So much for that...

[mdlbear]

The Y.D.'s laptop is now properly set up with Firefox and OpenOffice.org. BTW, you'll want to download OOo from a mirror -- the main site is down to a crawl. You have to scroll down to find the mirror, and then go browsing around the mirror to find the right image. Bad web-page design.

She can take it from here, except maybe for figuring out how to change her workgroup name. I couldn't figure it out, either; it would probably take an hour or so of trying various control-panel icons to find whichever non-obvious one it's now kept under. I'll ask $EMPLOYER's IT guy in the morning, if I remember. And at some point we'll want to copy files; the simplest way is probably to pull the drive and mount it in a USB enclosure, although booting up Linux and sharing it with Samba is a possibility as well.

Needless to say, I haven't gotten much else done this evening.

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[asavitzk.livejournal.com]

What OS is it running?

[mdlbear]

Windows XP Home SP2 -- Dell is one of the few vendors that will still pre-install it.

[hellloooonurse.livejournal.com]

It's the "System" control panel. Select "Computer Name," then click "Change" then click "OK." If memory serves, after renaming, you'll need to reboot the system.

[asavitzk.livejournal.com]

Ah. Yup, that's why my company is still ordering Dells. :)

Hellloooonurse is right but you can also just right-click on My Computer, then click the Computer Name tab and click Change.

[mdlbear]

Found it. Thanks -- I'd been on that tab, but didn't notice the workgroup name.

[mdlbear]

Found it. Thanks -- I'd been on that tab, but didn't notice the workgroup name. And I was looking at "my computer", too. Grumble.

[mdlbear]

Memory serves: you do have to rename. Stupid Windows!