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Post by tommo III on Dec 4, 2021 22:24:42 GMT
Got this unwelcome message yesterday when trying to update an exisitng file: "Microsoft Word Starter 2010 cannot be opened. Try again or repair the product in Control Panel".
Same message if I tried to open an Excel spreadsheet.
Okay, thought I. Had this back in 2017. Go to Control Panel; Programs; Programs and Features. Find "Starter 2010" in the list. Click and out of the menu Organise/Uninstall/Change, click on Change which opens a window. Then click on Repair and follow some simple prompts from there.
No joy this time, was referred to Microsoft Product Support.
Initiated on-line chat and the cheeky beggers claimed to "have an answer" but required me to pay a fiver for the privilege !
Delved deeper on another website and came across this message: "Microsoft have discontinued Windows 7 Support".
For a conversion to Windows 10 a figure of £199.99 was quoted !
Fortunately I had already provisioned against this by a) investing in another laptop (a cheapo Chinese effort) which has Windows 10 and b) copying most of my files over to it.
But I thought I'd post this in case anyone else has found similar and is scratching their head over it ...
tommo
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 5, 2021 9:03:13 GMT
Windows 11 promises to be a bigger problem as well in that many PC's will be rejected by the upgrade as below spec. (including my expensive beast) as the processor must be recent and compatible.
There is a complicated workaround but i'm waiting to see what develops as I'm not preared to buy a new PC for Microsoft's comvenience or follow a complicated procedure and risk losing the lot. Windows 10 will be supported for a while yet
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Post by tommo III on Dec 5, 2021 17:42:16 GMT
If it's any consolation, Sav (I know that you and KP were on XP and swore by it) Margo's laptop is still going fine on XP and it's that I've always turned to if I needed to print a spreadsheet as my Windows 7 could not get supplied with Drivers to link with my expensive Brother printer: XP could simply override any Microsoft 2010 warning and coercive messages.
I've decided to live without Word and Excel from now on as Google sheets provide me with anything I need to maintain my 3 websites - all for free !
It's like revisiting the early 90's when Word for Windows and XL replaced Lotus 1-2-3 and my oldfangled computer was dragged out of the office with me screaming and kicking, attaching myself to a leg of its stand !  |
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Post by tommo III on Sept 16, 2023 20:21:14 GMT
Fortunately I had already provisioned against this by a) investing in another laptop (a cheapo Chinese effort) which has Windows 10 and b) copying most of my files over to it.
tommo
Well, the cheap chinky effort (Fusion 5), though good while it lasted, gave up the ghost after a mere 18 months. The hinge linking the console with the lid became bowed, and eventually started to foul the components inside, to the point where it would no longer receive a charge. There were other annoyances, like the charging lead having to stay connected (if taken out it was difficult putting it back and lining up the pin) AND the earth pin of the 3 pin plug snapped off, so the plug had to remain in an extension socket on a permanent basis ! So tommo now has another new laptoppammybob - an ASUS Notebook which was considerably marked down by Amazon as 'used' but I think that is because it was rejected by someone unable to install it. It was pristine, and I was on the point of returning it too, when as a last resort I pressed all the function keys, whereupon F9 brought the message up "software upgrade available" - so I went for that and - hey presto - it galvanised into action and "Settings" appeared which had been absent before. It has Windows 11 but the snag - there's always one isn't there ? - has been that all my Word and Excel files became locked after the initial free trial of Microsoft Office 365 expired. I found a complicated way round this, which involved googling Microsoft Office for a free one-at-a time use, but this weekend that has became excruciating as I had a lot of non-bb related stuff to update. THE SOLUTION The fix that I found was to uninstall all the M/S Office 365 Apps and install LIBRE OFFICE in their place. So far (touch wood) everything is now working efficiently. |
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