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Re: Licensing woes [message #68508 is a reply to message #68387]

Fri, 30 October 2009 05:41

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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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

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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.")

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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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