Leave of absence

[owl]

Our computer is broken. I was deleting some adware and I had to restart it into Safe mode, and after I restarted it back into noral mode Norton Antivirus wouldn't turn on Autoprotect and the internet wouldn't work. It dials up okay but it won't open any pages and after receiving a few bytes of data it won't send or receive anything more.

Does anyone have advice on new computers? What's the best make? Is XP a more crappy or less crappy OS than Millenium Edition? Is it worth £110 to upgrade with Office Basic Edition (Word, Outlook and Excel), or could you cope with Works 7.0 (ie does it have good spreadsheet and word processing programs)?

I won't be around much on LiveJournal or any sites, so if you don't see me that's why.

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[owl]

Oh, I loathed it with a great loathing. The System Restore and Norton Antivirus kept interfering with each other. Our copy of Word broke about 3 years ago, and quite often the mouse freezes so you have to move around websites using the tab key.