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rosebeeLet’s see, I wanted to do a plant/garden theme name for my computer, and now lemme think… what’s my online name again? ::smacks forehead::
Thank you ALL for your polling assistance! J
New computer, I shall dub thee Rose.
And now on to the fun Rose & I have been having, or rather not having.
It’s been so VERY long since I’ve had to deal with the headache that is setting up a new computer that I’ve forgotten how painful it can be.
I’ve had my old one customized & set up just exactly the way I liked it for so long that I took it for granted.
All last night was spent banging my head against the wall of Windows XP. I’d install a program or something, find that Rose wouldn’t install the program when I was logged in as me, but only as administrator. So I’d run the installer as administrator, and I ran other installers as administrator…
I patted myself on the back for getting it done, then logged off & back on as myself.
None of the desktop icons, quick launch shortcuts, or any of the other nifty little things that happen when one installs a program showed up.
I had to go back and do it all manually.
I’d used Windows 98 for many years. It was easy for me to understand how it functioned, and it worked for me. This XP thing is for the birds! I like Rose very much though. She’s all sorts of fast & quiet! I walked in the computer room this morning and I was at first afraid something had happened and Rose had lost power because all I heard was my old computer, I wasn’t hearing a peep of Rose’s hard drive or fans or anything.
HTB helped me get this nifty little utility for Rose so I can log in as myself and have administrator permissions so I can do everything I want to without XP yelling at me that I don’t have access. The utility is DropMyRights, and you somehow put it before the actual target of a shortcut and then that shortcut runs with less access than what you actually have. So I can do email & web surfing with normal rights (and not administrator rights, which is a bad thing to have running when you’re doing those sorts of things).
There’s still a bit more stuff to install & do. I’ll be SOO happy when Rose is all setup & done and I can just play!
Tonight is installing Quicken, creating the necessary System Recovery DVD’s (since it didn’t come with an XP install disc, just a ‘recovery’ partition hidden on the hard drive). Then is creating Recovery Tools (which the literature that came with Rose tell me I can use to remove the recovery partition, as well as create new partitions).
Whether or not it’ll let me create partitions in space that’s already allocated is an entirely different story!
Thank you ALL for your polling assistance! J
New computer, I shall dub thee Rose.
And now on to the fun Rose & I have been having, or rather not having.
It’s been so VERY long since I’ve had to deal with the headache that is setting up a new computer that I’ve forgotten how painful it can be.
I’ve had my old one customized & set up just exactly the way I liked it for so long that I took it for granted.
All last night was spent banging my head against the wall of Windows XP. I’d install a program or something, find that Rose wouldn’t install the program when I was logged in as me, but only as administrator. So I’d run the installer as administrator, and I ran other installers as administrator…
I patted myself on the back for getting it done, then logged off & back on as myself.
None of the desktop icons, quick launch shortcuts, or any of the other nifty little things that happen when one installs a program showed up.
I had to go back and do it all manually.
I’d used Windows 98 for many years. It was easy for me to understand how it functioned, and it worked for me. This XP thing is for the birds! I like Rose very much though. She’s all sorts of fast & quiet! I walked in the computer room this morning and I was at first afraid something had happened and Rose had lost power because all I heard was my old computer, I wasn’t hearing a peep of Rose’s hard drive or fans or anything.
HTB helped me get this nifty little utility for Rose so I can log in as myself and have administrator permissions so I can do everything I want to without XP yelling at me that I don’t have access. The utility is DropMyRights, and you somehow put it before the actual target of a shortcut and then that shortcut runs with less access than what you actually have. So I can do email & web surfing with normal rights (and not administrator rights, which is a bad thing to have running when you’re doing those sorts of things).
There’s still a bit more stuff to install & do. I’ll be SOO happy when Rose is all setup & done and I can just play!
Tonight is installing Quicken, creating the necessary System Recovery DVD’s (since it didn’t come with an XP install disc, just a ‘recovery’ partition hidden on the hard drive). Then is creating Recovery Tools (which the literature that came with Rose tell me I can use to remove the recovery partition, as well as create new partitions).
Whether or not it’ll let me create partitions in space that’s already allocated is an entirely different story!
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Date: 2006-01-26 08:09 pm (UTC)I responded to the poll yesterday and then didn't go back to look at the answers. Seems like we all had the same idea!
I hope you and Rose will be very happy together.
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Date: 2006-01-27 03:07 am (UTC)I think Rose & I will be very happy together. We're already getting over our little tiff last night about XP behaving so differently than what I was used to on my old machine. ;)