John Orford wrote:
I have been given the task to breath life back into my Girlfriend's family's home and office computers. They use Windows 98 and sound very old
Yeah. (Your English is much better than my Indonesian ;)) Basically they run Win98 - and from what I hear they are full of viruses / spyware etc.
Before you do anything to their computers, you should find out their uses of the computers, for example:
- what are their activities with those computers,
- the programs they usually use,
- computer support (to fix problems) that available around (do they familiar with linux?),
- peripherals that they're using,
- etc.
You might need to consider things like:
- that some offices are using programs that only works on win98 like what I have here at my workplace (finance program),
- future update/upgrade (both hardware and software), who's going to help?,
- training,
- etc.
Brainstorming:
If viruses and spyware are the only concerns, then probably there're better ways to minimise the problems. For example: computers can only install programs that to be used, limitting floppy and cdrom access, Internet if available browsing only (no download), ways to prevent mail problems, etc.
Any comment?
J Irawan K
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