MSmackDOWN

MSmackDOWN

The final post in the saga of Cranky’s computer problems.

If you missed the other posts find them here...or not

http://joeh-crankyoldman.blogspot.com/2016/08/norton-bang-zoom-to-moon.html?showComment=1470185496026#c5441289368890878526

I got my new computer and after battling with the Geeks, and fighting with Norton it is now running and protected.  My last step was to download MS-office.  I don’t really need office, I only need Word, but you have to purchase the whole package.

No problem, I have a card with a code that I can use to download Office from the web at no cost, and I have a disc with Office-07 which for some reason was what my last computer used.

I went on line, plugged in the code and was told “I don’t think so!”

Now I remembered why my computer #3 had an 07 version of Office.

I bought Office in 07 for my first computer.  It was downloaded off the disc.  On my second computer I was given access to an on-line download of a newer version of word.  I think this was a “throw-in” with my purchase.  When I bought computer #3 this on-line download did not work.  Apparently the “throw-in” was only good for one time on one machine.  Now I remembered why computer #3 ran my 07 version from the disc.

My new computer does not accept a disc, they have gone the way of a floppy, and the cloud has taken over…at least as far as my new computer is concerned. 

OK, I had to bite the bullet and buy Office once more.

This should have taken about five minutes.

It took about 20 minutes.  I had to set up an account and I kept getting misdirected all over the place.  Finally, I got to the point where they had my money and all I had to do was press “Download.”

I pressed download.

Nothing.

I watched that little bar go three quarters of the way and then stop.  I watched it not move for 10 minutes.  I finally flipped out as I am wont to do and x’d the thing out.  It was at that point that I realized that even though the computer showed I was connected to the internet…I wasn’t.

Start the process over and in ten minutes I had my Word, my Norton, some of my files and a working computer.  Mrs. Cranky wasn’t talking to me, I think I may have surpassed my daily “Jerk” quota for the day…but I was back on-line.

I hate the new version of Word because it is different, but I am slowly learning to find and get what I want.

I only have to slowly recreate the files I lost which will take a lot of cutting and pasting.  Should only take about a month.

That is it, that was my miserable week.  On the plus side, the new computer runs faster than the old one, and the battery life is three times computer #3.  Also my very first computer’s battery was toast and the power cord was shot which is why I replaced it, I found the power cord from computer #3 is compatible to computer #1, so now I have a crappy but working computer to back up my files.

With all my computer problems, I had a comfortable bed, a roof over my head, air conditioning, food, TV and a patient wife all week; lots more than many people in this great world of ours, so I shouldn’t complain…but then I wouldn’t be Cranky would I?