Days of Rainy Sunshine

So summer is here and we are enjoying warm temperatures and sunshine.

Oh wait,    sh1t,   no we are stuck with days of warmish, humidity and intense rain showers.

Yesterday, for example, I went over to the part of the campus which involves walking across a field (well its quicker than walking all round the roads). It was sunny.

I finished a job installing some software and left the building. Tipping down, absolutely lashing down. So dark you almost need a torch. Unreal, so that was me sat steaming for the rest of the day, as it then brightened up.

Ain't climate change great? Where's the summers gone like 76 or was it 77. Days and days of blazing hot sun and fun. Mind you I was only 5 or 6 but remember my dad getting really badly burnt :)

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Even the professionals get like it

Goddamn fecking thing - why oh why won't you just do what I want and stop annonying me

NO I do not want xyz extra thing with its added information passing scripts sending 'anonymous' data. I just want that file/program whatever.

NO I do not want to send Microsoft an error report

NO I do not want to have to click on a prompt to install something on my own computer using my own acount which is an ADMINISTRATORS account so why do I need another feking click just to do something Grrrrr

but today I had all but given up the hope of ever accomplishing what I intended.

A simple process. Install Office 2007 on my machine so that i can get used to it before we roll it out ot everyone in a couple of months

So I point my lickle mousey over to the file share where office2007 setup lives, happily munching away on bits and bytes and double click setup.

Please wait whilst Setup is configuring. Okay tahts cool.

Then nothing. The window dissappears and there is no clue that anything is happeneing at all.

WTF

Where'd it go? Whats happeneing? Is it doing anything? I like to kno these things.

Hmmm, click setup again and it says only one instance of setup can be running at a time. funny. real funny.

Typically, the phone then rings, someone needs something, several things get opened, mainly left open then pop something somewhere goes bangpop (DCOM event viewer tells me) need a restart, which tho I don't know it yet buggers the install of 2007 because when i restart it says please repair your installation of office 2007.

OK so I click and I choose repair and it fizzes and whizzes, this time with a window tlling me it is doing stuff, which I like, it makes me feel safe and secure that things are happening in the proper way.

Cool and groovy I get to play with Office 2007 and set up outlook and it dosnt even need any input it just opens straight away (well after a few seconds of configuring) and displays all my email, a couple of shared mailboxes and calendars, my data files, global address book th works, magic, lovely great.

Automatic updates finds things for office 2007 which need a restart so i restart and when i do I open outlook and

outlook has turned into outlook2003 and can't open the files that 2007 created. What.................The.......................FECK

The installation of Office 2007 didnt remove 2003 (why should it dimwit?) So when i started outlook it started 2003 and cocked up. So i uninstalled 2007 and then i uninstalled 2003 and then with it all clean I installed 2007 again and the automatic updates came back and it needed a restart and

WHAT THE FECK

Fecking office FECKING 2003 is back FECK FECK FECK FECK

D'Oh

We have a group policy that ensures that all computers do their windows updates from our own server and that also includes the office2003 updates. It was historically used to roll out office 2003 and so whn we build up a new machine w just drag it into that OU and let it do its stuff. Obviously my machine was in that OU so I moved it out of that and it STILL didnt frigging work.

In the end I had to take the machine out of the domain and then back into the domain again for it to work

GRRRRRR - even we have our days :-)

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