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Sunday, March 19, 2017

Megan Surface Pro 3

1. INSTALL FREEWARE
Goto ninite.com.  Choose
7zip, Audacity, Chrome, CutePDF, Firefox, Gimp.

2. Backup google contacts
This is because I've had trouble with the firefox contact sync loosing contacts.

Go to Google Contacts.   Click More and then Export.
Then we have to accept to use the old version.  Slack dogs google.  The company who is making driver-less cars can't move basic features into new versions.


3. OUTLOOK GMAIL
a.  Activate IMAP within Gmail - Done sometime in the past.
b. added the gmail user name and password and that all worked.
BUT Cant compose new email in outlook......
Ahh --->  I need to purchase a licensed copy.  Hmm
Is it in the EQ Office 365 subscription? --> Yes
It looks like the 365 is logged in but this does not it appear mean activated.


4. ACTIVATE OFFICE
1.       Goto your webmail at http://owa.eq.edu.au
2.       Click on Office365 in the top Left
3.       Click on Install Office 2016 (in the top right)

Dismal fail.
Downloaded and ran "Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant for Office 365"
It says "We found a Problem
We failed to installed Offoce 2016 on your machone
So tell me something I don't know or tell me how to fix it.

Phoned Microsoft and got onto  a human "Anket" who used hamachi to remotely access the computer and fix it.  I think in the end the problem was that I should have uninstalled the preinstalled office 365.

More on getting Outlook synced with google
Now one option would be to give up on google but we have android phones.
Another option seems to be "emclient"

5 EMAIL
Trying emclient

6 UTILITIES
Format Factory from pcfreetime.com - Converts music file formats
Harmony Assistant from myriat-online.com - Music authoring like sebelius but far cheaper.

7 PING
http://www.sysprobs.com/enable-ping-reply-and-ftp-traffic-in-windows-10-and-server







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