FAO Dave Barton
Thankyou so much for the advice I have tried so many times with microsoft
and without success, I am very impressed it's a shame there aren't more
people that are that willing to help.
Thank you again
Carol Wonfor
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From: "Dave Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] Install Writer Only
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Lewis wrote:
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 06:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Thankyou for that information and do you think a lap top has enough
> memory for it? is it a big program? after having to send it back
> for a new hard drive when I don't use it a lot I am so afraid of
> messing it up. Also will the spell checker work with outlook
> express? as I don't know how to get Outlook.
>
> Thank you for your patience.
> Carol Wonfor
If your computer is only a few months old, it should have enough
memory. However, you did not say how much RAM (memory) your laptop
has. On Windows XP Home, OOo will run on 256 MB of RAM, but 512 MB
would be better.
As far an email client, Mozilla's Thunderbird seems to work quite
well on Windows XP and it has its own spellchecker. It possibly has
other abilities that OE does not. Howver, if you want to stick with
OE, there are very inexpensive programs available on the Internet
which will work as an OE spellchecker.
Thunderbird is available at www.mozilla.org, and it is a free
download.
Dan
By coincidence I upgraded an 8 year old laptop for a for a friend
yesterday. This laptop has a Pentiumm III 600MHz CPU, 256Mb RAM and a
10Gb HDD, running Windows XP Home. In addition to other software, I
installed OOo 2.1 with Java JRE and Mozilla Thunderbird (replacement for
Outlook Express). After installing all this software there is still 6Gb
of free space left on the HDD and OOo runs very smoothly.
I am sure the specification for your laptop will be at least as good, if
not better, than my friend's laptop, so you can be confident that OOo
will not cause any problems for your computer.
I would strongly support Dan's recommendation to install and use
Thunderbird as an alternative to Outlook Express.
I hope this helps to allay some of your concerns.
Dave
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