Dateline: Home Study

Much of today was spent upgrading an old computer. My wife has grown increasingly more frustrated with her aging iMac so I decided to go ahead and upgrade an old Dell P-4 I have sitting around. Okay, and I was also tired of the old sitting around. To make life easier I just reformatted the hard drive and did a clean install of Windows XP Pro followed by all the service packs and updates. I then installed Office XP, Norton Firewall and Anti-Virus, and Eudora. I did the light version of Eudora for her since she is not a power email user. I started to go ahead and convert her to Outlook for email but I like (and use) Eudora so much and she is familiar with it, that I just had to stick with the program.

All in all it was not a difficult process. It was a bit time consuming and hence one of the reason I upgrade my hardware a while back. For what she does though it will work fine. Now, I just have find a solitaire game that she will like (not sure the built-in version is good enough for her).