Hi Gil!
Free advice: Buy some flowers for your wife the day you take over the
second bedroom:-) Maybe take her out to dinner and a movie as well.
Regards,
Pete
At 12:03 PM 5/31/03 -0400, you wrote:
>My one client who ran into this problem called this morning to advise the
>EULA display problem went away. He is not certain if it is because the date
>changed, or if it because he did a full shutdown on the PC last night. I
>told him it was Gremlins <g>. So, who knows what is really going on.
>
>I suppose it is time for me to go ahead and build yet another PC and install
>WinXP (from the MSDN Universal package of course) and get familiar with it.
>Just what I need, another PC out here! I am already turning a 2nd bedroom
>into a 2nd computer room so I can move some Servers out of my primary
>computer room/office and take off some significant heat load. Nature hates
>a vacuum, and since the 2nd computer room has lots of space the gods are
>looking to help me find something to do with it! Just a few more PCs and I
>will need to have our electric utility company run a higher capacity feed to
>our home <vbg>.
>
>Gil
>
>
>Gilbert M. Hale
>New Freedom Data Resources
>Pittsford, NY
>585-359-8085
>gil .at. gilhale DOT com
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: profox-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profox-bounces .at. leafe DOT com]On
>> Behalf Of Michael Madigan
>> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:18 PM
>> To: ProFox Email List
>> Subject: Re: [NF] Office XP EULA Screen
>>
>>
>> I have heard that logging in as administrator and answering the
>> EULA will make it "stick".
>>
>> I, however, have the same problem on a client's machine, have
>> tried a million things, and nothing seems to work.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> --- "Gilbert M. Hale" <mrgmhale@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>> > Greetings!
>> >
>> > I have a client who just picked up a Dell PC with Win XP
>> > Business and Office
>> > XP pre-loaded. He went through the Activation processes, but
>> > is getting a
>> > form that pops up every time he open any of the Office XP apps
>> > (Excel,
>> > Outlook, etc.). It is a form that states the EULA, and he has
>> > to “agree” to
>> > it every time to use it. If he has Word open, and opens Excel
>> > (for
>> > instance) it requires another “agree” for him to use Excel.
>> >
>> > I can not believe that even M$ would have the gall to require
>> > an EULA every
>> > time a user wants to use one of the Office XP apps. He insists
>> > he activated
>> > the app. He is very capable with PCs, so I take him at his
>> > word re: the
>> > activation.
>> >
>> > Any ideas? I have not installed Anything XP (even though I
>> > have MSDN
>> > Universal v-7 and it has Everything XP), and I found nothing
>> > specific about
>> > this issue on the M$ Knowledgebase.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> > Gil
>> >
>> >
>> > Gilbert M. Hale
>> > New Freedom Data Resources
>> > Pittsford, NY
>> > 585-359-8085
>> > gil .at. gilhale DOT com
>> >
>> >
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