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Egnever

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13. For DVD player software vlc media player is free and will play damn near anything
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 02:58 PM
Aug 2016
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

Windows 10 despite all the nonsense surrounding it from Luddites is a nice operating system. For older folks I would argue it is way better than 7 just because of the search box on the task bar alone.

A question I would ask though is what do you do with the computer. If you simply do email and web surfing I would suggest taking a look at a chromebox.

They run chrome OS instead of windows but when it comes to just web surfing and email they are very hard to beat. You can get a brand new chromebox for around 180 and they have the added benefit of being nearly imune to viruses and if you do get one you can reset the machine in like ten minutes or less and sign back in and it will be mostly just like you left it. They are also lightning fast. You would have to spend a lot more money for a windows machine that performs similarly.

If you watch DVD's on your computer though they dont have DVD players in them.

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