Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing Win7

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 06:35:48PM +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I'm just installing Win7 to a machine that already had WinXp working sort-of-fine-ish.  One of 
> the early screens said the process would involve rebooting itself several times and i should 
> ignore it and let it get on with it.  
>
>
> Then it gave me a few choices which i had to click on.  I think i had to fill in something too.  
> (ie so i couldn't just ignore it).  When it rebooted the cd/dvd stayed in the drive.  Should i 
> press "Any" key to get back to the installer or not.  I chose to do so.  Opps, wrong.  Stupid 
> user aren't i?  I should have known that it kept the Cd/Dvd in the drive in order to not use it.  
> Ooops, now it has told me to let it reboot again and ignore it.  Next screen needs me to fill in 
> something.  I begin to see a pattern forming here.  It asks for a user-name and decides i 
> probably want to call the machine the same thing.  The next key seemed a bit sticky.  Suddenly i 
> am passed the passwords screen without having set a password.  No "Back" button.  
>
>
> It's taken half an hour which is not bad.  It's about the same as Ubuntu on the same machine.  
>
>
> First thing to do is to hunt down and change the password, or even delete the non-Admin local 
> user.  2nd is to make the machine part of the domain so all the normal desktop users can use the 
> logins stored on the MS Exchange Server.  The installer did just ask if the machine is part of a 
> company network but i'm not sure why because i have to hunt down all that set-up myself.  It's 
> just put me on a new workgroup called "WORKGROUP" because they have to shout.  
>
>
> When i get to type in a domain it's already guessed i must want the domain to have the same name 
> as my laptop.  Guess i should go around and change all the other machines to that instead of 
> using the existing one.  
>
>
> If i want a different domain name i have to guess it or already know it.  There is no browsing to 
> search for it.  i can't be nearly right and let it give me the rest.  I have to be spot on.  It 
> asks for a user&pass for the domain and then gives a pop-up with a warning triangle to tell me i 
> guessed right.  It asks if i want to use the right guess or try again.  Now it asks if i want to 
> add a domain user to the local machine.  'Obviously' i made a mistake so i cancel and find the 
> mistake i made was clicking the button "Network ID" instead of the button "Change".  Now it does 
> guess the correct domain.  Was that because i typed it in the other box or did it really find 
> out?  Still no browse button so if the guess was wrong i would have to know.  Oh, the "Ok" button 
> is greyed out.  So although the text besides the "Ok" button said i could change the domain this 
> way it doesn't use that way to confirm.  Going back to the "Network ID" button that
>  looked dodgy before i have to type the user&pass and domain name twice in 2 different boxes and 
> domain can only be in capital letters despite the domain name appearing everywhere else in a mix 
> of upper and lower-case.  If i do add a "domain user" at this point then allegedly they have full 
> access to all the files, folders and programs anywhere on the network.  I guess this is the new 
> improved security.  Now i am back at the "System Properties" box and "Apply" is greyed out so is 
> it going to forget what i filled in like it would for changing the Virtual Memory?  
>
>
> Now starts my endless cycle of updates&reboots.  Oh, and i have to install tons of programs 
> rather than being given nice safe 3rd party ones that i could use straight-away or swap out for 
> my preferred ones.  These updates&reboots don't make any effort to update drivers, codecs, 
> libraries or other programs.  It's just about the core OS.  Later i will go to MS.com and find 
> several critical security updates that weren't included in the auto-updates
>
>
> When setting the Virtual Memory it told me there were 2 other hard-drives in this laptop.  Of 
> course using a separate physical hard-drive might be quite a boost to performance if Virtual 
> Memory ever gets used and reduces wear&tear.  Saves the read/write head bouncing between so many 
> different areas of the hard-drive.  Just in time i remember it's talking about separate 
> partitions on the same physical hard-drive.  They just call them hard-drives because they think 
> users are too dumb to understand the difference and need to be saved from all this complexity.  
>
>
>
> I get really hacked off when people tell me this is easier than installing any Gnu&Linux distro.  
> It's as though they had never actually tried either to compare&contrast.  

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