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Offline Snoopy

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I'm fed up
« on: January 25, 2008, 11:24:00 AM »
With paying someone to crawl around my study, trying to fix my PC so he is going to take it away for a few days. I shall be operating on a strange Lap-top for the duration so if I vanish do not fret. I shall be back  eveilgrin:

Meanwhile he will hopefully install Linux as well.

At the moment and given that I can buy nothing that isn't pre-loaded with Vi$ta this seems to be the cheapest option (actually funds are a little depleted as it seems that no invoices have been sent out for several months  evil:)

Systems are going to be changed on all fronts to make the income gathering more efficient and the PC use more friendly and less liable to failure (Har! Har!)

Now where did I put that Lap-top charging cable?  rubschin:

Hopefully back on air this arfty.
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2008, 11:26:20 AM »
Quote from: Snoopy on January 25, 2008, 11:24:00 AM
With paying someone to crawl around my study, trying to fix my PC so he is going to take it away for a few days. I shall be operating on a strange Lap-top for the duration so if I vanish do not fret. I shall be back  eveilgrin:

Meanwhile he will hopefully install Linux as well.

At the moment and given that I can buy nothing that isn't pre-loaded with Vi$ta this seems to cheapest option (actually funds are a little depleted as it seems that no invoices have been sent out for several months  evil:)

Systems are going to be changed on all fronts to make the income gathering more efficient and the PC use more friendly and less liable to failure (Har! Har!)

Now where did I put that Lap-top charging cable?  rubschin:

Hopefully back on air this arfty.
Poor you... don't waste your time with Vi$ta tho... not under any circumstances...  noooo:
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2008, 11:28:04 AM »
I won't ~ don't worry.
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2008, 11:29:52 AM »
Thing is what is one to do if one wishes to purchase a new laptop and doesn't have old windows discs laying about?
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2008, 11:32:23 AM »
Borrow somebody elses?
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2008, 11:34:01 AM »
Right ~ me man is due at noon so I must disconnect everything and then see if I can get this Lap-top working properly.
See you later.
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2008, 11:34:18 AM »
Quote from: Snoopy on January 25, 2008, 11:32:23 AM
Borrow somebody elses?
You could try that... The shop told me that I couldn't use my XP discs from an old machine but they worked fine - registered on-line and everything. It is legal in my case tho (he hastened to add) as the original XP machine now runs linux…  whistle:
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2008, 11:36:46 AM »
If it's a new machine you nedd to be aware that you may not be able to get all the drivers for XP, some are only available for Vista, although XP does a pretty good job with most devices.
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2008, 11:39:22 AM »
Quote from: Bar Wench on January 25, 2008, 11:29:52 AM
Thing is what is one to do if one wishes to purchase a new laptop and doesn't have old windows discs laying about?

Get friendly with your IT bods at work, its amazing how helpful they can be in cases like this. As long as you have the serial number for your OEM version there shouldnt be a problem with installing from another set of disks.
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2008, 11:40:01 AM »
Quote from: tel on January 25, 2008, 11:36:46 AM
If it's a new machine you nedd to be aware that you may not be able to get all the drivers for XP, some are only available for Vista, although XP does a pretty good job with most devices.
Good point...

My new HP Compaq dx2300 has a sectionj on their website where you can download all the drivers for XP including the Intel chipset drivers...
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2008, 11:40:49 AM »
We don't have IT bods.  noooo:

So all I would need is the discs and the serial number? I can get those easily!
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2008, 11:41:42 AM »
Quote from: Bar Wench on January 25, 2008, 11:40:49 AM
We don't have IT bods.  noooo:

So all I would need is the discs and the serial number? I can get those easily!
Yes...
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2008, 11:44:12 AM »
Quote from: Bar Wench on January 25, 2008, 11:40:49 AM
We don't have IT bods.  noooo:

So all I would need is the discs and the serial number? I can get those easily!

And patience.
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2008, 11:44:51 AM »
Thats the theory anyway, I've never tried it myself but I cant see Microsoft adding in seperate code to each version of XP they produce in order to stop reinstallation from other disks.

You only need patience if you are reinstalling XP media centre edition after testing vista ultimate and scrapping it.  Banghead
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Re: I'm fed up
« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2008, 11:47:19 AM »
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