Re: OT: some questions for our Apple + Parallels Users

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Harry,

Regarding that scan you suggested: is it entirely self-contained, or do you need to be connected to the internet for it to function ?  Does it take a fairly long time to run ?  (Say, on a middling Core-2 Duo, 1 GB. hard drive, 4 megs of RAM -- of which XP will only see 3.2) 

I would be trying that on my next visit . . .  presuming that it would not tie up the machine for hours.  If that was the case, this may have to wait for some more opportune timing.

   Jordan

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From: Harry Binswanger
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: OT: some questions for our Apple + Parallels Users

Certainly OS X vs. Win is endlessly debatable. I agree with Carl that,
unless she's already acclimated to the Apple environment, there's less of a
learning curve in going from XP to Win 7 (probably even to Win 10) than in
going to OS X.

But here's a new thought: why not fix her XP software? If all the ports
have failed (yet work as hardware, proven by your test) there must be some
one point of failure. Some Googling would probably turn up the problem.

In fact, have you tried running:

sfc /scannow

-- that alone could completely solve the port problem (ever the optimist, I
am).

Regards,
Harry

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