old computers

[Floorist]

The county is offering to haul off old computers for free. Nick, is there any reason to keep old desktops with W95 or 98. Or the old big heavy monitors? I have one that is so old it was only set up for dial-up. I did use a dongle to get on it and remove what I wanted.

 

[DarisMulkin]

I got a old laptop with a broken screen also before Vista on it.
I also have a Dell Vostro[?} that hasn't been plugged in in 1 1/2 years. Nothing wrong with it. Wife didn't trust it so we got a Mac. It has a new hard drive in it. I'd kind of like to plug it back in. How much shit will I go through to get it back up to date.


Daris

 

[Nick]

The county is offering to haul off old computers for free. Nick, is there any reason to keep old desktops with W95 or 98. Or the old big heavy monitors? I have one that is so old it was only set up for dial-up. I did use a dongle to get on it and remove what I wanted.

If you have software on it that will only run on 95, and 98..

 

[Nick]

I got a old laptop with a broken screen also before Vista on it.
I also have a Dell Vostro[?} that hasn't been plugged in in 1 1/2 years. Nothing wrong with it. Wife didn't trust it so we got a Mac. It has a new hard drive in it. I'd kind of like to plug it back in. How much shit will I go through to get it back up to date.


Daris

Question is what OS is on it ? I would have to dig around and find driver updates [etc]. for it .

 

[Ernesto]

Pull the hard drives and smash them into itty bitty pieces.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Question is what OS is on it ? I would have to dig around and find driver updates [etc]. for it .

I'm sure it is windows 7.

Daris

 

[Nick]

I could probably find updates for you .

 

[Floorist]

I have two laptops with W7. They are still getting updates from Microsoft.

 

[Nick]

They were supposed to stop support for 7 awhile back ..

One of MS's good OS..

 

[Nick]

Download and run this Daris , It will tell you what needs to be updated and give you links to the update ..

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...=vbc8qk_3pofy6HdWfINOOQ&bvm=bv.77880786,d.aWw