Mike Walsh wrote:@ bark-woof-fetch:-
...the very first thing I did was to boot into a Live Puppy CD and remove the Win 10 infestation with extreme prejudice, before it had the slightest chance of getting its smelly hooks into my nice new hardware. This machine is a 'Windoze virgin', and I have every intention of making sure it stays that way...!!
good one Mike, gave instant chuckles here, if you ever make a Windoze infestation extreme prejudice merch series I'll get the t-shirt right away
I have one laptop rescue mission coming up for my brother and am hopeful he's not mandated by some proprietary software usage in his industry. If he is it may be possible to put it in a virtualbox and fence off for good.
He actually got hit by wannacry or whatever it was called some years ago and had loads of local files
plus the 1:1 offline copies of his Onedrive stored files encrypted for good by the worm. As soon as Onedrive went online it synced up the server storage as well and removed pre-worm versions...
Last time I had a Win setup task for senior family members I tried
https://www.ntlite.com/ and similar tools and it worked fine, you strip away M$ store and defender and all that bloat and get down to 3-4GB. You can even remove the updater and just freeze it down for good.
They are actually Thunderbird and LibreOffice users for years but very very unfamiliar with Win 10 so it could be fun to move them to a bare-bone Puppy with 5 desktop icons for the stuff they need and nothing else. Canon printer/scanner driver could be the showstopper, let's see.
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