>
>Chris,
> I have the same thing. I have an old Dell laptop that came with XP. Kids
>used it for years until it became wonky. I bought them a new machine, but
>on a lark I reformatted the old Dell and reinstalled the OS using the disks
>in came with (remember those). Works beautifully: nice clean install with
>none of the commercial crap installed by the OEM. I installed an older
>version of MS Office. It runs like a stripped ape. Only caveat, it never
>goes near the internet. For that I have a Windows 7 that I like just fine.
>10 need not apply.
>
I got this WinXP laptop from a retired couple who gave up on it after a
local computer "expert" installed Win7 on it. It couldn't even run MS software
properly. Took me a while to realise that the only thing to do was get a blank
hard drive and rebuild it. So, I don't have the manufacturer's crap either.
It has worked very well since then, with a few minor hiccups. I have the
original Win7 hard drive as a backup, which I only seem to need when using the
evilBay messaging system and feedback forum.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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