has 20+ viruses and at least 2 rootkits. I have her turn off the PC. At my next visit, I bring and install Lubuntu 10.04. She was really afraid of Ubuntu, until she sat behind it and saw the GUI and menu. She'd been using all the programs already -- Firefox, Thunderbird, Acrobat reader, and OpenOffice looked enough like the other programs that she figured it out quickly. No fuss. I installed Quicken under WINE too. It works. That was in 2010. I've been patching the system and performing backups from 5 states away ever since. All automatic. Every program on the system gets patched, no need for her to be prompted when she starts Firefox that a new version is available. Patching happens at the OS layer, not application layer. Same for Adobe Flash updates -- those happen at the OS layer too. In July, the motherboard failed. It was a P4, so it was well passed time to fail. Swapped the HDD into a new system, a Core i7, booted, and everything was back just as before, well everything except the virus infected Windows. It refused to boot, but since Mom hadn't used it at all in 2 yrs, it was no great loss, except the license isn't useful anymore. A waste of money. Besides that the system was MUCH quicker. P4 to i7, it should be faster, though not really all that much according to Mom. No viruses since and she doesn't worry about them at all.