Dell Dimensions come in a big box that weighs 25 lbs. Carrying it one block home is a bit much, so I took a $4 taxi ride.
It took me 2.5 hours to save all the information on my old comp, configure the old comp so the LCD monitor would work with it (so I can get rid of the CRT), open the boxes, set up the new computer, set up my internet connection, and download and configure all the necessary software.
Things I still have to do at my leisure:
1. Figure out how to edit the startup list in Windows XP
2. Figure out how to convince Outlook to download messages that are more than one month old.
3. Figure out how to get Outlook to leave the damn messages on the server when it downloads them, and hope to hell I can get them to go back on the server because I download messages automatically but sometimes I want to check my email when not at home! GAH!
4. Failing that, figure out how to transfer emails from the old comp to the new comp.
5. Figure out how to automatically schedule maintenance operations.
But now I'm getting hungry and grumpy, so I'm going to have some food and read my newspapers.
2 comments:
_for editing the XP start-up use Start-> Run(command)-> msconfig [enter] for a tabbed windows dialog box.
_Like 'Bob', Ms-Dos isn't really dead.
Just like Windows 98! Excellent!
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