Mayf -- Tell you friend: Get rid of the hard drive. There's no practical
way to reformat. New ones, either IDE or SATA, cost around $75. Then reload
everything including going to Microsoft for the updates.
The Norton Security suite is a good deal. Costs about $50 a year and does
everything in the background if you go with the default settings.
Also get an external USB drive that is setup to automatically backup
everything. Better still subscribe to an internet backup service if you've
got broadband. Costs like $5.00 a month. So for a little over $100 a year
you buy insurance for your software files and maybe even your identity.
Look at it this way. You buy insurance for your car, don't you? Sure if
you lived 50 miles out at the end of some desert road and never drove into
town you wouldn't buy car insurance. But would you really want to drive
around Las Vegas without it?
Computers are the same way. As soon as you hook up to the Internet you've
come to the big city and best become street smart or sooner or later you're
going to be eaten alive.
Ed
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From: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
To: "Mark J Bradakis" <mark@bradakis.com>
Cc: "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Windows Vista 64 Help Needed!
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