[AccessD] OT: My Friday RANT

What about installing them on your Virtual machine?  Would that work?  You
could then blow them away and reload the VM after testing.

(Thinking laterally again..)

Max



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: 06 March 2009 13:34
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: My Friday RANT

Unfortunately I have several machines that run Server 2003.  No restore
points.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Max Wanadoo wrote:
> Yep, been there so many times....what i do now is a Set a Restore point
> first but i shouldn't have to jump through these loops.
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: 06 March 2009 13:18
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: My Friday RANT
> 
> The one I hate is the "free trial" that doesn't tell you that it will only
> handle 10 records at a 
> time or won't actually FIX the problem found etc. until AFTER you install
> it.  Tell me up front and 
> I won't download.  Tell me after I install and I will IMMEDIATELY
uninstall
> without even touching 
> the software.  Of course now my registry is gunked up with crap from the
> "free" software.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 
> Andy Lacey wrote:
>> Yep, happened to me only last night Max. What looked like free software
> was
>> the usual free trial of limited features. Wish there was a quick way to
>> distinguish the truly free. Anyone got the magic key to this?
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo
>> Sent: 06 March 2009 13:02
>> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>> Subject: [AccessD] OT: My Friday RANT
>>
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Do you, like me, get really irritated when searching for FREE software to
>> find that the search result is cluttered by Commercial Software which
> offers
>> a FREE DOWNLOAD just so they can get the word FREE into the search
> engines!
>> It is really a time waster, grrrrr..
>>
>> My Friday rant.
>>
>> Max
>>
>>
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