
It is a lovely piece of [overpriced] hardware that my dad purchased on the advise of a friend from the local warehouse store. [Costco] Name brand Sony - expensive - it must be the perfect gift. ALl for my step mom who would just like a simple system to do her basic word processing/spread sheet needs on to run their household and financial affairs and perhaps get on line occasionally and eventually learn email on a pc. She is a mailbug user and thinks its great. Well It is a Sony VAIO PCV_RS710 Series. Running XPPro. Although I feel pretty comfortable with my system and I too run XPPro Corp do a lot of on line research, I am more sw oriented and have a rudimentary hd understanding.I fully appreciate the dangers of system corruption and importance of Anti Virus spyware adware tools I am not a gamer or multimedia person although I am leaning toward web dev apps. I am completely unfamiliar with the SONY VAIO systems but this pc of hardware seems to be an audio video multimedia dream machine. The only draw back I see AND it is my BIG dislike on all such like it, is that it is Proprietary to itself - if it could do with out microsoft it would really be happy I am sure [like aohell] I don't like the fact that the os is preinstalled prior to purchase. . . . . . . . .AND now the reason for my post. . . . . finallly!!
Because I want to do some basic maintenace this visit home and wanting to add some free tools [ie avg free adawarese noadware spyware blaster spysubtract spybotSnD etc] to safeguard her system from nuisance issues and more dangerous problems, I went to go to the admin profile - like I would at home and of course after loging out of her profile, and doing the ctrl-alt-del combo 2 times and typing in Administrator It occurs to me [ and yes it took me that long to actually catch on]
