I've never had trouble, malware-wise, with programs obtained from FileHippo, Softpedia, PCworld, or freewaregenius, among others.
DO watch out for when the program installer subtly offers to install additional software, such as seach-bars and other shovel-ware. Avoid advertisement-paid software. The advertising subsystems are sometimes hard to remove, later. Look for reviews on software blogs for ideas and warnings. There are USB (musical) keyboards that attach to the PC via USB that are pretty inexpensive, and might also have young-person friendly software. Anyone can get pleasure out of banging out tunes (or noise) on a keyboard. You can't go too wrong with Disney software. Don't sweat it too much, the 4 YO will grow out of it, whatever it is, very soon, anyway. ~~James On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > All or any, > > > > The digital microscope having arrived (thanks everybody!) I now turn my > attention to the other grandchild, who is 4. Thinking music software. > There are dozens, perhaps a hundred or more, different music software > programs for kids. Does anybody have one they love? And, what about this > business of downloading demo’s or freeware? How long will it be before I > REALLY regret it. Do any of those little “stickers” at the bottom of the > website really mean anything? I assume many of you are downloading all > sorts of exploratory stuff all the time. Are you Living On the Edge, or is > there some way to do it safely? > > > > Nick >
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