Hi Donk, I tried to setup a home network but I did not know what I was doing. Can you walk me through that?
Well, once again you came through for me. I really owe you a lunch or dinner. You have helped me so much. Thank you so much. Janice On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Donk <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > Hi Janice - > If you have a working home network between your netbook and your PC, you > might be able to put your Office disks in your PC's drive, then access > the PC drive from your netbook, and install office that way. > > Or, it may be simpler to just use a thumb drive if you've already got > one. I dunno what version of Windows you have, but here are the basic > steps: > 1. insert your thumb drive on the PC. > 2. insert your Office disk. If an installation window automatically > pops up, just cancel or close it. > 3. Go to Start, My Computer (in Vista and Win7 it'll just be Computer). > You should see a list of the drives on your computer. > 4. Right-click on your CD/DVD drive, and choose Explore from the popup > menu. > 5. This should open a window showing all the folders/files on the disk. > Go to the Edit menu and choose Select All. > 6. Now go back to the Edit menu and click Copy. > 7. Now you want to access your thumb drive, so go back to Start, My > Computer, and double-click your thumb drive (might be called Removable > Drive). > 8. Now you should be at a window showing the contents of the thumb drive > (if any). > 9. Go to the Edit menu and click Paste. > 10. It will begin copying all the files from the CD/DVD onto your thumb > drive. Might take a few minutes. > 11. After the copying is done you simply need to plug the thumb drive > into your netbook, go to Start, My Computer, and double-click the thumb > drive. > 12 You'll see a window showing the contents of the thumb drive. You are > looking for a file called SETUP.EXE. If you don't see it, it might be > inside a folder. > 13. All you have to do is double click this SETUP.EXE file to start the > Office Installation. > > That should do it. Repost if there's a problem. > Good luck, > Donk > > > On 6/30/2011 4:48 PM, Janice D wrote: > > Hi Donk, > > > > Can you tell me how to copy it to the jump drive? > > > > Also, what do you mean on the same network? > > How do I make my cd/dvd drive shareable on the network? > > > > I follow directions well, but I need to be told what to do. You've helped > > me a few times before with 100% success because of your great > instructions. > > > > > > Thank you. > > Janice > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Donk<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [email protected] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [email protected] Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
