Hello MFPA, On Saturday, October 11, 2014 you wrote:
M> Hi M> On Saturday 11 October 2014 at 2:35:54 PM, in M> <mid:1616191166.20141011083...@charter.net>, Jack S. LaRosa wrote: >> Hello TBUDLs, >> A fruitless telephone session with an ASUS representative taught me >> that I wouldn't be able to downgrade this $900 laptop to Win 7 >> because "there were no drivers for Win 7 on the ASUS website." M> Unless the box contains bespoke components unique to ASUS, drivers M> could probably be sourced elsewhere. Or from the ASUS website by M> searching on a Win7 model with similar spec. But still. A moot point now. I'll stick with Win 8 especially since I loaded "ClassicStart" which gives me a Start button *and* menu just like Win 7. M> Firewall and anti-virus software can be the cause of various M> mystery problems. I have had to switch AV programs two or three M> times over the years because an "upgrade" to the AV either would M> not install on my system, or else caused it to keep crashing. M> If you have a router, that may well incorporate a firewall as well. Probably, but I've used Windows firewall on this PC for a while now without any intrusions not caused by me and my inattentiveness when installing new software. >> Curiously, and this may explain why I had been having the first 56 >> characters appear in the registration box, when I went to register >> I copied the key block into the clipboard and did HELP/ENTER >> REGISTRATION CODE and a message immediately popped up thanking me >> for registering the program. I never even had a chance to paste >> the clipboard contents into the registration box. Apparently TB >> fetches the contents of the clipboard automatically when you're >> trying to register the program. M> Seems odd that TB! would *assume* you had the registration key on M> the clipboard. Even odder that it would thank you for registering M> if it didn't grab the right length of string. I may not have phrased that correctly. The "Thank you.." message appeared ONLY after erasing MaAfee and then copying the keyblock into my clipboard AND THEN calling HELP/ENTER REGISTRATION CODE. It would seem that TB did in fact *assume* the keyblock existed in the clipboard and grabbed it and verified it before "Thanking" me. Go figure. -- Best Regards, Jack LaRosa :usflag: Central Alabama Using The Bat! ver: 5.2. Running Windows 7 Pro ver 6 build 7601 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 6.6 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
