Dana-
I'm totally sympathetic to your problem, butI don't think it's fair to
blame MS for this problem... I mean, it's aggravating, but the proper
procedure of removing the program was not followed. You moved some stuff,
and you broke the installation. You weren't sure of what exactly you were
doing before you did it.
It's kind of like looking into a car trunk and deciding that you want to
make more room by removing the spare and cutting out the wires that run the
taillight, then wondering why cars keep crashing into you.
As a former MS employee, I can tell you that they really work hard to
fix the bugs in their programs. The other part of this is protecting the
end user from ruining the applicaiton - that's why they request that you
have the install disk. And at least they provide a method of fixing their
programs when the customer breaks it.
Sorry for the rant, I just get tired of hearing anti-MS stuff from
everybody who complains when it doesn't work perfectly every time. And
especially from programmers - I doubt any one of them has written 50 million
lines of error-free code.
- Matt Small
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: gotta love microsoft
> jesus, it's still going throug the activation wizard. Great error
> messages too :) "for other potential solutions to the problem, see ."
> Can't select and paste into another program either, all those options
> are disabled.
>
> Thanks Microsoft, I *needed* to dig around in boxes of stuff tonight
> looking for an install CD. (Various rude comments deleted.)
>
> Dana
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:24:21 -0700, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> ok, so put them back and then uninstall FP you think? Thanks. I moved
>> my paging files to E so I might have room now. I suppose it seems
>> kinda dumb but at the time it seemed like a better idea than moving 11
>> gigs of Adobe suite.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dana
>>
>> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:15:39 -0500, Matthew Small
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > You need to put the files you took from Frontpage back and then
>> > uninstall
>> > about everything you don't need or can reinstall onto drive E. Moving
>> > any
>> > Office files around is a major deal to Office because the applications
>> > share
>> > so many files. I would definitely uninstall other programs before just
>> > moving something. I imagine you'll find that you don't need most of
>> > the
>> > stuff on your computer, or at least, I would.
>> >
>> > - Matt Small
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Dana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 8:10 PM
>> > Subject: gotta love microsoft
>> >
>> > > Alright, so I am trying to install XMLSpy last night and it seems
>> > > that
>> > > everything I have installed lately wants to be on the C drive and so
>> > > I
>> > > have 38 megs of space available on C and about 30 gigs on E <g>
>> > >
>> > > Obviously this is not good so I moved some programs, managing, as
>> > > mentioned earlier, to break Quicktime in the process, but erm, ok,
>> > > XMLSpy is installed and I can live without watching Ann Coulter just
>> > > now, and I have stuff to do. Except that well, one of the things I
>> > > moved was FrontPage; the logic being that I never use it anyway and
>> > > what do I care if it ceases to work?
>> > >
>> > > (wait for it)
>> > >
>> > > Seems Microsoft considers this a major system change and wants a CD
>> > > before it will let me use Excel. Office just kinda came with the
>> > > computer.
>> > >
>> > > Any suggestions out there? Is it in a .cab file somewhere? It's
>> > > telling me I should have a proplus.msi file, but it lets me cancel
>> > > out
>> > > of that, so do I even care?
>> > >
>> > > Dana
>> > > --
>> > > ....they did not stop to think they died instead
>> > > then shall the voice of liberty be mute?"
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>
>
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