[nfbcs] Netbooks and transfers

[Jim]

Yeah.  I figured.
A guy can dream, right?


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of David Andrews
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 5:33 PM
To: NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Netbooks and transfers

Jim:

The simple answer to your question is don't bother.  It won't 
work.  Windows programs, when they are installed put all kinds of 
things into the registry, register file types etc.  Just copying the 
files won't get Office to work.

|Dave

At 04:00 PM 2/28/2009, you wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>
>
>After a lot of careful research, I decided to purchase a netbook.  I bought
>one of the brand new Acer 1 computers, which seems like a pretty great
>machine, for the money.  My goal is not to replace my fully working and
nice
>laptop.  It is to enhance it and to have a portable machine that is even
>easier to carry around than my laptop.  Upward mobility.
>
>Anyway, this has 160 gigs of memory, along with Windows XP.  I'd like to
>take most of the programs and files from an old Toshiba computer that I
have
>and put them on this Netbook.  My Toshiba has been on its way out for a
good
>year and a half and is mainly used as an internet machine because it's very
>slow and some of the programs don't work well.  .  I don't have a problem
>transferring actual files.  However, there are a few programs on it that I
>would also like to transfer.
>
>The main program is MS Office 2003.  I can not find the CDs for it, and
even
>if I could, I don't have a CD drive on this netbook.  If I were to copy the
>actual folder with the program and put it in the "Programs" folder, would
>that work, and would the program run as it always does?  The copying of the
>folders and programs would be done to a thumb drive which I could then plug
>in to the netbook.  Something tells me that twhat I wat to do is easier
said
>than done.  Am I right?
>
>Mainly, it would be nice to at least have MS word on here for word
>processing.  Anything else is bonus.
>
>I do have good audio on this machine.for its size.  I think it'll be a good
>media machine.
>
>
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Jim
>
>
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>nfbcs mailing list
>nfbcs at nfbnet.org
>http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org
>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
nfbcs:
>http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/dandrews%40visi.com
>
>
>No virus found in this incoming message.
>Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
>Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.5/1977 - Release Date: 
>02/28/09 17:21:00


_______________________________________________
nfbcs mailing list
nfbcs at nfbnet.org
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nfbcs:
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/jp100%40earthlink.net