Re: OT: Preparing PCs for charity use?

On 2007-12-02 17:31:04 +0000, wildrover.andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andy Hewitt) said:

I know, but I reckon I'll get better answers here.

I've taken on the task of dealing with a heap of PCs that were left at
my sister's church. They ain't good, but would be OK for a little bit of
word processing or Emailing.

They have Win XP on them already, but some are really not up to that
task - four of these are slowish (around 700MHz) Celeron's with XP Pro
on them. My plan is to swap the RAM and drives around to make up a
couple of half decent machines, maybe three.

I need to wipe these really, and reinstall from fresh, as some of these
have come from a school, and still have their data on them. Trouble is,
they also don't have the install discs either, and I don't have any
Windows software myself.

I *do* hope they haven't got any of the school's data on them. We got our apology from the Inland Revenue yesterday :-9

My thought is to bung Win 2000 on them.

What about putting a Linux on them instead? Or FreeBSD, though your sister might not appreciate the devil logo :-)

Cheers,

Chris

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