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I helped my wife's Aunt and Uncle with a hardware (memory + CD-RW) and software (Win98 ->>WinXP) upgrade this weekend. It went okay (I think), but one annoyance was their net access. Since they're out in a relatively rural area -- if Amish are parking buggies in your barn, it's rural -- they only have dialup access. So I tried to anticipate everything I'd need and burned it to a CD beforehand. I got most of it, but the things I had to contend with were Windows Update downloads, other custom software they use with ebay, and the printer driver. Being naive, I figure the printer driver can't be too big, right? ...
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