Re: Daughter's computer

[Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij () ie ymp gov>]

> In my experince of a driveby, cleaners didn't and I had to reinstall. And
> Microsoft says the same. I rather like the idea of following the Microsoft
> recommendation and reinstall Windows, even though in this case, it means
> I'll be installing Linux (if I can talk her into it).

If she's just using office applications, web browsing, and IM.  It's a 
viable solution.  You might start her out with one of the many live CD 
distributions, which will save you some time, and let her find something 
she likes.  My boss's wife swears by damn small linux, but there are a lot 
of choices out there.  In any case you want to as a minumum if you go 
with windows or linux, get her using Firefox.  Also once you have the 
machine setup, it'd be a good idea to create an image of it, so if it gets 
corrupted again, you have a quick way to go back to a known point.

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