This week, the kids rather aged Compaq did the decent thing and quietly died. Given a lot of options we decided the sensible one was to spend a few quid on a new laptop for the kids.
Today, we diverted and spent the day up in Aber with Bruce, this was of course was an excuse to go for lunch which was a chance for me not to get the navigation right and we ended up a good way away in a lovely pub we last stopped at on the day we brought the T4 home.
But anyway, I digress, home we came and there was the new puter. Management dismayed the kids, taking one look at the new computer and decided it was hers.
Her current computer would be theirs.
This is of course not good, she might well have a Diploma in Computing, which, I think counted for not a lot in setting up the new laptop.
I think it is pretty accurate to say that most of this evening has been given over to removing all the things she did not want. Loading all her email history onto the external drive and transferring on to the new computer.
Removing Norton, installing AVG and getting her version of Office installed on the new computer. Somehow the 60 day trial version of Office is defying all attempts to remove it. I've had to try and work out from the settings on thunderbird how to configure her outlook distress account.
This involved lots of complicated arguments, deep concentration, with what could be described as random stabs at the keyboard.
A bit like watching Rodney Trotter really....
R
Today, we diverted and spent the day up in Aber with Bruce, this was of course was an excuse to go for lunch which was a chance for me not to get the navigation right and we ended up a good way away in a lovely pub we last stopped at on the day we brought the T4 home.
But anyway, I digress, home we came and there was the new puter. Management dismayed the kids, taking one look at the new computer and decided it was hers.
Her current computer would be theirs.
This is of course not good, she might well have a Diploma in Computing, which, I think counted for not a lot in setting up the new laptop.
I think it is pretty accurate to say that most of this evening has been given over to removing all the things she did not want. Loading all her email history onto the external drive and transferring on to the new computer.
Removing Norton, installing AVG and getting her version of Office installed on the new computer. Somehow the 60 day trial version of Office is defying all attempts to remove it. I've had to try and work out from the settings on thunderbird how to configure her outlook distress account.
This involved lots of complicated arguments, deep concentration, with what could be described as random stabs at the keyboard.
A bit like watching Rodney Trotter really....
R
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