Not that new… several years old, as a matter of fact. I probably should have wiped it and reinstalled, but hey…at this point, it’s too late. J
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ACT VS. MS SQL Is this a newish computer? A Dell? Dell computers have Windows Live Esentials, IIRC on them, which uses SQL server. Since I wipe all computers before deploying, I don't have this problem. On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:14 AM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> wrote: AAARRRRGGGHHH‼ One of my users has ACT! 2008 on his laptop and it suddenly stopped working the other day and said that it needed a valid serial number to run. Now that we have the serial number from the original install media (this is about the third or fourth time we’ve had to “activate” ACT! 2008) it’s complaining that it can’t activate because MS SQL server is installed on that laptop. Well, hell, why did that suddenly become a problem? AFAIK, they’ve been peacefully co-existing for the past couple years and NOW it’s a problem??? To top it off, the user didn’t understand the instructions I gave him to “go to add / remove programs and uninstall MS SQL Server.” Although who knows what THAT will break! L I’m thinking we’re going to have to either buy an updated copy of ACT! or switch to something like SugarCRM (which I think would be better as the whole company can use it!) John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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