Le Sigh

[silverwerecat]

The laptop saga continues

Comments

[silverwerecat]

Thanks. I really miss my old PC, but there's no room for it here...

[ladyithildiel]

Yay on the new laptop!:D Though yup,lol, tech support and stores are the worst on Saturday-I avoid them so much, you don't know!:P

[silverwerecat]

Well, if they had bothered to contact me earlier, I'd be able to avoid them too. Hopefully things will be better tomorrow morning.

[xanthalanari]

Oh no! Hopefully the new one will work better, but Windows 8 is a pain. If you want the desktop to look more like a normal computer, install something like Classic Shell which will bring the start menu back. You can also set it up to load the desktop on startup rather than the app screen. I can almost pretend mines a normal computer now!

[silverwerecat]

Oooh, good idea. I'll see if I can do it, once I get it tomorrow.

[lindahoyland]

I use the free Word starter. I've happily written 100s of stories with it.
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/6255-microsoft-office-starter-2010.html

This utilty improves the ghastly Windows 8.
http://www.classicshell.net/

[silverwerecat]

Oooh, thank you!

Alas, Word Starter doesn't work on laptops that came with Windows 8.1. I'm trying to find a way around the conflict, but for now it's back to OpenOffice for me...