Setting up a Samsung N150 Plus

Jo4

My 10 year old nephew is getting a Samsung N150 Plus on Christmas morning and his Mum has given it to me to make sure it is up and running for him for Christmas! :eek: BTW I know nothing about computers but a little bit more than she does!

It came with a 60 day Norton anti virus and I thought best to leave it on it although she has purchased a Norton anti virus for it, wouldn't she be best to use the free 60 days? Also how often should I set it to back up?

Is there anything I need to do to it other than basically make sure it goes online and runs Office etc?

Dan_Gleebitz

Get rid of Norton. It will slow the computer down. It is just a waste of time and money.
Get Avast.
Dan

penrhyn

Nothing wrong with the latest incarnations of NIS, use the free 60 days before bothering about the bought one.
BTW As the netbook has no optical drives the new version of Norton would need downloading over the interweb, info will be in the packaging.

Set the netbook to back up to what exactly?


PS If you do find NIS slowing the machine down remove using the downloadable tool from the Symantec site, and try a free one.

BTW It probably comes with a trial of MS office, OpenOffice being a free downloadable equivalent.

free4440273

Avast is a great /excellent alternative to Norton -- the latter I always remove/

http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/

Dump IE in favor of Firefox/

:cool:

Jo4

penrhyn wrote: »

Nothing wrong with the latest incarnations of NIS, use the free 60 days before bothering about the bought one.
BTW As the netbook has no optical drives the new version of Norton would need downloading over the interweb, info will be in the packaging.

Set the netbook to back up to what exactly?


PS If you do find NIS slowing the machine down remove using the downloadable tool from the Symantec site, and try a free one.

BTW It probably comes with a trial of MS office, OpenOffice being a free downloadable equivalent.

That is the problem I don't know what will need backed up so in the end up I let the notebook decide itself.

She has purchased MS Office so I only have to load it!

penrhyn

You might like to try Google Chrome, its fast and leaves most of the screen free for content.

Francesanne

Dan_Gleebitz wrote: »

Get rid of Norton. It will slow the computer down. It is just a waste of time and money.
Get Avast.
Dan

Hasn't slowed mine down. Very satisfied with it.

Jo4

Is it possible to install the content of a cd on to this netbook without an external cd player?

CoolHotCold

Jo4 wrote: »

Is it possible to install the content of a cd on to this netbook without an external cd player?

Depends what it is.
If its norton you can download a trial version and use the same activation key from the disc (remember to download the same version)
If its Office you can download the version from the microsoft website and use the product key from the disc.

What exactly is it your looking to install from a cd

Jo4

CoolHotCold wrote: »

Depends what it is.
If its norton you can download a trial version and use the same activation key from the disc (remember to download the same version)
If its Office you can download the version from the microsoft website and use the product key from the disc.

What exactly is it your looking to install from a cd

THANKS! I have Office installed and running. I have Norton installed and running. Now I want to leave it that he can use his new ipod and mobile with his netbook.

What I am looking to install from a cd is the cd that came with the mobile, Samsung GT-S5230, he is getting for Christmas.

free4440273

Jo4 wrote: »

Is it possible to install the content of a cd on to this netbook without an external cd player?

if you have another machine and the netbook is networked, then share the cdrom on the other other machine and run the cd install from there/