More than a bit hacked off!
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Hey I was meant to be buying a new bike today, but my laptop has packed in and I go back to uni on Monday so I have to buy a new one today and the bike will have to wait - gutted. The thing is most laptops come with Vista (the one I want does) now is it possible to use a Windows XP updrade disk to revert back to XP or will I need to buy a full copy of Windows XP Pro? I have only had a mess about with Vista but didn't like the interface (appearance and usability). I am sure I could get used to it but I am writing my final year project this year and from what I have read Vista is very restrictive and may cause difficulties in permissions for my code. So are the difficulties I have heard about easy enough to avoid? If so shall I stick with Vista Home Premium or get XP Pro? Thanks Dan
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Yeah but Dell seem expensive at the moment compared to the big stores, and thats where I got my old laptop from and as soon as the years warranty was up everything stopped working. Its like they have a big red break laptop button that gets pressed when a warranty runs out as it happened to quite a few people I know. Dan
Hahahaha I got a 2 for this - seems daft I am voicing a genuine concern and stating that Dell are relatively exepnsive - should have just gone all the way, grown a pair and 1'd it. May have been more constructive countering my opinion that way we could have had a genuine discussion. Oh dear I just replied to my own comment - does this mean I am talking to myself - yes it does, wait no it doesnt :-P Dan
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Hahahaha I got a 2 for this - seems daft I am voicing a genuine concern and stating that Dell are relatively exepnsive - should have just gone all the way, grown a pair and 1'd it. May have been more constructive countering my opinion that way we could have had a genuine discussion. Oh dear I just replied to my own comment - does this mean I am talking to myself - yes it does, wait no it doesnt :-P Dan
"Dude, you're gettin' a 2!" Yeah, I don't know what 2, 3, and 4 are good for either.
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"Dude, you're gettin' a 2!" Yeah, I don't know what 2, 3, and 4 are good for either.
Yeah I know its like at schools how they promote its not the winning that counts - anything other than a 5 or a 1 means you are an actual loser - ie - 4 - yeah your not worthy of a 5, 3 - your average 2 - you suck but you arent even worthy of a 1 :-P Dan
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Ed.Poore wrote:
Seriously, you're a programmer who doesn't use shortcuts ?
I use shortcuts exclusively with VS. In fact, I have the stupid toolbar turned off. But Word--I don't actually use Word that often (I do most of my writing in FrontPage), so I've never learned the shortcuts. Knowing a bunch of shortcuts for one bloated tool is enough! Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
I have the stupid toolbar turned off.
True, I do the same, the only ones I leave are sometimes the Standard when doing normal stuff (I think it looks odd without a toolbar :~) and the Debug and Debug Location when debugging.
Marc Clifton wrote:
I don't actually use Word that often
Neither to I but I used it enough for projects to know the shortcuts I used frequently, e.g. styles mainly and inserting TOC, links and pictures.
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Umm.. no time? Since word, by default, highlights words that are misspelled, and you can right click on them to select the correct word? Or.. I just opened word and thought.. Hmm.. Spell checking, that should probably be on the review tab, since i'm reviewing my document. And there it was, the first item.
-- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
Spell checking, that should probably be on the review tab, since i'm reviewing my document. And there it was, the first item.
So it is. Well, when I looked, the "review" tab was not my first choice, because I'd been using "review" strictly for reviewing and making edits to a book I'm editing for someone. It is NOT obvious to me that spell check should be under "review". However, I did go through all the tabs thinking, geez, should be somewhere obvious. I guess this is why I like text better than meaningless icons. On the other hand, this was 10 at night, I was tired and dealing with a crisis that a teacher was having emailing a document to her daughter. Yeah, yeah. I'm making excuses. Marc