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Re: Licensing woes [message #68488 is a reply to message #68387]

Fri, 30 October 2009 15:55

David Gell
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Registered: January 2009

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On Oct 30, 7:41 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Haje Korth writes:
>> with new Windows OS you should never attempt an upgrade (that's not in
>> the marketing materials but any pro will tell you that). Save your
>> work files and do a fresh install. No need to keep any of the old slow
>> system cr*p around.
>
> Yes, this was a clean install of Windows 7, so I was re-installing
> all of my application software after Windows installation (which
> did go smoothly). My problems came when I was trying to restore
> some application data from the Windows.old file that the install ion
> created. (I was trying to recover my e-mail history, actually.)
>
> Windows had tagged these files as read-only, so my clean install
> of Eudora couldn't use them. It is *unbelievable* what hoops you
> have to jump through to do the very simplest things on your
> computer! I'm glad I learned how to do it, though, because
> yesterday Quickbooks couldn't finish an upgrade because their
> upgrade installer didn't have enough permissions to update
> the manifest file. Sheesh.
>
> I'm all for computer security, but what is the point if you
> can't get any work done!?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

This may be a good time to upgrade to a Mac :-)

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		Licensing woes By: ben.bighair on Wed, 28 October 2009 18:15
		Re: Licensing woes By: Trae on Sat, 31 October 2009 14:38
		Re: Licensing woes By: ben.bighair on Mon, 02 November 2009 10:46
		Re: Licensing woes By: David Fanning on Fri, 30 October 2009 16:15
		Re: Licensing woes By: David Gell on Fri, 30 October 2009 15:55
		Re: Licensing woes By: Haje Korth on Fri, 30 October 2009 07:53
		Re: Licensing woes By: David Fanning on Fri, 30 October 2009 05:41

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