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Mar. 31st, 2009 12:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ar_wahanI'll go into yesterday's long and complicated backstory later. But the result is I now I have new Gateway CPU still in the box here, and of course it uses Vista, which I have never used. I learned that I could not use my Small Business Office 2000 software with Vista, so I got an upgrade to the 2007 version. I'd been thinking I really should do that anyway.
But I was wondering about Quark Express 4.0. I was forced to purchase it years ago (it was about $700 then) to continue to work for a client. I no longer work for that client, thank the Universe, and do not want to pay for an upgrade. I only use Quark as the volunteer editor/layout person for the town newsletter (now three times a year), and now and then for UU and personal things.
And... the newsletter deadline for submissions is coming up on Friday! Eeep. I never uninstalled Quark 4.0 on the CPU I had before March 2005, and I was thinking if all else failed, I'd have to create the newsletter on it (and it is very slow, has no USB port -- so I'd have to copy anything anyone emailed to me on my laptop or the new computer-still-in-box onto a CD, in order to use it on the pre-2005 Compaq (which I think I purchased in 1999).
I just Googled "Quark Express 4.0 and Vista," and found a forum for Quark users. SOmeone had posted that he/she'd tried installing it on Vista and had received a message that "install was incomplete." Two people wrote in with the same simple fix!
:)
But I was wondering about Quark Express 4.0. I was forced to purchase it years ago (it was about $700 then) to continue to work for a client. I no longer work for that client, thank the Universe, and do not want to pay for an upgrade. I only use Quark as the volunteer editor/layout person for the town newsletter (now three times a year), and now and then for UU and personal things.
And... the newsletter deadline for submissions is coming up on Friday! Eeep. I never uninstalled Quark 4.0 on the CPU I had before March 2005, and I was thinking if all else failed, I'd have to create the newsletter on it (and it is very slow, has no USB port -- so I'd have to copy anything anyone emailed to me on my laptop or the new computer-still-in-box onto a CD, in order to use it on the pre-2005 Compaq (which I think I purchased in 1999).
I just Googled "Quark Express 4.0 and Vista," and found a forum for Quark users. SOmeone had posted that he/she'd tried installing it on Vista and had received a message that "install was incomplete." Two people wrote in with the same simple fix!
:)
