[LUG] Win7 [was: Re: lug meet]

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Rob Beard wrote:

> On 02/04/11 14:48, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, zleap@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > Hi have now arrived at the lug meet in paignton
> >
> > apologies. i don't think I'll make it. currenty at in-laws in totnes
> > setting up their shiney new win7 pc.
> >
> > although it's only crahed once so-far, and windows live email is so
> > horrible it's unspeakable. it's only rebooted about 10 times so far.
>
> Ahh Windows Live E-Mail, the new name for Outlook Express :-D

Well - I spent the whole day with FiL getting his PC setup. The biggest 
hassle I had was copy the stuff from his old one to the new one. He had an 
external USB connected drive - great I thought, so I exported his Outlook 
express and other stuff to a folder on it, plugged it into the new PC and 
started to copy - whereupon it stalled - several times - And once, 
explorer crashed completely, and I got a black screen (the new BSOD?) It 
stayed like that after a reboot - I did an F8 thing at the next reboot and 
selected repair which seemed to fix it.

However the copy stalled again.

I started to suspect a faulty drive, so did the copy to my laptop - which 
was slow due to it only having USB1 ports. FTPd the data to the Win PC and 
it stalled again - I *think* it's to do with folders (oh, sorry, 
Libraries) having the same name as system ones - so it's not actually 
doing a true copy, it's looking for folders (e.g. system folders) and 
trying to be "clever" (FSVO clever), and put things into the right (wrong) 
place.

And it just looks ugly too.

Took me ages to work out how to change the workgroup too, so MiL's Laptop 
could see it (as it controls their shared printer)

But then again... These are the sort of tales I'm hearing about people 
migrating/upgrading "modern" Linux installations too.

I don't think it's right at all.

As for Live E-Mail - it's just wrong. Too many options/buttons and other 
stuff. At least when I activated Outlook 2010 for him (Yes, he want for 
that too), I got it to save in ODF format. No-doubt his peers will now 
whinge that he's sending in the wrong format, but at least it might save 
the rest of us from docx format...

Gordon

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