From: "Gary Britt" 

.  Its true that those users who don't use anything special or unique
don't need anything a totally locked down computer can't provide.  Hadn't
thought of it that way.

I have batch files and macro express macros and other programs that I am so
used to using to automate so many small things about what and how I work as
a lawyer that I find it very frustrating to use a computer that isn't set
up for me.  Many of my macros, batch files and certain programs I use have
histories extending back 5 to 15 years.

The Northgate Keyboard I'm typing this on is from 1989 or 1990.  I still
use every day the 1987 dos version of Tornado Notes, Sidekick 98 for my
PIM, the 1987 dos version of timeslips for time and billing, a 2.5 megabyte
Normal.dot file for Word 2K with many hotkeys set to the combinations my
fingers learned in the 1980's for MS Word For Dos 5.0.  I use macro express
to provide hotkeys and mini-features that are similar across many of my
regularly used applications and operating systems.

I'm just too old and set in my ways I guess, and I type fast enough that
things I can do with one keypress on my Northgate keyboard in combination
with my macros, etc. really piss me off if on another machine I have to
start clicking file-print preview, etc.


Gary

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> Gary,
>
> You are light years ahead of my users, they can't even load paper into a
> printer without help. Bringing in a computer from home and actually
> plugging
> it in is way beyond them.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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>> This attitude (which is perfectly understandable from the point of view
>> of
>> the propeller head department) is why whenever I have been forced by
>> circumstances into such an environment have TWO computers.  MY computer
> the
>> one I do all my work on at the office that is setup the way *I* want and
>> with the programs *I* use, and the company computer which I use as
>> absolutely little as possible.  Usually just email, internet, and group
>> scheduling on the company computer (if possible not even that).
>>
>> Gary
>
>
>

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