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- From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Microsoft Installer ate my System
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.152350.27781@lin.foa.se>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 15:23:50 GMT
- References: <29847@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- Organization: FOA, Linkoping, Sweden
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- ngse18@castle.ed.ac.uk (J R Evans) writes:
-
-
- > SetFlameTarget(Microsoft);
- > theFlame = BeginFlame();
-
- >Why do Microsoft believe that because I've bought one of their software
- >items, they can do whatever they like to the system file on my hard disk?
- >[No, buying up a third-rate jumble of assorted I/O routines and passing
- >them off to the world as an operating system is not adequate reason.]
-
- >So what have Microsoft done to annoy me?
-
- >After taking the better part of an hour's worth of disk shuffling and
- >decompaction, I get a message from Gatekeeper to say that MS Word
- >Installer is trying to screw around with the System file, and when I
- >restart, I find that all my network resources are irretrievably
- >damaged! Two hours' worth of repair attempts failed, and I had to
- >come back to a complete reinstall job this morning (which is why I've
- >got the time on my hands now, to be posting messages on Usenet).
-
- I had almost exactly the same problem except that I had removed the virus
- protection. It f***d up my system something fierce, and I had to re-install.
- Then, after installing word that /&%#&/% equation editor wouldn't work.
- Quick call to Major Sh*t and got an obnoxious girl on the line who accused
- me of various misdeeds, and then rounded off with "Yes, we're aware of the
- problem. I'll send you a new eq. editor." Why didn't they send it out in the
- first place?
-
- What's the MS installer doing in the system anyway? Anybody know?
-
- grumpily
-
- --
- Erik Svensson Research Officer
- Guided Weapons Division National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
- Stockholm Sweden
-
- net.address: eriks@fenix.lin.foa.se
-
- "Another casualty of applied meta-physics!" -- Hobbes
-