New Laptop - which flavour of Windows? (and other issues)
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From: Adrian C on 13 Mar 2010 10:12 On 13/03/2010 13:18, John Doue wrote: > On 3/13/2010 5:56 AM, Adrian C wrote: >> >> Need to find round tuits. >> > You lost me here. What does your last sentence mean? > Sorry, it's uk.x parlance. It's an expression of my admitted laziness :-) http://everything2.com/title/round+tuit -- Adrian C
From: Roger Mills on 13 Mar 2010 10:48 In an earlier contribution to this discussion, geoff <raden(a)kateda.org> wrote: > In message <7vv2rbFst9U1(a)mid.individual.net>, Roger Mills > <watt.tyler(a)googlemail.com> writes >> I'm in the market for a new laptop computer. I need to have access >> to the same software and data files at two different locations, and >> have decided that a single laptop is preferable to maintaining two >> lots of hardware and trying to keep them in synch. >> > > Ask me when I phone you when your fan's ready > > I have a few pointers Will do. Ta! -- Cheers, Roger _______ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.
From: Roger Mills on 13 Mar 2010 11:15 In an earlier contribution to this discussion, Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM(a)neo.rr.com> wrote: > Re: "But why? My attitude is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"!" > > Because it is broken, only the cracks are not on the surface. > > There is NO support by Intuit for anything over about 3 years old. > There are security issues. And once you get more than about 6 years > old, you may not be ABLE to migrate from the old version to a current > version. Sorry, you've lost me! I've used Quicken 98 for 12 years or so to do the accounts for my own family and for two voluntary organisations with which I am associated without requiring any support from Intuit. So why should I need any *now*? *What* security issues? My use of it never goes anywhere near the internet! -- Cheers, Roger _______ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.
From: John Rumm on 13 Mar 2010 12:23 Barry Watzman wrote: > There are 3 options for these situations: > > 1. Put up with the very annoying UAC prompts every time you use the > older programs. > > 2. Turn off UAC entirely. Not recommended by the experts, but in > reality you are no worse off than you would be if you were just using XP. > > 3. It is possible to configure UAC behavior on a program-by-program > basis, e.g. off for ill-behaved older programs but on for later, UAC > compliant software. A web search will find instructions. It's not easy > or fun; this was not something Microsoft really intended to support, but > it can be manually configured. It can go a bit deeper than just dealing with UAC IME... for example Word 2003 will install and run ok on Win7, but will pop up the license acceptance agreement for the user to OK every time it runs. This seems to be a failure to record the users acceptance, due to write permissions. However it does not generate a UAC popup when it attempts to save the users answer. With that one, you can fix it by doing a run as admin on it, accepting the agreement popup and then closing it. Next time you run with normal rights, it works normally. -- Cheers, John. /=================================================================\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \=================================================================/
From: Barry Watzman on 13 Mar 2010 12:33
Re: "for example Word 2003 will install and run ok on Win7, but will pop up the license acceptance agreement for the user to OK every time it runs" It does not do that on my system. John Rumm wrote: > Barry Watzman wrote: >> There are 3 options for these situations: >> >> 1. Put up with the very annoying UAC prompts every time you use the >> older programs. >> >> 2. Turn off UAC entirely. Not recommended by the experts, but in >> reality you are no worse off than you would be if you were just using XP. >> >> 3. It is possible to configure UAC behavior on a program-by-program >> basis, e.g. off for ill-behaved older programs but on for later, UAC >> compliant software. A web search will find instructions. It's not >> easy or fun; this was not something Microsoft really intended to >> support, but it can be manually configured. > > It can go a bit deeper than just dealing with UAC IME... > > for example Word 2003 will install and run ok on Win7, but will pop up > the license acceptance agreement for the user to OK every time it runs. > This seems to be a failure to record the users acceptance, due to write > permissions. However it does not generate a UAC popup when it attempts > to save the users answer. > > With that one, you can fix it by doing a run as admin on it, accepting > the agreement popup and then closing it. Next time you run with normal > rights, it works normally. > > |