As you may or may not have known, Microsoft is preparing to stop supporting Windows XP in favour of Vista. On Thursday, July 10th, if you have Windows Update installed, any XP computers will be automatically updated from Service Pack 2 to Service Pack 3. There have been a lot of people who have had problems with SP3 screwing up their computers - especially to do with Office, from some of the posts I've been seeing. Do yourselves a favor and back up any important work "just in case". Better to be safe than sorry.
Also, they did an update today (Wednesday July 9th) that caused all our XP computers to be unable to connect to the internet - whatever the update was, it conflicted with the machines that had Zone Alarm installed. Either you have to back out of the update (not easy to do) or you have to change a setting on Zone Alarm - if you know any one who is having problems have them open Zone Alarm, click on "Firewall" on the left, then on the "Main" tab on the right. Set the Internet Zone Security to Medium if it was on High. It's the easiest way of getting back 'out there.'
And apologies to John Zakour and Scott Roberts who create one of my favourite cartoons - Working Daze but it just fit in so perfectly today:
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So I see this and read it to the Tour Manager, who says, "Yep," with such disgust in his voice, I get scared. But nope, we don't run XP. Don't ask what we DO run 'cause that's what I pay him for...
If you can count payment in terms of heartburn...
SHG: Glad to hear it doesn't affect you. If you run with Vista, Ubuntu, Linux or a Mac system, this won't affect you in the least.
OMG!!! I'm a little behind on reading your blog, and this totally explains the glitchiness I've been experiencing this week. *_* Now I know. Thanks Leah and GG!
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