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Microsoft woes. Again.
Microsoft sucks!
A while ago I was complaining that my laptop shut down during extended periods of using MS Word. I pinpointed the problem to cut & and paste and the use of the 'track changes' function. Upon loading a doc with tracked changes or upon cutting and pasting (or even just marking) large portions of text, the laptop's fan would fire up noisily, and sometimes the computer would shut off. So I downloaded and installed all the recommended Office service packs. And things got worse.
So, new improved laptop. Well, hubby's old one. As quiet as can be. No excessive fan noises. While hunting for an English dictionary for Word I fell prey to MS's assurances that I need the service patches for security reasons. So, thinking that the problems with the other laptop were hardware related, I downloaded the patches and service updates and whatnot. And now?
The frigging thing turns itself off under exactly the same circumstances that the old one couldn't handle. Something makes the damn thing hot and it shuts down. But for crying out loud, all I'm doing is editing a Word document. Nothing else. I'm not even playing music. Argh!
So, if anyone knows a patch that fixes Windows XP or Word or whatever, could you please let me know? I want my laptop to be cool and silent and reliable. Really, is that too much to ask?
A while ago I was complaining that my laptop shut down during extended periods of using MS Word. I pinpointed the problem to cut & and paste and the use of the 'track changes' function. Upon loading a doc with tracked changes or upon cutting and pasting (or even just marking) large portions of text, the laptop's fan would fire up noisily, and sometimes the computer would shut off. So I downloaded and installed all the recommended Office service packs. And things got worse.
So, new improved laptop. Well, hubby's old one. As quiet as can be. No excessive fan noises. While hunting for an English dictionary for Word I fell prey to MS's assurances that I need the service patches for security reasons. So, thinking that the problems with the other laptop were hardware related, I downloaded the patches and service updates and whatnot. And now?
The frigging thing turns itself off under exactly the same circumstances that the old one couldn't handle. Something makes the damn thing hot and it shuts down. But for crying out loud, all I'm doing is editing a Word document. Nothing else. I'm not even playing music. Argh!
So, if anyone knows a patch that fixes Windows XP or Word or whatever, could you please let me know? I want my laptop to be cool and silent and reliable. Really, is that too much to ask?
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I've looked at it and its not the end of the rainbow and seemed to be missing many features of XP and Word XP that I would not like to do without.
Still, I had a play with it here, just to see what all the fuss was about and to be honest it crashed out more than my computer XP does, but then I don't find XP a problem... 98se and ME yeah, horrible, and Win2K was really unfriendly, but XP, that seems to be the OS that MS got right.
The problem I had with linux is that its terribly difficult to do simple things - such as sharing a network drive. And there was a clear lack of wizards.
Other than that, the free-days of Linux must come to an end and someone must buy the kernal and develop it comericaly for it to even think about taking on MS. Until then, it will remain a minority sport IMHO.
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I hope you have agreat time in Vegas!
*is green with envy*
Do you at least get to see a few shows?