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Old computer help.....

  • 03-07-2012 12:40pm
    #1
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    Hope I'm posting in the right place. I'm cleaning up an old computer for a friend - a Dell Latitude D600. All ok but only has 256MB ram and it is quite slow.

    I'm trying to find a decent free antivirus prog that will run with such a small amount of ram.

    I know, people are going to say to install more ram but the user doesn't want to spend too much money on the machine seeing as it's so old.

    So, any suggestions on a free antivirus package that has a really small ram footprint?

    Cheers :)


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  • #2
    Sup08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭Sup08


    if your running Xp this will do

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials/product-information?t1=sysreq


  • #3
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    Sup08 wrote: »
    if your running Xp this will do

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials/product-information?t1=sysreq


    That's what I normally use for XP machines but for some reason it is hogging way too much ram on this computer. Have cleared nearly everything from Starup Group to free ram but it makes no difference :(


  • #4
    Supermensch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭Supermensch


    I've run AVG happily enough on 256MB of ram.

    http://free.avg.com/ie-en/homepage

    Would you be open to installing some form of Linux on it, or is there some applications on the computer that is need? A distribution like Lubuntu or Arch Linux + Openbox would run faster, and you wouldn't need virus protection.


  • #5
    Sup08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭Sup08


    if you are going to stay with XP then I would personally would buy some cheap second hand ram from Adverts, my personal opinion would be Essentials is one of the best free anti-virus programs and the others are not very secure. Just my opinion :S


  • #6
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    Supermensch wrote: »
    I assume you're running Windows (XP?). I've run AVG happily enough on 256MB of ram.

    http://free.avg.com/ie-en/homepage

    Would you be open to installing some form of Linux on it, or is there some applications on the computer that is need? A distribution like Lubuntu or Arch Linux + Openbox would run faster, and you wouldn't need virus protection.

    Which version of AVG are you using? Always found that the newer versions are quite slow so stopped using it. Maybe they've changed lol. Might try it anyway :)

    The owner of the machine is quite old - it's a struggle for him to switch the computer on and send an email so Linux would be a real disaster. and a massive job for me to teach him how to use it heehee.


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