Re: re CalcPlus - FREE from Microsoft.

From: David Candy (.)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:46:48 +1100

It doesn't insist.
     
      Validate Windows and obtain the download

     Yes, please validate Windows and take me to the download. (If an ActiveX dialog box appears, please click Yes.)
     
     No, do not validate Windows at this time, but take me to the download.
     

  

Even where it sys you MUST validate (on some downloads) you can always get it. 

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"Yabbadoo" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message news:jM2Md.192$Rs4.142@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
> Colin, it's an XP add-on which insists on installing an XP "legal 
> verification" tool before allowing installation
> Also a follow-up on a previous post (which was in "hardware" group)
> This prog ain't hardware, but "verification" issue surely is basic XP
> Len..
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> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(nojunk)@msn.com> wrote in message 
> news:O4l2U2LCFHA.936@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> What has this to do with XP?  This is a Windows XP newsgroup.
>>
>> -- 
>> Colin Barnhorst [MVP  Windows - Virtual Machine]
>> (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)
>> "Yabbadoo" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message 
>> news:dUULd.585$Uj3.77@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net...
>>> Don't want to be critical, BUT ....
>>> Have downloaded CalcPlus - released Sept 2004 !!
>>> Includes Currency Convertor, European currencies to Euro ???  That's 
>>> already YEARS out of date - "local" European currencies don't exist any 
>>> more, have been obsolete about 5 years, when the Euro became standard 
>>> currency for them all !!
>>> This function has no current usage whatsoever. (Correction - just one - 
>>> for audit/review of  years-old European accounts in fraud or similar 
>>> investigation, to value in "todays" currency). Limited market, I would 
>>> have thought!
>>>
>>> Like the other convertor, though ... but again, there's a blip. Fuel in 
>>> UK is sold by the litre, so it would have been helpful to have had a 
>>> "miles per litre" convertor, too (piece of cake to add).
>>>
>>> Other than that, it's not bad. However, have I a suspicious mind, or was 
>>> this an insidious way to install a validation tool for Bill to peek into 
>>> my pc by the back door ??
>>>
>>> Len
>>>
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