"John" wrote in message
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On Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 10:49:51 PM UTC, wrote:
On Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:37:15 UTC, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Not malware exactly more demoware when you buy them these days.
that is malware 
The first
thing any new user should do is strip it back to the core stuff, then
install what they want.
It is, however very wasteful, modern ways of creating software, with
huge
runtimes, loads of graphics and lots of redundant routines in from
different programming environments that folk use to make their
software. Its
no wonder that much of it is only partly accessible.
Brian
Use msconfig to prevent apps starting up at boot time. It's an insane
practice to run all apps all the time. A SSD rather than HDD can make a
huge difference - just keep the hdd for user data. Restart firefox etc
frequently, it's a huge ram hog.
I see dual core processor laptops that are very fast when
new, deteriorate to a snails pace in just loading up. The
malware runs under Windows which is not yet loaded,
yet the laptops still runs slow on bootup.
Thats mostly the malware and trial crap loading as win boots.
How do you get rid of malware?
Identify it and delete it. Can be tricking removing it
tho, the worst of it reinstalls itself at the next boot.
It cant do that if you remove what installs it at the next boot.
There are all sorts of companies saying they can
transform a laptop by just buying their product.
Yeah, but bulk of them are just snake oil.
There is one that has Linux on a USB bypassing the problematic
Windows operating system, that seems to work.
Yeah, its certainly technically possible.
Most people want browsing, email and the odd word processing,
I prefer my word processing to not be very odd at all.
I suppose Linux is good enough and gives a performing
computer with malware which is targeted at Windows users.
Problem is that there are far fewer of those you
know who can help you if you have a problem.
Does Linux have Word compatible word processors?
Yep. The compatibility can be very variable tho depending
on what you need. If you need to be able to edit any word
document that someone will ever send you, few of them are
completely bullet proof I that regard. But then thats just as
true between the various versions of Word itself.