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  1. Hi David.

    the url is OK, thanks.

    I must say I’ve not had many problems uninstalling norton via add-remove.

    I’ve actually had more problems with printers (brother in particular… they also provide an unintall program).

    If you plug in the printer and then install the drivers, then it won’t work without the uninstall tool.

    I can’t see why printers cant work like usb drives… just plug them in, and you get (at least) some basic printing ability… install drivers from the CD if you want scanner, fax, etc.

    I like ranting and raving about crappy printers 🙂

  2. I like ranting and raving about fax duet line systems.

    I hate setting these up,especially when the
    owners have laptops or modems that can’t
    differenciate between ring tones.

    I

  3. I thought so too, but I recently did one
    that was adsl&fax sharing one number
    and another number for voice calls.

    I checked with Telstra and that was
    the correct arrangement.

    But when you mix in call waiting,
    message bank and eptos! it gets
    messy.

    Especially with dialup modems with
    crappy chipsets that answer everything!

    All you can do is set the fax to be last
    to pickup and hope all the other devices
    recognise a fax tone.

    Very hard to not be called back to
    tweak things though.

  4. Should have mentioned I am talking
    about software faxing eg: winfax,winxp fax
    etc.

    Dedicated hardware fax machines
    make it easier.

    It’s when you send/recieve faxes with dialup
    modems that most issues occur.

  5. Given the cost of calling someone out to fix things, I would have recommended that the customer pay to get a real extra line… (depending on their circumstances).

  6. GOBACK 3-4 NOTHING BUT TROUBLE. WHEN USED WITH WIN98 WAS GREAT, NORTON HAS DESTRYED MY COMPUTER ON 2 OCCASIONS, YOU CANNOT IMAGINE THE PROBLEMS, AND THE LACK OF SUPPORT BY NORTON. AFTER REMOVING NORTON, ADD REMOVE, DELETING, AND REMOVING ALL REGISTRY RE: NORTON AND SYMANTEC, I INSTALLED MACFEE, NO PROBLEMS. I HATE SYMANTEC!!!!!!!!!

  7. I’m guessing that Symantec must have a very profitable deal with the major name-brand PC vendors.

    I reckon it works like this: Symantic give HP, IBM, Dell, Acer, etc a few barrels full of money, in exchange for pre-installing NIS etc onto each PC that they ship.

    The PC vendors can then afford to lower their prices slightly.

    Symantec picks up a lot of annual renewal fees, just 3 months after the PC is sold, from average Joe consumer, who isn’t interested in shopping around for a good deal… NIS looks trustworthy enough, so it gets trusted.

    Whoever (from Symantec) came up with this great scam^H^H^H^Hidea, must have been a pretty smart businessman.
    M