Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] All your MS Office are belong to me!

[Mikhail Kovalenko <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> It seems very familiar to me.  I've been forced to insert my Win98 CD many
> times.  I now carry it in my laptop bag wherever I go.

Do like OEMs and copy the WIN98 directory to your hard drive. Will save
you a lot of time.

MS Frontpage is another such fine product. I have done numerous FP
installations but still cannot figure why, when one tries to connect to
a "web", Frontpage sometimes insists on you inserting the installation
CD, otherwise refusing to load. The kicker is that it seems totally
unrelated to the installation options picked or the kind of PC it is on
-- Frontpage does it on some machines but not on others. *Very*
annoying...

> Another wacky example:  In our dept., many of us installed Office onto our
> NT machines from a departmental NT server.  The software on the server was
> updated and the old version of Office was removed and the old directory
> was deleted.  Now, when someone wants to Uninstall their old Office, they
> cannot do it!  It will not uninstall unless it can get to the directory it
> was originally installed from.  But that directory doesn't exist!  MS is
> just wacky -- when the install a product, they should give it everything
> it needs to uninstall itself.  So we cannot delete Office 97 from our
> machines.  We delete what files we can and we install the new Office 2000.

Speaking of Office 2000, computer lab assistants that power up lab's PCs
regularly should just *love* its new indexing "feature" - the thing
kicks in on random boots and promptly locks up the machine before the
desktop has a chance to load. There's only a 5-second window to cancel
the process, and it doesn't always work either. It's a lot of fun
watching 50 machines boot all at the same time and try not to miss the
little prompt wherever it shows up. Thanks to Microsoft, my reaction
times are now twice as short  :D

-- MK

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