Over my dead body. It came with WinXP with all of the updates. The
fellow who was conducting the multi-family sale was a computer freak, and he
won't use anything beyond WinXP. He also recognised the value of keeping a
Win95 machine so that old DOS utilities could be run at the processor level
instead of going through an emulator. The refresh of multi-layer PCB layouts
is instantaneous.
>
>Win 10? ;-)
>
>On 13 March 2016 at 14:12, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Spent a nice day cycling around with a friend, first going out for
>> breakfast and then cruising around for yard sales. Came away from one with
>> a very lightly used Compaq V2000 Presario laptop with the charger and a
>> wireless HP mouse for just $15. The mouse is worth more than that. At
>> another yard sale I found a padded carrying case for just $2, so I came
>> home with a virtually new laptop for less than $20.
>>
>> Got home and set up a new user account, then deleted all of the old
>> ones. This morning I spent an hour installing the internet basics such as
>> antivirus, malware, Firefox, proxy host, and then adjusting the settings to
>> suit me, which mostly entails shutting off ALL of the automatic updates.
>> Doesn't look like this was used much. When I opened WORD it went to the
>> initial setup procedure.
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>> - Hunter S. Thompson
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