Thread: Where can I get a new operating system for my computer for free ?

Agree with Namtrak. Go buy the Dell. Farting around with old junk is waste of money. Always assuming you have the reddies to afford a new one that is.

Have just done this cleanup thing on my PC.

Spybot can be had from safer-networking.org
Ad-aware can be had from download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html
AVG Anti virus from free.grisoft.com

Tip: don't do the defrag thing during unstable weather when the power may be interrupted...DAMHIKT.


Cheers................Sean

Hi Jake

If it is any consolation, the desktop machine in my study at home - that I use a lot for Internet, etc - is but a Pentium III 450 Mh. It has a 16 gb hard drive (...OK, STOP those giggles now!!:eek: ) and came with a whopping 64 Mb of RAM (NOW you REALLY better settle down!). It runs 98 SE!

Well, the truth is that it was quite slow, especially in comparison to my goody-specced Laptop, which is about 2 years old (and now due for replacement).

I did two things to the desktop - added more RAM (took it up to 200 Mb, anything more is really a waste on this machine), and I re-formatted the harddrive to make absolutely sure that there were no virus', etc to slow things down.

Now I will not pretend that it is a quick machine - I avoid manipulating graphic programmes such as Photoshop on it - but for everything else it actually runs pretty well. The extra RAM certainly made a difference to the speed. It rarely hangs, in fact I cannot recall it doing so (while my SP powered laptop does so a few times each week).

Regards from Perth

Derek

Originally Posted by scooter

Have just done this cleanup thing on my PC.

Spybot can be had from safer-networking.org
Ad-aware can be had from download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html
AVG Anti virus from free.grisoft.com

Tip: don't do the defrag thing during unstable weather when the power may be interrupted...DAMHIKT.


Cheers................Sean

If you are serious about cleaning out the crud, you need this too.

http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/

I use it every coupla weeks

Al

Originally Posted by Shedhand

....assuming you have the reddies to afford a new one that is.

no not really. Poor bugger me (sniff)......ahhhh, I see now !.....thats why I should have stayed in school ....Sorry Mum, I should've listen to you.... .....JAKE !...WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HAD A BATH !....yesterday mum.....WELL, HAVE ANOTHER ONE !...DON'T FORGET THE DEODERENT ! AND GET TO SCHOOL....ooookayy mum. ...Bloody higene cop, my mum was...still is. Take off your shoes, and walk into her house and she appears out of nowhere, mop in hand, following you, wiping off your footprints as you walk down the hallway....Love err, but what a nutcase....but she was right about staying in school, so I'd have the reddies, so I wouldn't have to stuff about and just buy a new computer, so I could work the computer instead of it working me....

Jesssus, why am I writing this crap.

Originally Posted by apricotripper

so I'd have the reddies,

Mateeeeeee, Ive bucket loads of em, just say the word and Ill shoot ya a reddie.

Al

Originally Posted by ozwinner

Mateeeeeee, Ive bucket loads of em, just say the word and Ill shoot ya a reddie.

Al

'the word'..... you want my address ?....ohhhhh, you mean that other kind of reddie ?.... .... too good to be true

Originally Posted by apricotripper

'the word'..... you want my address ?....ohhhhh, you mean that other kind of reddie ?.... .... too good to be true

Launched.....................................hit..


Al

Originally Posted by ozwinner

If you are serious about cleaning out the crud, you need this too.

http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/

I use it every coupla weeks

Al

That's funny, Darrell Lea licquorice (sp?) does it for me


Cheers Al .............Sean

Originally Posted by apricotripper

Jesssus, why am I writing this crap.

I wondered that myself

so has anything improved... ie................... in speed or drop outs

Originally Posted by Robert34

...Power spikes should not be a prob for me as I have a Battery Back Up Unit ....

Yeah, I mean the ones inside the computer, not outside.

Best analogy I can give is like water hammers in your plumbing inside your house come from the taps inside your house, not the mains.

As your computer 'computes' it creates 'water hammers' & echos on the DC power rails running around you internal circuits.
The filter caps are to dull down those 'water hammers' & echos so other parts of your computer down interpret them as data.

Hey Apricot, why not slip some geeky schoolkid 50 bucks or a bucket of
McVomit to set it up for you?

Originally Posted by Gumby

I wondered that myself

oh really ?...... oh come on. Should be happy. I give you something to be sarcasic about, which sounds like something you like doing ... its fun rolling your eyes at people, right?...

...I wonder, if one rolls their eyes enough, can one generate enough momentum to backflip......betya, that how they choose gymnasts in Russia. Nothing to do with body shape, or flexibility....its really all about sarcasim....The most smartass and sneering of kids are chosen...

WELL, CHILD, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP ?

ahhh, I don't know, a bloody sibiarian snow shoveler ...

GOOD ! ... YOU HAVE PROMISE ! WERWASFDWE-IVIC ! MARK HER DOWN. SHE BECOMES OLYMPIC GYMNAST ! NEXT......

:eek: But, I really want to be a vet that be right !

EXCELLENT ! PUT HER AT TOP OF LIST ! WHO'S NEXT ...

(there you go gumby, something to roll your eyes at....fill the whole page with them why don't ya...I mean, 'you'....phew ! that was close, nearly gave you some poor spelling to critizise... (backflip)