No one wants their last words to be "Oh my God! The old gypsy woman was right..."
Damn piece of crap MS code . (and no Dougie I won’t get a Mac). I’ve spent hours trying to install XP SP3 and I can’t get it to install. e first time I tried it failed and I think it was because of delays in my firewall requesting permission to let Windows Update install some parts when I was away from my computer. It went through the whole install procedure right up to and part way through final cleanup then told me that the update had failed. Well it didn’t completely fail as I noticed this morning that at least one Windows app - Remote Desktop Client had changed. So I tried again and this time I only got as far as the Windows Update page and as soon as I started the upgrade I get a message stating it can’t be done because I don’t have administrator privileges - wrongo Billo - I do. Anyway I logged of and this time logged in as Administrator - Ha! that ought to do I think. Sadly, no, same result - start the upgrade and get told I don’t have Administrator rights. So obviously a setting has been switched in the registry but I have no idea where. I checked in the control panel and both accounts have Admin rights - can’t figure out how to fix this and MS wants money to assist me. I’m really pissed. To add insult to industry another program I installed last night after all of this screwed with my VOIP softphone for work and it kept exiting with an error every time there was an incoming call grrrrrrr. It’s been uninstalled of course. IO’m not a happy camper today.
Technorati Tags: XP SP3, Windows Update, Windows Update, Administrator rights, registry, I’m really pissed
Ok. (giggle) Sorry, but I saw my OWN NAME in the RSS feed and HAD to answer. What a mess. If -you- can’t fix it, I suspect it can’t BE fixed!! I’ve had experiences like that on a Mac and went to nuke-and-pave to fix it. Condolences!!
M. Douglas Wray 
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11:19 pm 5/15/2008
I haven’t been able to install it properly on my machine either, and I’ve never had that problem before. It says it installed okay but has to restart to finish (normal), but it locks up when it restarts. Tried it three times now, and it’s crashed at 3 different points.
I F*&^%&* Hate Computers
Just skimming, but caught that you won’t get a Mac. I was once that kind of stubborn and I look back now and rue all the time I could have been enjoying my computer time. You’re just ruining things for yourself….
99 - My wife has an iMac and I use it fairly often when helping her figure out how to do things. I can’t stand the interface - drives me crazy. I would be far less productive on a Mac than I am on a PC. Now if only my banking software and a few other programs I use were available on Linux I’d drop XP in a heart beat and switch entirely to Linux
Doug Alder 
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11:15 pm 5/17/2008
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