trubleshooting a laptop

[Douglas Pollard]

On 03/27/2013 10:39 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 03/27/2013 07:12 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
>> I wrote:
>>> make sure she brings her Office installation CD or DVD with her as
>>> you'll need it to reinstall.
>>
>> On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 16:28 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>>> I think she told me the shop who worked on her computer did not give
>>> her a Windows CD.
>>
>> As per my previous email, she won't need a _Windows_ CD.  Wine does not
>> use any Windows system software.
>>
>> She will need a _Microsoft Office_ CD or DVD if she wants to run Office
>> on Linux.
>
>
> I'm running the latest Wine from the ppa, all the fixes and patches,
> and it still bombs. One helluva project though and my hat is off to
> them. But, it has always seemed to me to be slower when it runs at all
> with certain MS packages. If the software "calls home" trouble lies
> ahead. Again, it is one helluva undertaking to mimic Windows. My hat
> is off to them for the success they have managed to achieve.  Ric
>
>
> Ric I  think her laptop is running entirely using her hard drive and
> not memeory. When it loads a program or data it sets there and runs
> and runs,  Sometimes it finally shuts down after grinding away for
> awhile.  I don't remeber much about windows but there must be a way to
> see how much memery is in use.  I hope I will start to remeber how to
> do some things once I get into it. If Ubuntu runs well, I hope to get
> her working in Ubuntu.  I have xp on my machine but I only use it to
> run the video program MuVEE  now and then.  When she bought the
> machine it had Xp on it but it was really slow. She had a guy look at
> it and I think he added a memory card but am not sure. She has been
> struggling with it for about a year now. I don't know if the guy knew
> wat he was doing or not. I can't do worse I suspect.   I doubt I will
> use wine that is likely more than I know how to do.  I may try to get
> a GNU program working for her.
    I would really like to get her using Ubuntu as I can likely help her
some with it.  I suspect she would be comfortable with unity. We will
see this weekend.   I likely will be coming back for help.
                                                  Doug

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