LAPTOP HELP thick question but I'm no techy

cdbrown

I would always suggest 98se over ME (I think I might have earlier), but as it already came with ME installed I hoped it would also come with the installation disks. Perhaps someone on this board has an old proper version of win 98se they no longer need.
Best of all I think most people could do that whole restore without too much troubles. The installation of extra ram may be a bit daunting for some people though. Here is a nifty tutorial http://www.computermemoryupgrade.net/installing-laptop-memory.html

Any further tips Mizz-Pink? I'm thinking go for Firefox with adblock add-in to prevent the cache filling up with rubbish

Donnie

Once the daughter arrives at the weekend, I'm sure that she'll get some good support here.

I'll be on holiday.

Some good things about Windows ME;

It has Universal Plug and Play, unlike 98SE.

System Restore, though I've not used this.

Windows Movie Maker

I tried to install Windows 98SE, though found that I couldn't apply the updates.

Window ME updated easily.

Went from Internet Explorer 5.5, Windows Media Player 7 to Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1, Windows Media Player 9

Also installed the latest version of the Opera browser; http://www.opera.com/ as well as Firefox.
Prefer Opera for everyday use.

Mizz_Pink

cdbrown wrote:

I would always suggest 98se over ME (I think I might have earlier), but as it already came with ME installed I hoped it would also come with the installation disks. Perhaps someone on this board has an old proper version of win 98se they no longer need.
Best of all I think most people could do that whole restore without too much troubles. The installation of extra ram may be a bit daunting for some people though. Here is a nifty tutorial http://www.computermemoryupgrade.net/installing-laptop-memory.html

Any further tips Mizz-Pink? I'm thinking go for Firefox with adblock add-in to prevent the cache filling up with rubbish

Firefox have just released version 2 of their browser. Microsoft have just released Internet Explorer 7 but its a bit buggy and in the early stages. (Hubby told me to write that, i'm not the expert really !)

TaBunny

cdbrown wrote:

A few little thoughts-
If you have the win me disc handy and your daughter is able to borrow someone pen drive
- she could copy across all her data to the pen drive
- format the hard drive completely
- reinstall win me
- reinstall security software
- run security software update
- run win me update
- don't install AOL
- defragment the drive
- get spybot and adaware for cleaning up the rubbish each week or so.
This should give the laptop a new lease of life. Still left with the problem of getting some version of office.

Thanks for the above we are going to try all of this, we don't have the original ME disc but have kindly been donated one so hopefully that will work. We have dumped the AOL now and is working fine through explorer, the internet isn't particularly slow it never was but it's when she's trying to write essays etc and use her Math programmes that it seems to stall. Will try the Malware tips as well, many thanks.