Re: off topic: need someone to recover Windows for a friend

On 8 November 2010 21:01, Erin Drummond <[email protected]> wrote:

> Give her linux, its bundled with pretty much all the drivers you need :)
>
> In my experience, recovery disks are useless because the manufacturers
> bundle a whole lot of crapware with them which you have to spend ages
> uninstalling (unless you want the computer to run as slow as molasses)
>
> What I would do is google the model number and download the drivers
> from the manufacturers website
>
> (also, I dont know anyone who wastes their time with windows anymore -
> sorry)
>
> Erin
>
> Yeah well I tried to convince her Linux would do everything but she was on
dial up!!    I think, if not for that she would be using Linux right now.

Interesting what you say about the  "bundles" as , even as a novice, I would
have thought that installing the drivers shouldn't be too difficult - ie
from device manager

Annoyed that I didn't get it going though

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