trubleshooting a laptop

[Ernest Doub]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net>wrote:

> Hi All, My Daughter has a Dell laptop about 5 years old. It has been a
> nice machine. She bought it used and it was slow as death. It had xp on
> it and she took it to a shop and they installed windows 7 and either
> added a memory stick or replaced the old on with no difference in speed.
> I sent her an Xubuntu live disk for her to try linux with  the thought
> that if it ran at a reasonable speed I would consider the problem is in
> windows. She wasn't able to get it to run as she probably needed to
> press the F12 key to run off her dvd drive or somethin. She is comming
> here this weekend so I thought i'd try to get the devd to run Xubuntu.
> Also I would like to get her hooked on Linux.  Will running Linux off a
> DVD tell me anything about the condition of the hard ware or soft ware.
> She needs Microsift office for her work.  I guess i could install it as
> a virtual program in xubuntu couldn't I??  Any suggestions here would be
> appreciated. She as talked about buy another machine but money is tight
> for her in this economy so I am trying to help.  I may be all wet with
> this but figured it might be worth a try and couldn't hurt anything.
> Doug
>
> appreciated.
>                  Doug Pollard,
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>
 What component of Micro$oft Office is she chained to and why won't Open
Office work?
Has she ever tried Open Office?  The work can be saved in most Micro$soft
compatible formats.
Ed
On the Mojave

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