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Skriven 2005-03-23 10:50:00 av JAY EMRIE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JEAN PARROT
Ärende: XP ?
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JP> ML> I was then given XP Home for my troubles :)

JP>        More troubles ??

JP> ML> I graduated to XPP and there is no going back :)

JP>        Ditto ! There are things happening in his realm that really
JP>  get my goat. When on Bluwave and I want to place the system to
JP>  sleep, it does not. Just sits there. When I close BW, then it goes
JP>  to sleep without any more prompt.

JP>        I was totally irated by the n'work for ever going back to
JP>  MSHOME. The fault was in the KB to chair I/F obviously but I was
JP>  irated anyway. ( Thanks Alan ).

JP>        Then lately, I was mad at IBM. Got a minute or two ? I got
JP>  this fine new Thinkpad, actually two of them, similar ones. After 2
JP>  weeks, I followed the IBM recommendation to make Recovery CDs. First
JP>  try stopped at # 4, second try at # 3. Then the CDRW-DVD would only
JP>  see its own CDs, no normal CD-ROM disks. A phone to IBM got me the
JP>  CDs in the mail. I ran them and then with the new OS, I could not
JP>  load AOL v 9.0. Another call to IBM got me to D/L the Ultra
JP>  application and install. Big mistake, it munged that hidden
JP>  partition on the HD. I sent the TP in to them and they reloaded the
JP>  OS and all their propriatory stuff. Still no AOL 9.

JP>        This TP is of Canadian source. When I got it new it ran AOL 9
JP>  no problem.  The other TP is my daughter's and when I got home, I
JP>  loaded AOL 9 and it ran good. I then made an image of her TP on an
JP>  external 40 g HD. Bird in hand sort of philosophy. IBM.CA refused to
JP>  issue their Canadian content CDs for free ( $49.00 ), bless them. I
JP>  then used that external USB HD and imaged back to my HD the OS from
JP>  my daughter's TP. All is bliss now, AOL v 9.0 runs as good as ever.
JP>  There is a difference between the US and the Cdn loaded stuff but
JP>  nobody at either IBM site was aware of this. Ha ! Why can I load AOL
JP>  9 on the Cdn stuff and not on the US one ?

JP>        All this over a two month period. I just wonder what a normal
JP>   user would have had to do, without the acquired information that I
JP>   have over the years reading this FIDO echo ? A large thank you goes
JP>   out to all here ( save one ) who patiently help me over the years.

The normal user would be cussing IBM from then until doomsday! And letting
the world know about it.

Jay
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