On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 21:22 -0500, M Harris wrote: > On Monday 02 April 2007 21:05, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: > > Long ago about 2000 years we were warned we could not serve both GOD and > > Bill Gates. > Preach it, bubba.... > > ... Amen > -- > Kind regards, > > M Harris <><
My boss went out and got him a new preconfigured PC with Vista Home Premium yesterday. It landed in my office; I had to look at it and get it hooked up to a small network. After switching on the system, it took 15-20 minutes before it showd a desktop. Huh, an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, at 2.13 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 1066 MHz FSB 1GB Ram (DDR2 SDRam 533 MHz, 64 Bit), with NVidia GeForce 7650 GS (256 MB DDR2 HDMI & DVI). Thereafter it takes 90-120 seconds to start WinVista. On the first start, after about 25 minutes, "BullGuard" appeared, demanding an email address to register it. I pressed PrtScreen to make a screen capture, because I always document such things (in this case the first start of a brand new pre-installed machine) for future use with new users or system installation. I use MSOffice Word, or MSWorks writer if no office is installed yet. I pressed Ctrl-V to paste the screen capture in MSWorks Wordprocessor. A pop-up appeared; "Works cannot access one or more required files. The files may have been renamed, deleted, or moved. Try reinstalling Works, and then start the program again" !!! After rebooting the same problem with Works. Each time with a scroll-down the error pops up. In the mean time BullGuard persisted its registration need, till it was set to do registration later. Only 7 days left it displayed. Inthe mean time Vista updated 5 files and wanted a reboot. OK .. let it be ... After a reboot BullGuard appeared with its desktop. All windows open neatly with a fade in and fade out when closing. It feels rather retarded, rubber like and quite slow to react for such a fast system. The desktop looked like a childrens toy-PC, quite colourfull. Looking for the menu items to set up the system, it has a XP update feeling. Pre-Installed was MS Office 2007. Got a test version key from the OEM supplier. Could convert to a full version just by entering a key. Entered the "Trail Product Key". It registered automatically and checked it with a green checkmark. With the next start of Office, it had to be registered or convert to a full version. Customer lock in for Office? Now MSWorks does not start at all anymore ... "Program closed due to etc. ...". After the new boot, it was there again, .. for how long before the next error message? Interestingly, there was also a CD-Key from CyberLink Power Cinema for Linux in the box as well. Just a day in the life of a first time start of Vista ... :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
