What freeware would you use in this situation?

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On that special day, filthy-mcnasty, ([email protected]) said...
If I were you, I'd scale your plans down to the likes of Windows ME,
which nobody seems to like much. Or, better I reckon, Windows 98.
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Better not. If the 2.2 GHz are provided by an intel CPU, the Win98-
above-2GHz-bug will kick in, and the system won't even start, as the
networking components aren't adapted to that speed. You'll first have
to get the fix from here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312108


Gabriele Neukam

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I am building my nephew a computer. All new except the HDD, which is only
going to be 6 GB. I am using that because I had it laying around and am
trying to go cheap althought the processor is 2.7 Mhz and 512MB Ram so it
will be enought for any type software I might want to add. A question to the
group. If you had only 6 GB on your HD, what software would you install.
Interested in as much as possible with of course leaving plenty of buffer
space. So far I have decided to load:

Windows XP Home (I have an unregistered copy from another desktop I bought
from Emachines) for the OS.
Zone Alarm for the firewall
One of the freeware anti-virus programs (Recomendations please?)
Ad-Aware and Spyware Killer
I am thinking of using an unopened unregistered MS Works from 2002, (What
would you recomend for freeware MS Office compatible apps?)
Belarc Advisor (Just because)
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I'd definitely use SpywareBlaster from http://www.javacoolsoftware.com and
Spybot Search and Destroy from http://www.safer-networking.de .

Would put on a few SysInternals tools, autoruns, filemon, regmon, tcpview
and the PsTools suite to help troubleshoot it later on.

If you'll be wanting remote access, you should consider one of the VNC
variants around. Personally I stick with RealVNC from http://www.realvnc.com

The suggestion of using a USB key for documents etc. is a good idea. You're
saying you'd aiming to do it on the cheap - keep in mind that a Seagate
Barracuda 80GB hard disk with 8MB cache is only GBP45, hard disks are
pretty cheap these days! With that kinda capacity you completely do away
with storage worries and can use XP fine, enjoy the increased performance
with a faster disk etc. Then you can put on the likes of OpenOffice.org for
an office suite ( http://www.openoffice.org/ ~200MB), Firefox/Thunderbird,
WinAmp etc. without worries.

HTH
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The utility has been abandoned by the developer, but here's a link to
downoad it:

http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html
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Pricelessware 2005 description of Aida32:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005SYSTEMUTILITIES.php#0038-PW

a download page is still hosted by the author (several versions and documentation are available for
download):

http://www.hardwareoc.hu/index.php/p/download/st/.-download--teszt-PC-AIDA.html

Susan
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I am building my nephew a computer. All new except the HDD, which
is only going to be 6 GB. I am using that because I had it laying
around and am trying to go cheap althought the processor is 2.7
Mhz and 512MB Ram so it will be enought for any type software I
might want to add. A question to the group. If you had only 6 GB
on your HD, what software would you install. Interested in as much
as possible with of course leaving plenty of buffer space. So far
I have decided to load:

Windows XP Home (I have an unregistered copy from another desktop
I bought from Emachines) for the OS.
Zone Alarm for the firewall
One of the freeware anti-virus programs (Recomendations please?)
Ad-Aware and Spyware Killer
I am thinking of using an unopened unregistered MS Works from
2002, (What would you recomend for freeware MS Office compatible
apps?) Belarc Advisor (Just because)

What else would you install (Freeware) if this were your computer?

Thanks
J
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I know I'm late-
win2000pro/AVG/Sygate/Spybot/MSAS/A^2/AdAware/ScriptSentry/Script
Defender/SwatIt/
BitDefender/AntiVir/Sysclean as backup av
OpenOffice/VLCMediaPlayer/IrfanView/Firefox and Thunderbird
-max
 
I can't say that I would recommend Winamp (at least the modern
versions) for running from a USB drive. They write/rewrite a large
amount of stuff in your registry. Probably wouldn't make you very
popular with the next lucky individual to use that computer.

Chris
 
Don't mean to discourage you, but I just ran a "Dir/s" on my Windows
XP Pro Folder:

Total for: C:\WINDOWS\*
5,696,331,504 bytes in 20,779 files and 3,725 dirs 5,737,340,928
bytes allocated
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Total for: C:\Program Files\*
992,717,592 bytes in 6,964 files and 2,246 dirs 1,010,147,328
bytes allocated

Granted the odd app will go right ahead and dump stuff into the
"Common Files" subfolder, or some similar subfolder
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My Windows XP share is only 1.9 gigs / 11349 files using your method. I
am a lean installer :).


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If you really are going to use a HDD so small, then I'd recommend you
NOT to use Windows XP, in fact, if this is a working computer (I mean
that your son will use ONLY for college activities and not for playing
or something like that) you should use Linux, I would recommend
Ubuntu, because you can have EVERYTHING you need with just 4G of
space. In fact, it comes with OpenOffice 1.4 wich is a COMPLETE office
suite (completely compatible with MS-Office docs and everything) and
some other tools for your son's working needs. And everything he could
need to add for tools, he will find it on the Internet for free
(legally talking of course) and he won't need more space than thos 6G
you offer. So if you want to get well informed go
http://www.ubuntu.com, there you can find the link to download the OS
and the info on how to use it and the best of all is that it won't
cost you a penny!
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Actually, this is a very good idea. You can even uninstall the extra's
you do not need to trim it down some.


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No, you don't have to download it. You can request as many CDs you
want and get them free.
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That was heldmar's quote...not mine. I already ordered the CD's. Proud
Ubuntu user.

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That was heldmar's quote...not mine. I already ordered the CD's. Proud
Ubuntu user.
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Hi El Gee

I never intended that way. It is only for the information of the other
Usenet cronies that I posted that message.
So if you want to get well informed go
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You will see that there was a double >> against the relevant quoted
text.
 
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