thanks for all the help.
Ed