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Old July 20th 16, 11:38 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Alek
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Default Setup For Neighbor

I setup my neighbor's new ASUS F555L Notebook PC and would like your
comments.

Installed:
Spybot Anti-beacon
Classic Shell
Kingsoft Free Office Suite
Chrome
MBAM
Avira Free A-V

Disabled the lock screen
Checked that her account was local
Set up File History for backup

Have I forgotten anything important?

Thanks.
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Old July 21st 16, 12:02 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Big Al[_5_]
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Default Setup For Neighbor

On 07/20/2016 06:38 PM, Alek wrote:
I setup my neighbor's new ASUS F555L Notebook PC and would like your
comments.

Installed:
Spybot Anti-beacon
Classic Shell
Kingsoft Free Office Suite
Chrome
MBAM
Avira Free A-V

Disabled the lock screen
Checked that her account was local
Set up File History for backup

Have I forgotten anything important?

Thanks.

I like Libreoffice better but that's me. I've used Kingsoft too and it
works okay.
How about backup software to do images to a USB HD?
Macrium reflect isn't that hard once YOU setup the backup. All she
would do is plug in the drive and open the icon and click backup.
www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

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Old July 21st 16, 12:40 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Alek
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Default Setup For Neighbor

Big Al wrote on 7/20/2016 7:02 PM:
On 07/20/2016 06:38 PM, Alek wrote:
I setup my neighbor's new ASUS F555L Notebook PC and would like your
comments.

Installed:
Spybot Anti-beacon
Classic Shell
Kingsoft Free Office Suite
Chrome
MBAM
Avira Free A-V

Disabled the lock screen
Checked that her account was local
Set up File History for backup

Have I forgotten anything important?

Thanks.

I like Libreoffice better but that's me. I've used Kingsoft too and it
works okay.


Too slow!

How about backup software to do images to a USB HD?
Macrium reflect isn't that hard once YOU setup the backup. All she
would do is plug in the drive and open the icon and click backup.
www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx


Good idea. Thanks.
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Old July 21st 16, 12:51 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Setup For Neighbor

Alek wrote:

Installed:
Spybot Anti-beacon


Some other choices:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/deta...10_spying.html
http://pxc-coding.com/portfolio/donotspy10/ (*)
http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

(*) Employs OpenCandy but that exists only during installation. Just
say No to any offers. When the install is done, OpenCandy is gone.
It's just a dynamic means of making a smaller installer with bundleware
rather than bloating the size of the installer to include the
bundleware.

Classic Shell


That means this neighbor will learn the GUI that you choose, like Win7,
rather than learn the Win10 GUI. Yes, this will ease migration to Win10
but then you did not say this neighbor was even using a computer before.
When they call for tech support or post in newsgroups, they will be told
how to perform a fix using a GUI with which they are unfamiliar. They
will remain clumsy with the native GUI.

Kingsoft Free Office Suite


That became adware a couple years ago. It's not adware that occupies a
fixed spot in some config screen but shoves popups in your face on
occasion to get you to buy their stuff. That's why I won't use other
products with which Kingsoft has become affiliated, like Cheetah Mobile
anything (e.g., CM Security app for smartphones). They wait until
they acquire sufficient marketshare and then switch sales schemes to
promote their payware knowing the number of lost customers will be
insignificant while they engender a large boost in sales revenue.

I used Kingsoft Office suite on a laptop and my aunt used it. When
Kingsoft went to adware, got rid of it and went to Softmaker's
FreeOffice. Not their Office payware but their FreeOffice product; see
www.freeoffice.com. Also has a mobile app version for use on a
smartphone. Another free choice is LibreOffice (rather big program).

Chrome


Oh, your neighbor doesn't care about their privacy. Or lack of control
over updating (unless you disabled ALL methods, including the scheduled
tasks). If you rein in the misbehaviors of Google Chrome than it's
okay; however, I have seen it switch auto-update stratagies that undid
the tweaks I did to throttle them. Your neighbor will also be
installing many extensions just to get the features already present as
native options in IE, Edge, and Firefox, like new tabs (when clicking on
links) get focus instead of loading in the background making the user
that wants to see the page having to click on the tab to see it. As I
recall, it took 6-10 extensions before Chrome had the same feature set
as other web browsers. Their minimalism is too extreme. There are
other Chromium-based web browser that are not so minimalistic (but I'd
wait awhile before having noobs use Vivaldi).

MBAM


You made your neighbor pay for the full version that has an on-access
(real-time) scanner? Or did you install the free version just so they
would have a second-opinion scanner that they would run manually?

Avira Free A-V


Alas, the free version requires installing their adware toolbar to do
web traffic interrogation. Avast Free includes web traffic scanning,
and can even scan HTTPS web traffic, to check for malicious content.

Disabled the lock screen


This neighbor has no kids, no family, and never has friends come over
that would "play" on his computer under his Windows account?

Set up File History for backup


How about a real backup program? Many are free.

Have I forgotten anything important?


Probably but your neighbor needs to come up with their own criteria,
too.

How about an adblocker for the web browser. Opera includes one but
you'll need to add one for Chrome. Makes page loading faster and often
facilitates easier reading of the page. Also eliminates confusion on
some sites as to what is content from the site and what are ads. Too
often the distinction between site and ad content is blurred or
non-existent. For example, before Softpedia.com changed their page
scheme, you might find a program you wanted to download but got blasted
by 4 "Download" links that all looked alike so you didn't know which one
to click to get what you intended to get. Adblockers cleaned up their
site to remove that confusion. Lots of folks use Adblock Plus. I use
uBlock Origin.
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Old July 21st 16, 02:03 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Keith Nuttle
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Default Setup For Neighbor

On 7/20/2016 7:51 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Set up File History for backup

How about a real backup program? Many are free.


In my opinion Windows 10 File History is a great back up program. While
it does not back up the system files, the odds are a normal user will
never need the disk image.

File History backs up and saves all version of your files. You can back
up any folder on the hard drive, not just the My Documents folder as
some think.

Backup files are not encrypted, nor in a proprietary code. You can
retrieve previous version on your file using Windows 10 File Explorer.

It is easy to restore your files also.

You can save to any storage media and if it is a laptop it will cache
your file and back up when the disk is connected.
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Old July 21st 16, 03:13 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
s|b
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Default Setup For Neighbor

On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 19:40:44 -0400, Alek wrote:

I like Libreoffice better but that's me. I've used Kingsoft too and it
works okay.


Too slow!


Runs just fine on my SSD and I've disabled the option to let it boot
with Windows. Just saying...

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Old July 21st 16, 05:43 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
VinnyB[_2_]
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Default Setup For Neighbor

On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:38:43 -0400, Alek
wrote in

Disabled the lock screen
Checked that her account was local
Set up File History for backup

Have I forgotten anything important?


Is she good-looking enough to warrant all this work?
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Old July 22nd 16, 12:26 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Setup For Neighbor

VinnyB wrote:

Is she good-looking enough to warrant all this work?


Could be she's a cougar who also makes excellent moist fudgy brownies.
Come hither little boy.
 




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