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I'm considering sending a relative my old netbook in about 3 weeks time
It's an EEEPC 701 with 512MB RAM and 4GB SDD
I'd previously send them a Pentium 3 Laptop with Windows XP on it and was all running nicely but they managed to trash it in 2 months and now Windows won't boot and they're not computer literate enough to fix it themselves and don't know anyone that can help them.
So I want the thing to be as idiot proof as possible and as stable as possible.
Suggestion ... ?
It's an EEEPC 701 with 512MB RAM and 4GB SDD
I'd previously send them a Pentium 3 Laptop with Windows XP on it and was all running nicely but they managed to trash it in 2 months and now Windows won't boot and they're not computer literate enough to fix it themselves and don't know anyone that can help them.
So I want the thing to be as idiot proof as possible and as stable as possible.
Suggestion ... ?
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Agreed, my mum kept messing up her laptop so I changed her account to a standard user but kept the admin rights to myself. She can still do everything she needs to on it, but not she can't mess it up.
I installed it but they're morons - half the stuff for configuring new software is too tall to fit on the screen, so you have to guess what's in the box under neath - to install soem things I'm going to have to cnnect it to an external monitor
I'm more worried about viruses, spyware, malware, etc