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    Quote Originally Posted by sideways14a View Post
    Ohh i forgot to mention, the base model you bought doesnt come with all the keys working, you need to upgrade to the more expensive one to get that.
    I would actually fall for that.

    I suppose I could change the WiFi password so that it doesn't include this particular letter

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    After my third trip to PC World in 2days, I'm finally with a working laptop

    First things first was to **** Cortana off

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    Make sure its doing its updates and get something decent for malware protection like malwarebytes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sideways14a View Post
    Make sure its doing its updates and get something decent for malware protection like malwarebytes.
    All done Captain

    Is the Premium worth paying for?

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    I run the free version of malwarebytes. The constant request to upgrade are annoying. It depends on your tolerance for pop-ups

    I also run Norton Security Deluxe AntiVirus which isn't that expensive if you buy it from Amazon. Lots cheaper than buying it from Symantec. £19 for 5 licences for a year.

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    MWB is worth paying for, i use it and it really does the job.
    The free one is good but imho the paid one is worth the cash.

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    Don't forget to uninstall a load of the bundled shite they put on there.

    They often put a trial version of McAfree on, which obviously you don't want if you're going to use Norton.

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    Yeah get jiggy with the uninstaller, most consumer laptops are saddled with masses of trial guff and what not.
    Does your company have an office 365 setup? you can prob install your "home" copy on it if so.

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    She gets free office 365 as being part of her life as a perpetual student

    Cheers, sorted free version of malwarebytes for now and will sort rest later.

    Appreciate the advice.

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    Office 365 really is a good deal if your a student or work in education/somewhere with O365 sub.
    I know folk keep banging on about linux and free ms office type apps but that whole setup is not anywhere near the capability of 10+365.. not in a bajillion years.
    Also Macs are A to expensive, B to limited and C too ****ing slow (yes they bloody well are, 2k for my last apple laptop purchase and its quad core cpu throttles and is circa mid range i5 spec)

    Windows aint bad, office is pretty good. just got to take care of it all.

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