Win7 Does it run good

[Vagrant0]

@LHammonds

Thank you for taking the time to pinn all this out for me. It is very usefull, and I can get a little futher in adjusting my pc.

Bad news about Office. I need Excel and Word for my work, and it is not possible anymore to just install the 2, and skip the rest, like we did in old versions.

Actually I have kept Excel 7 and Word 2000 until now, for that reason, but Win7 refused to cooporate with them.

I will also look around for another mail handler.

Thank you. :thanks:

 

 

EDIT:: By examinating my Office DVD a little further, it seems I CAN install Excell & Word separetly.

Sorry, didn´t know, one of the things I just purchased recently for my Win7.

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You might want to look into Open Office, it's an open source platform which offers the same basic things as MS Office without all the problems. And I'm pretty sure that it's been updated to work within the W7 environment as well as work with non-english systems, both things that your 2007 version probably lacks.

[LHammonds]

OpenOffice is one of the apps at PortableApps.com (and one which I have installed at home)

 

OpenOffice can open and save to MS Office files but there are some formatting issues since MS Office file system is undocumented and proprietary (they made it work via trial-n-error but it is not perfect yet).

 

I think OpenOffice is just about to come out with a 64-bit version for Windows (there has been a 64-bit version for quite some time but you had to compile it yourself for other OS's such as Linux). Microsoft Office does not have a 64-bit version but it apparently will have a 64-bit version in Office 2010.

[Balagor]

@Vagrant0

@LHammonds

Thank you both.

I do run Open Office allready, and it is no problem to use for my Word apps.

As for my Excel apps. however,I run several Macros in my apps. I am not yet sure

if this is compatible.

I will try tomorrow. (night in DK now)

[bben46]

TweakGuides has an excellent guide for tweaking Win7 (as well as guides for XP & Vista) The downloaded version is FREE for the standard edition, or US$4.50 for a deluxe version with prettier pictures.

http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

I highly recommend any of the TweakGuides.

[Balagor]

@bben46

Thank you for this link. I have downloaded it.

This TweakGuide seems to have some usefull hints

 

As for OpenOffice I have to stick with Excel And Word, they still support Macro 4.

OpenOffice does not. Only VBA. I know Macro 4 as good as Danish and English,

and are not up to start learning VBA now. :sick:

 

Good thing is that I found seperate Install.exe for each of them, and don´t have

to install entire MSOffice.

 

With the posts/replys so far I´m sure I´ll get good deal of of the issues dealt with

 

Thank you :thanks:

kudos