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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / January 2007Web to PC
-=> Quoting Hopehowie@webtv.net to All <=- > Hi, How do I keep up with this group switching > from my Webtv to a PC ? Howie Depends (not the type you wear). Will you be using microshaft's Internet Explorer or Outlook express? Will you be using Mozilla or Opera or Foxit Reader? ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 Got old puter..Windows ME 2000,,dont know a thing about it..learning Email now and how to look up info..send pictures etc..This old dog is hard to learn new tricks ( Was a mechanic 25 years on Volkswagens and if I could see it and feel it and see how it is working or not working I could fix it)..Speaking of Depends..I was lucky, after the cath "PULLED OUCH" I only wore maybe 3 diapers..good ever since..sometimes aim not good due to the LITTLE WEENER (Both side Hard-on nerves cut....so sometimes I piss on my PJ,s... Howie > Got old puter..Windows ME 2000,,dont know a thing about it..learning > Email now and how to look up info..send pictures etc..This old dog is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > good due to the LITTLE WEENER (Both side Hard-on nerves cut....so > sometimes I piss on my PJ,s... Howie Howie, if your old computer's operating system is Windows ME, you are in for headaches. It's up there with "Bob" as one of Microsoft's more glaring mistakes. If you really want to use that machine, it would be better to get a friend to help you wipe the disk clean and install Windows 98, Service Pack 2. If you can spare the cash, buying a brand-new machine with Windows XP is a much better choice. You can get a very good desktop system for $400 or even less if you shop carefully and use the monitor from the Windows ME machine. Alex > Howie, if your old computer's operating system is Windows ME, you are in > for headaches. It's up there with "Bob" as one of Microsoft's more glaring [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > for $400 or even less if you shop carefully and use the monitor from the > Windows ME machine. Howie, I'll concur with everything Alex says. I once was a mechanic, not the professional type like yourself, but in gas stations, bus lots and junk yards. And, I once was a manager of my company's information technology including planning the network, installing it and purchasing all its workstations and peripherals. I never met an engine I didn't like, especially a Volkswagen's engine that can be pulled out of the rear with a hydraulic jack. But computers are not intuitive and ME was the worst... well, maybe the first WIN 95 was the worst. >> Howie, if your old computer's operating system is Windows ME, you are >> in for headaches. It's up there with "Bob" as one of Microsoft's more [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > intuitive and ME was the worst... well, maybe the first WIN 95 was the > worst. Speaking as a veteran WinME user for 3.5 years, I can tell you it is gathering dust behind me. I fire it up now and then just to remember what blue screens looked like!! (VBG) Cost me a lot of money back then. I tried to upgrade to XP on that machine, but found out thru some major diagnostics that the big company that built it in 2001 put in a crappy motherboard from 1997.....which would not support XP. Now I know why their tech kept *quietly* telling me NOT to upgrade....he knew. Anyway.....I kept my costs under $900 Cdn for this machine by doing as Alec suggests. I used the monitor, peripherals and speakers from the old one. I do have it hooked up sometimes via a router, but rarely use it. I have absolutely NO idea how WebTV works cuz we don't offer advice on those on the Microsoft news groups. But if you can find us, we still have about 5 news groups for WinME running and we are there to answer any questions you might ask. That might be all you need to fix up your computer. Mike Maltby is the acknowledged *guru* of anything to do with WinME. If you need help finding us......let me know. There are still a few of those WinME computers out there. Cheers.....Heather. (who should have bought 98 instead......timing, dammit) >>> Howie, if your old computer's operating system is Windows ME, >>> you are in for headaches. >> Howie, I'll concur with everything Alex says. > Speaking as a veteran WinME user for 3.5 years, I can tell you it is > gathering dust behind me. I fire it up now and then just to remember > what blue screens looked like!! (VBG) Cost me a lot of money back > then. I run 98 on a $250 machine; ME on another (free) machine. The 98 computer holds all my non-internet applications - WP, DB, off- line readers, etc - and 4 HDs for file storage. The ME computer is used ONLY for www and e-mail. If it should ever be attacked by a virus/trojan, I won't lose 17 years of work. >> Speaking as a veteran WinME user for 3.5 years, I can tell you it is >> gathering dust behind me. I fire it up now and then just to remember [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > The ME computer is used ONLY for www and e-mail. If it should > ever be attacked by a virus/trojan, I won't lose 17 years of work. It won't if you have a firewall and an antivirus and stay off the porn sites (just kidding you on that last one). Get the free Zone Alarm and either AVG, Avast! or EZ Trust. Your stuff will be totally safe. I ran with just those (and spyware proggies) totally for all that time. Safe hex works!! Auntie Virus > > Got old puter..Windows ME 2000,,dont know a thing about it..learning > > Email now and how to look up info..send pictures etc..This old dog is [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Alex >> The ME computer is used ONLY for www and e-mail. If it should >> ever be attacked by a virus/trojan, I won't lose 17 years of work. > It won't if you have a firewall and an antivirus and stay off the porn > sites (just kidding you on that last one). Get the free Zone Alarm > and either AVG, Avast! or EZ Trust. Your stuff will be totally safe. > I ran with just those (and spyware proggies) totally for all that > time. Safe hex works!! I have AVG and Zone Alarm plus a firewall in the router. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 |
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