[AccessD] AHOO!!! Got my action pack

Steven W. Erbach serbach at new.rr.com
Fri Sep 10 08:57:53 CDT 2004


Rocky,

>> DVDs?  How do you install if your machine has no DVD? <<

That is a poser. It seems to me that MS distributes the Universal subscription on CDs, but it must amount to 6 dozen or so CDs. Yikes! I'll bet they charge a premium for that.

There are one or two DVDs that contain ISO images so that you can burn installation CDs for things like Windows XP Professional.

I did notice that when you want to install Visual Studio .NET 2003 that you have to puzzle out what to install and where to find it. The HTML file MS uses for its index on the DVD doesn't start any installation programs; it just opens My Computer with the contents of one of the folders on the DVD. It took me a while to figure out all the steps I had to perform to get VS.NET installed properly.

And there's no free tech support with the Empower program, fwiw.

Steve Erbach





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