Re: Mouseovers not working ... or are they?

Update to my last message: The ZIPfile is uploading MUCH faster than I had
expected -- 40% complete in 8 minutes -- so it'll be available MUCH sooner
than expected, maybe 20 minutes after the timestamp of me previous message.

Kehvan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Kear" <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>
To: <librarian(at)shadolibrary.org>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2001 23:35
Subject: Re: Mouseovers not working ... or are they?


>
>
>
> >From: Dandello <librarian(at)shadolibrary.org>
> >Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
> >
> >Your browsers are broken - download the newest  MSIE  ... [snip]
>
> This is very interesting ... you CANT download any version of MSIE from
the
> MS site.  You can only download the setup  program.  Which looks at my
> system and says I have it already installed and won't do anything.
>
> I already have IE5.5 SP1 installed - that's the broken version.  I can't
> load it again from the Win98 CD because the setup program there says I
have
> a newer version so it just closes.
>
> I can't reinstall the upgrade I got from the MS site for IE5.5sp1 because
it
> says it's already installed.
>
> I can't uninstall IE from the Control Panel add/remove programs, because
> it's not listed there.  IE is fundamental to the operating system (refer
US
> Dept Justice for more details) so there's no uninstall permitted.
>
> So .... I can't reinstall, can't upgrade,  can't re-upgrade, can't
uninstall
> ... looks like I'm not going to use IE any more huh.
>
>
> Oh, and I called MS to ask them how to fix it.  All they're interested in
is
> asking me how I'm going to pay the $42 to ask my question to someone who
> might possibly know the answer.  Here I am,  a MS Sales partner.  Every
> other company I deal with helps the people who sell its products, not
> Microsoft.  They charge me for answering a question that ought to be
> unnecessary but they have stopped issuing documentation.     I'm writing
> this as I hang on the phone after giving my credit card details.  I've
been
> waiting now for 32 minutes while listening to the computer message telling
> me how wonderful it's going to be if they ever get to talk to me, but how
> they're talking to other people MUCH more important than me.  I'm going to
> send them an invoice for the time I've been waiting unable to do anything
> ... lost productive time for me.
>
> God Bless Microsoft - cos no one else is going to
>
> Cheers
> Mike Kear
> Windsor, NSW, Australia
> AFP Webworks.
>
>
>
>
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