No - no laptop - no computers and no work
Posted By: painpatient on 2006-06-10
In Reply to: Best of Luck - ME
I'm just going to leave - and try to relax and work this out. I have no support at home with this, so I am sure it will be at least a day before anyone at home will realize that I am not there. Probably when someone needs me to do something - it will be hey - where's mom - I thought she was just going to the store. My husband has been in the garage today with his brother and another guy since about 9:00 a.m. - and it is hot here. Thanks for everyone's support. The rest of my immediate family is dead or I am sure that they would help me with this. That is why I have to go somewhere on my own, since I don't have any family to help me.
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I am a bit computer dumb, but what would I need with a laptop to work while at the hospital with my
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So you can work completely remote on a laptop and access your home PC with this program
please e-mail me with more info if you can. thx
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You can get 56K modems for 5.00 now. We build our own and each piece of hardware we put in, including the case, are warrantied separately so if something breaks, you aren't fighting companies and having to send back the whole thing. It's much cheaper to do it yourself and really very easy.
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I only buy 1 and put it on 2 of my computers- nm
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In your e-mail program click on tools/accounts/whatever account you need to change/properties/advanced. You will see a button under delivery that says "leave a copy of message on server." Check that off.
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Cheers.
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We can all sit here at our home computers and (sm)
"act professional" (i.e., management's euphemism for "shut up and type faster!"
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http://www.ezwatchstore.com/shop/Use-2-computers-with-one-mouse-keyboard-and-monitor.-pr-16264.html
About the word 2003 do you have your Discs that came with computer, you could load like that, but you might have problems loading with the license agreement.
Can Ii install the CD on both of my computers? nm
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