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Feb. 11th, 2005 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlOur 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.
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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Date: 2005-02-11 08:29 pm (UTC)I'd go with XP (preferably XP Pro, if you can spare the extra $100). If you get along fine with Works, and don't need the extra power of the Office products, I'd stay with that. The only problem I see with the Works word processor is that Word won't always open the files, so if you send them to someone (like a beta reader) that has Word, then he or she might not be able to open them.
If you have the extra money, I'd spend it on Office Basic and go with XP Home.