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What's your preferred parental PC deployment?
#324975 - 04/20/14 01:21 AM
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... or any vaguely-computer-illiterate setup?
Mine are used to Windows XP/Windows 7 so lately I set up on each box:
- Windows 7, Windows 8.1 respectively
- Start8 or whatever for 8.1 box
- Firefox/Chrome (they've preferences)
- Norton 360 on both
- TeamViewer on both (remote login FTW)
Anyone else with preferred configs?
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Re: What's your preferred parental PC deployment?
[Re: Stiletto]
#324976 - 04/20/14 02:01 AM
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> ... or any vaguely-computer-illiterate setup?
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> Mine are used to Windows XP/Windows 7 so lately I set up on each box:
> - Windows 7, Windows 8.1 respectively
> - Start8 or whatever for 8.1 box
> - Firefox/Chrome (they've preferences)
> - Norton 360 on both
> - TeamViewer on both (remote login FTW)
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> Anyone else with preferred configs?
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> - Stiletto
I just gave my Mom the Sammy Note Tab 10.1 which is easy enough for the old girl to figure out, and surprising she is very good at multi-touch. I gave her a laptop and it stood gathering dust for months. I would say that it was pretty good example of parental deployment, in this case. 
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Re: What's your preferred parental PC deployment?
[Re: Stiletto]
#324981 - 04/20/14 04:56 AM
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> ... or any vaguely-computer-illiterate setup?
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> Mine are used to Windows XP/Windows 7 so lately I set up on each box:
> - Windows 7, Windows 8.1 respectively
> - Start8 or whatever for 8.1 box
> - Firefox/Chrome (they've preferences)
> - Norton 360 on both
> - TeamViewer on both (remote login FTW)
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> Anyone else with preferred configs?
Pretty much the same, although I haven't been brave enough to inflict Windows 8 on anyone yet. I don't mind it that much personally, but I could see it creating confusion for someone used to an older version of Windows.
I've also had really good luck with the built-in Windows Remote Assistance. They updated it in Windows 7 and it actually works really well.
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Re: What's your preferred parental PC deployment?
[Re: DMala]
#324997 - 04/20/14 05:59 PM
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Set them up as a non privileged user too. It helps mitigate many of the virus's out there as they simply do not have permission to write. If they get in a jam you can just wipe the user instead of the whole computer.
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