:-) Thanks. Gotta find something for Win2k though... :-(

Post #331,695 by Another Scott 8/23/10 10:38:28 AM Reply	:-) Thanks. Gotta find something for Win2k though... :-( Yeah, 2k is 11+ years old, I know... Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #331,697 by Andrew Grygus 8/23/10 10:54:14 AM Reply	Re: :-) Thanks. Gotta find something for Win2k though... AVG runs on fully patched and updated W2K. Must be SP4 + patches. I have a number of clients running AVG free (not as many as I have running paid, which is pretty low cost) and they have not been complaining of nagware.
Post #331,701 by Another Scott 8/23/10 11:11:30 AM Reply	Thanks. I'll try it again.
Post #331,721 by scoenye 8/23/10 6:55:55 PM Reply	Take a look at Avast as well We're moving away from Symantec to Avast at work because Symantec is utterly unmanagable on top of not being very good. Avast came out of the pile as the one that ate the least resources, has a decent central management system and picked up most of the current crud. It is free for personal use. AVG was also a consideration but since v8.0 I've had some serious issues with both free and full flavors. Besides starting to slack on updates, one installation became unbootable following every update (AVG 8.5 Internet Security)
Post #331,723 by Another Scott 8/23/10 7:47:12 PM Reply	Thanks for the info. I appreciate it.
Post #331,720 by pwhysall 8/23/10 6:53:54 PM Reply	Time to wave farewell to W2K, I think.
Post #331,724 by Another Scott 8/23/10 7:57:08 PM Reply	If it ain't broke... We've got a lot of old machines at work - some that are still running Win98. (I think we've even got some original IBM PCs still active.) Those ancient boxes aren't on the network, but we have many networked Win2k machines are running and controlling other equipment and "upgrading" them to something later doesn't make sense unless there's no other choice. We've got site licenses for SAV and McAfee so those are the default choices. We can run other stuff, but purchases would have to be justified, etc., etc. Cheers, Scott.
Post #331,725 by static 8/23/10 8:07:38 PM Reply	Where would you suggest next? I, too, have a PC still on W2k. I might have trouble legally shifting it to XP. Vista I dislike (have to use it at work) and Windows 7 I also dislike (editing the songwords on the church PC), overlooking the fact the PC might be able to run them. Not sure why I still have it running, to be honest. I've been Ubuntu on my other PCs for ages. Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #331,737 by pwhysall 8/24/10 1:25:26 AM Reply	Based on recent experience, I'd say Linux Mint. Others will be able to advise on more lightweight distributions.
Post #331,739 by folkert 8/24/10 5:25:32 AM Reply	From what I've seen at Helios... Linux Mint is the distro to go to for lightweight setup. They use it for OLD machines being given to people.
Post #331,729 by Andrew Grygus 8/23/10 8:45:33 PM Reply	Here it's the only Windows machine always running. I use it for customer support, general testing, and it does the initial acquisition, processing and storage for my scanner and digital cameras. I also use it when I actually need flash or other video and multimedia. It works fine - why change it? Of course all the real work, data storage and nearly all the Internet access is done on the (gasp! choke!) OS/2 machines. I have a Windows XP machine I turn on when I really need it (last real need was to run VMware's enterprise admin software which only runs on XP and later), or to prove a point to a software support guy who's being a jerk. Of course I have a couple of Linux machines too, used for development and support. All our computers here were built from cast-offs from clients' Windows upgrades, and they all serve very well indeed.

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