Looks like I fried my computer -- Note back up often!

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Originally Posted by docholly

just forgot that some of the programs i'm so used to having like MS Office, the discs were lost in my move from Seattle to Vegas.

if you haven't taken a look at http://openoffice.org (free) as a replacement for the MS office programs, you might want to take a look. If you need an Access like clone, you have to shell out the $70 for http://staroffice.com/.

I've used openoffice.org for a number of years and have found it to be a good replacement. I only use wordprocessing and spreadsheet functions, but, it opens powerpoint presentations in 'impress', word docs in 'writer', excel spreadsheets in 'calc'. there is a math module for higher-level math and a draw module for drawing. Overall, I've found it to be quite good and almost MS Officelike. there are some things missing and some things that are better, but, overall, its done the job for me. And its free (well, I donated money so it wasn't free for me).

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Speaking of open source, I've been using Abi Word for over a year now instead of MS Word. You'd never know the difference and can save files as .doc so Word users can open them. I just ordered (for free) an installation cd for Ubuntu, a linux OS. Open Office and Gimp come packaged with it. I'm seriously considering dumping WinXP entirely. It has been really pissing me off lately.