[Coco] OT: Computer for a newbie

[mike delyea]

Make his/her user a limited user and don't give them the administrator
password,


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 11:23 PM, camillus Blockx
<camillus.b.58 at gmail.com>wrote:

> "paprt thet hebough"   paper that he bought it
>
> My keyboard acts sometimes funny....LOL
>
>
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:16 PM, camillus Blockx
> <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If it is genuine winxp, put it back on,make him a restore cd and
> > charge him for it. ( cost around $95 Avg at local repairshop) He/she
> > can restore if needed next time. Make a paprt thet hebought the pc for
> > $0 dollar so that makes it his with all the responsibility.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sounds like it needs a parental block for ANY system you put on it LOL
> >>
> >> Bill Pierce
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com>
> >> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> >> Sent: Sat, May 18, 2013 10:52 pm
> >> Subject: [Coco] OT: Computer for a newbie
> >>
> >>
> >> I think I know the answer to this, but thought I would toss it out to
> >> the group, totally off topic, but I am wondering what OS someone would
> recomment
> >> for a total computer newbie.  I have built up an old Gateway PC and gave
> >> it to someone wanting a PC but no cash to get anything.  Well I  had put
> >> XP on it, but after about three day they had it totally hosed, with more
> >> spam/maleware you can shake a stick at.  So I am at a delema, I want to
> >> help the person out, but I am leary about putting anything but windows
> >> on it since they want to "play games" did not get into detail on this,
> >> but really think I am stuck putting XP back on it.  Any thoughts?  I
> >> would love to just throw a simple linux distro on it and call it a day,
> >> but I fear that will just be too complicated in the end, especially with
> >> him wanting do some gaming on it.
> >>
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