[mso] Re: The pc arrived--with corrupted software
- From: "Collier, Pauline L" <pcollier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:43:40 -0500
Kathie,
I hate to tell you this, but I have had similar problems. I have a Mac
(Powerbook) that runs beautifully (os 10.2.6) over an airport with
Roadrunner (cable). I have tried many times to put my Compaq laptop (XP -
Xtra Problematic) on my home network. I have plugged it straight into the
cable modem even. It absolutely will not connect correctly. I am also tech
coord at a school with 300+ Macs, 400+ win 98 machines, and 150+ XPs. They
are all connected to the LAN, WAN and internet through ethernet and T1.
Guess which machines will not connect, either reliably or at all? I am
really ready to toss them all.
Office XP actually works well on these computers, even with the connectivity
problems - unless, of course, the computer crashes. Then, I have to install
Office over the server and -you guessed it- I can't "see" the server to
install. So,...
Sorry for the long response, but felt like I needed to add my "me too".
Polly
-----Original Message-----
From: Katherine Driskell Felts [mailto:subscriptions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 2:30 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] The pc arrived--with corrupted software
I ordered a pc laptop weeks and weeks ago so I could be cool like all of
you. It FINALLY arrived, but with bad software (or something).
Having not yet been able to get on the internet with it, and having spent
hours with my internet people and minutes with the hardware providers (who
quickly say it's an ISP issue) I have determined that the software that came
on the computer is bad. (The macs are online through the router and modem,
for example)
I worry about a bad office XP home edition being a poor platform to run
Office XP (see, desperately trying to be close to on topic so I can ask my
friends for advice), but I'm not sure what I can do. I'm doing a software
re-install now, but I feel up a creek without a reliable operating system.
(The ISP guy actually suggested that he gets OS problems with windows that
never show up on Apple and I just about died laughing).
Any advice or reassurance?
And assuming I don't throw it out the window, do you know how I can move
palm desktop info and OE files from the apple into Outlook on the pc (see!
again flirting with the topic!)
Kathie
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