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Project "Terminator"

I fired up the Terminator today, wiped the hard drive, and am in the process of installing XP-Pro SP3 on it, even with SP3 on the disc there are 99 updates in just the FIRST round of updates. The second round was 52, then 3, then I installed all of the programs the computer needed.
I believe I am going to test run this machine with Microsoft Security Essentials, a free program that is supposed to replace anti-virus and malware programs? I guess I'll see? It seems to be self updating also?
So, project Terminator, and Asus Motherboard, AMD Duron 1.20GHz processor, and 1,024Mb of ram. I know this doesn't sound like much, but in its day it was considered to be "bad" LOL!
There are the normal programs that will be installed, Firefox, Open Office, The Gimp, Audacity, Paint.net, Auslogics Disk Defrag, Auslogics Registry Defrag, Auslogics Registry Cleaner (Think I like these guy's?) C Cleaner and so on. Most of these programs are Freeware, so of course they are "FREE!"
I'm not sure what I will use the machine for, I could use it as a file server? but for now, it is a toy to play with! Other than a little bit of cleaning this rig didn't need too much, there is a fan vibration, but I'll take care of that later on.
So, the vibration? It turns out I broke the CPU fan while cleaning the computer, DOH! I was fortunate enough to have another one to replace it with.
After all of the installation, I did all the cleaning and de-fragmenting, a nice little computer to play with, not sure what it will become yet?
I may look into a video card for this one, the maximum memory is 1,024Mb, the video card, even if it was only 128Mr or 256Mb would take a load off the memory of the computer and improve its performance, nothing major, but it would run much better. GPC Computer in G.R. has some used cards, I could pick one up for just a few bucks?
Me!

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