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The only online games he plays are web games, which don't seem to have a problem with the anti-viral sw.
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They better not, or they won't get anywhere.
The question is why the local, single player games
do. I can't hazard a guess: all of mine are ancient DOS ports of games from VMS and Unix, like Emopire, Larn, and Nethack.
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He prefers single-player games unless he's going to play with someone he knows, and the other person he likes to play with doesn't have broadband at home. (Yes, there are people who still don't!)
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Lots of them. Plenty of folks live in areas too far from a CO to get DSL, too far out for the cable companies to profitably string cable, and not in good places for a satellite dish. And plenty of other folks who
could get broadband but balk at the cost.
I had both DSL
and a cable modem for a while. DSL came first, as cable modem service wasn't available when I went looking for broadband. Then my cable provider upgraded in my area and cable modems became available, so I got one. But I kept the DSL line as a high speed backup for some time. Having experienced broadband, I wasn't about to revert to dial-up for
any reason.
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I know about Norton Ghost, and if it comes up again, I may have to do this. Certainly it would be easier in terms of installing drivers-- I couldn't remember which video card I'd bought for him, and the box was lost or packed away in our move two years ago, so I actually had to pull the card out to get the SN and search online to see what drivers I needed.
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I learned the hard way to keep local copies of driver install packages, for when I had to re-install. I may go looking for updates once I'm up and running, but first, I want to
be up and running.
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Dennis