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47382	2002-05-06 06:05:00	Trying to install Office 97 yesterday for a FOAF. C: partition was a bit small for all the stuff that MS insisted on installing in C;, although told to put it in the D: partition. Made enough room on C:, all loaded OK then failed. Can't register COMCAT.DLL in Registry. Could it be that it won't run in W95?. Or is there something else? The lady wanted to register with XTRA. But the CD wants minumum of 16 MB to run its setup programme. She has 8MB. But it had a registered XTRA user before. Giving a password (wrong of course) it dialed up and got through and failed to login. So the damn thing will work. It just can't get contact with XTRA as a *new user* wanting to register,using their programme. What files, set up, will get there? Have Netscape 3.0 and IE3.	Guest (0)
47383	2002-05-06 07:14:00	Graham, On the Office 97 problem, it definitely will work in Windows 95, but it may be kicking up a stink about the available RAM (although that should have been mentioned during setup). It may be worth removing Office altogether and starting again from scratch. The Internet problem - its just the internet install program that needs the 16mb, so you should be able to just try to connect like you've done, and try using register/register as username and password (I'm not sure if Xtra use this, but an ISP I have been with in the past use this to take you to their online registration. It won't let you surf anywhere else while you're connected. Else sign-up over the phone, and get them to give the new password/username over the phone, and enter them into the dial-up networking, and connect that way. HTH Mike.	Guest (0)
47384	2002-05-07 04:49:00	Thanks Mike ... I hate installation Wizards --- it checks for disk space about three times, and we reloaded about 5 times. Then got this Registry error. I used Regedot and searched for the DLL, but it was not previously there. Then I couldn't get her on to Xtra -- does wonders for my guru reputation. But I object to 'install' programmes that need 16MB to run. What are they playing at? Trouble is that she has bought a lemon and it's hard to say so. It's got 8MB and I said she should expand the memory anyway, so I opened the box to check what sort we needed. It's 8MB of 30 pin SIMMs. 4MB 30 pins are scarce. They were so expensive than not many people bought them (the 1MBs were $120 when I bought 2 in 1991). I see you've found out why Linux people recommend external modems. Check out the www.linmodems.org site. They're the ones who do the work on modem cards. The uptodare information will be there.	Guest (0)
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