Re: tech support: Theres Lots of Tech Help, Yes, on the Internet
- From: mg <mgkelson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:44:26 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 26, 10:29 am, Jim10...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:16:47 -0800 (PST), mg <mgkel...@xxxxxxxxx>.. . .
wrote:
On Dec 25, 12:42 pm, aw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (arthur wouk) wrote:
i usually just use google and a clear statement of my problem. however,
there is a lot of past history and it is likely that one's problem has
been encountered before.
sometimes, unfortunately, it has not yet been resolved.
That's what I've always done and usually I'm able to solve the
problem, but not always. It does require a certain amount of practice
in knowing how to phrase the search words and tenacity to try
different phrases in your search.
Just the other day, for example, I was building a computer for a
friend and ran into this weird problem with Microsoft Office 2007.
Everything about the computer seemed to be working fine, but MS Word
would load very sloooow. When you clicked on the program it would take
7 to 15 seconds for the program to come up.
What the hell could possibly cause that!? As it turns out Word 2007
goes out on your home network and tries to initialize the printer.
That has to be one of the dumber things Microsoft has done. They
either ought to wait to initialize the printer when the user wants to
print something. Or, they ought to initialize the printer after word
has been loaded and isn't busy.
Can you change the configuration? Office can be a beast between
different applications. I've never been able to get Outlook, not
Outlook Express, to work on last two computers. I am sure it was some
simple issue. But too damn difficult to resolve after loads of
searching thru help groups and such. The last place I've found for
help was MS.
I've been using Outlook exclusively since about 1995 and whenever I
get a new computer I simply transfer all my email to the new computer.
To configure Outlook, the first thing you have to do is make sure your
ISP supports POP mail. A lot of them don't. I, personally, wouldn't
have an ISP that doesn't support POP mail. If your ISP does support
POP mail, they will undoubtedly have instructions on their web site on
how to configure Outlook.
I don't use Earthlink, but just as an example, you can read their
instructions here:
http://kb.earthlink.net/case.asp?article=4355
As another example, my ISP (XMission) has their instructions here:
http://wiki.xmission.com/index.php/XMission_Email:Outlook_2007
One needs to follow the directions closely, but more than likely the
only difference between different internet service providers is what
you type into the incoming and outgoing mail server boxes. For
Xmission, it's "mail.xmission.com", for example.
.
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