Finally got SP2 and Norton Internet Security playing nicely together, after multiple rounds of update-and-reboot. Ran full scan of (still almost empty) system to keep Norton happy. Installed Putty and TightVnc Viewer, set up e-mail and imported (with a great deal of fiddling about) my salvaged e-mail folders, the main Inbox on its third disk transfer in a month. Installed AdAware, which is now scanning.
(If anyone needs to know how to do the e-mail folder migration trick for Outlook Express, let me know! Or if anyone has a solution that doesn't involve telling each folder in turn that it's Inbox, ditto.)
It's been --- what, nearly a month? I'd almost forgotten how hot, heavy and noisy this machine is. (Sony Vaio PCG-K15, 2.8GHz, 7.5 pounds plus another 1.5 for the power supply. Way overpowered for a laptop, really, but I had ambitions to use it for serious calculations. In the event, all that power comes in quite handy for playing with photos, anyway. They don't make them like this any more, or not very much.)
(If anyone needs to know how to do the e-mail folder migration trick for Outlook Express, let me know! Or if anyone has a solution that doesn't involve telling each folder in turn that it's Inbox, ditto.)
It's been --- what, nearly a month? I'd almost forgotten how hot, heavy and noisy this machine is. (Sony Vaio PCG-K15, 2.8GHz, 7.5 pounds plus another 1.5 for the power supply. Way overpowered for a laptop, really, but I had ambitions to use it for serious calculations. In the event, all that power comes in quite handy for playing with photos, anyway. They don't make them like this any more, or not very much.)
