Windows Useless Address book WAB

Eerrrrrmmmmm are you having a bad day with your computer Del?

A little furry friend mentioned something about transferring files and settings - has it ever worked??

Mrs Cat is happy enough now. We eventually clicked the ..

'Address book isn't your default V card viewer... do you want to make the default viewer' box.

The real answer is.
'No I don't want to change the default I just want you to use the sodding appropriate program to open the bloody file as it is obviously possible!'...

But there wasn't a box for that .

It is like saying ..
'You are having soup...do you want your default cutlery to be a soup spoon?'

No I just want a spoon for the soup...I'm quite happy with my knife and fork usually.

Still I'm at home and it's raining so sod all else to do...I can't get out in the garden or on the golf course..
I've got some Brownie points by getting Mrs Cat's 'office' wired up to the internet.

Del

Uh................ah thot ah heard a putty tat

Uh dunno if will help but try right clk the file then tell it what to open with in the case it has a small and easily confusion ethic.

Never, ever rely on MS file types when sending files to other computers. Export the original file as a comma-separated text file. Then you can read it back in to what ever program you want to use. This also works with documents- save as plain ASCII text files- if you don't mind losing the pictures, tables, and other such pretties...

Ah yes, one of Billy's own files and it says:Doesn't recognize file type. I HATE that.

But, I keep buying his junk software. :(

For one simple reason. We don't want to be boxed in a market where only ten percent of the computer population are.

I recently had data responsive to an open records request from government here in Atlanta provided to me, e-mail files, in an Outlook format that neither I, nor a friend with the latest Outlook software could open.

Had to make them go back and provide it as an ASCII file.

When you need software there is a huge library available for Microsoft users. That is why we stay with it.

But you all know that.

j.

That's really strange, isn't it. Apples are so good, so great, so grand, that only 10% of the users use them. How funny.

And the only reason they have those people using them was because (and probably still does) gives millions of $$$ worth of them to schools.

Yep, the business world pretty well runs on MS-DOS for PC's and terminals. How many Apple servers are there? I don't remember seeing any.

It's been a while but about five six years ago a friend was having a similar problem with uncle bills' software on a intra net. Don't know if it will still work but I fix the "I don't recognize my own type of files system" by using Linux's Apache server to mediate and at that time it fixed a lot of Mr. bill's I can't talk to other copies of my self because I'm prophylactic issues.

Sorry to busy debugging my syntax to vista interface to be of any help (intuitive? I'd return to NT if I could get a little support/compatibility). NT to Vista is a big change.

I think my house intra net will be penguin powered.

Brad

Vista is a big change

Yes it is a fresh breathe of air indeed. Since I have no point of reference of your complaints. But I'm very curious about somethings, I too have a love/hate relationship with MS mostly due ambiguous posturing in XP. I do enjoy apples and they revive you much better than coffee but penguins are way over dressed.

I used XP for many years. Best platform MS ever produced. Got a new computer. It had Vista installed. I begged my wife to install XP over it (it is HER computer). She vowed to plug along with the NEW IMPROVED platform. I've been listening to her complain for a year. Should have done the over-install myself.

GOOD LUCK.

Bought a new HP last December (07) and already had a full, sealed copy of XP Pro here, since I could't order it (the computer) off Costco's website with XP on it... only the JUNK Vista.

Messed around on it a month or so and said:"Today is the day." (for XP)

It is set up in RAID 0 so I just bought a new 500GB HDD and then the troubles started. Messed with that for a month and finally figured out that they were NOT lying when they said "don't try to go back to XP on 'this' machine."

It's like they have something changed for the video (trying to find video drivers for XP to run this 30" Dell monitor was NOT available for the video card {an 8600 w/512MB of ram] that came in the machine) and maybe some other hardware on it had/has been jinked for Vista.

I gave up, wasn't into buying this new, that new, etc to make the thing work with XP Pro.

What a piece of garbage Vista is. But what do I do with a $2,200.00 box (I can use the 30" monitor on a different box I suppose by buying a different video card. Then it would be:

$2,200.00 box

$1,300.00 monitor

$120.00 500GB HDD

$130.00 XP Pro

$200.00 for a new video card

$ MILLIONS of dollars worth of frustration

Maybe later this year I will decide to spend the extra $200 and get a video card that will have drivers for XP Pro for a 30" monitor.

BECAUSE I HATE VISTA.

But am going to be forced to go to it ... someday. :(

In the mean time I have 4 other computers here, 2 notebooks and 2 boxes that DO have XP on them to use.

Vista handles filenames and extensions weird, just like all the rest of the stuff it does. Gotta find me a WAB file and see how it handles it.

Are we having fun yet?

Ken