The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154657   Message #3643303
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
18-Jul-14 - 10:20 PM
Thread Name: Summer 2014 Exercise the right to declutter!
Subject: RE: Summer 2014 Exercise the right to declutter!
A year ago I installed Microsoft Office 2013 on my laptop. Today it decided that it needed to be authenticated again and wouldn't accept any of the things it was asking for. Nothing would load. I called Microsoft (the branch in India) and had to turn my desktop over to the tech to look around, uninstall, then reinstall my Microsoft Office. She said had to set it up so the computer would log on as a Microsoft device (turn it on, log on with my hotmail password). She wasn't able to set up Outlook (no loss, I don't use it) and managed to kill my connection to my wifi in the process and I killed off the microsoft account and am back to my original logon for that computer, but the software works (I do logon to Word, but that is so it can save to the cloud, and I've been meaning to give that a try.) After research, wifi is back, and homegroup is back. That was four hours pretty much shot to hell.

Now to go cut up veggies for the freezer. I had intended to work on eBay and I sorted New Yorker covers into date order and put them into envelopes while I watched my screen do various things. I'd originally turned on the laptop in order to work at that table and catalog the dates by year for an eBay listing. I'm tired of working in there now so I'll do that later. Or tomorrow.

SRS