<div>Thanks for all the advice so far.</div>
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<div>This thing used to run Win98SE with Firefox or IE5.5 in 32Mb of RAM</div>
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<div>Problem was that when i got broadband I went on line, installed ie 6.0, zone alarm and avg - then rebooted. It's never been the same since, despite trying to remove both avg and zone alarm.</div>
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<div>As for memory, I've already done the upgrade thing and upgraded to 64 - I made an error assuming that the 32 was in one slot leaving one free, but it's actually built in leaving two slots free, so I could have gone to 80Mb. Unfortunately, I realised too late to add another 'simm' to my order and as the postage from the US was more than the price of the memory ordering a second time was not worth it. (the memory is ridiculously expensive in this country)
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<div>As for DSL and Puppy - I've played with both of these on my main PC (which dual boots W2k and Ubuntu) and much prefer Puppy - but I couldn't get either to run live.</div>
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<div>My choice is likely to be Puppy or Win98SE again, and you advice confirms this I think.</div>
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<div>I'll have to pluck up the courage to format the device and start from scratch (it took a lot of effort to get this laptop from it's pre-installed Win95 up to Win98SE !!)</div>
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<div>I wonder if I could get my A+ students to do it for practice (I'm not sure msft would like me doing it during an MCSE course !!!!)<br> </div>
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<div>Thanks again</div>
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<div>Tim.C</div>
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<div>Hi guys, time to de-lurk to ask a question ;-)</div>
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<div>I've got an old laptop that I want to re-install the OS for - but not sure which to try. I've tried a couple of Live versions of linux, but had little success. I thought i'd take advice / recomendations before wiping the current system.
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<div>It's an IBM 760 ED, Pentium 133? with 64Mb of Ram<br clear="all"></div>
<div>It's currently running win98SE - which was fine until I made the mistake of upgrading to IE6, then it slowed to a crawl.</div>
<div>As I'm going to have to wipe and reinstall to remove IE6 and other stuff I stupidly put on there, I might as well try and get a better OS if there is one.</div>
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<div>Suggestions ??</div>
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<div>Thank in advance</div>
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<div>Tim.C</div>
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<div>ps I don't mind if the suggestion is "stick with Win98 as it'll be the easiest" - I'm asking you guys because linux people tend to also know msft, where msft people don't ususally know linux !!!!
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<div>pps Be gentle with me - linux is still only an hobby for me. My day job is MCT, but I need some balance in my life ;-)</div><span class="sg">
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