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SnoopBoz
Bought a new Lenovo T61p with Vista Ultimate. Nice. Bought MS Office
Professional Plus from another party. Permit me to curse the name, children,
and mustache of the product manager that actually authorized features that
are in Professional to be removed from Professional Plus. Idiocy. Anyway, I
had to uninstall the trial version of MS Office Pro, then reinstall MS Office
Pro Plus. Apparently, the uninstall did not remove Business Contact Manager,
or the reinstall installed a crippled version of BCM. Anyway, about five
times a day I get a message "Business Contact Manager for Outlook cannot
complete the action or actions". Now, I don't need BCM. Didn't expect it.
But if the gosh darn uninstall leaves it on my computer, or if the gosh darn
install program installs a crippled version, I'd at least like it not to
interfere with me at intervals designed to remind me that Microsoft product
OFTEN have bugs. So I call MS for support, and because BCM is not in my
office license, they want me to pay $50 to have them help me remove it or
make it unobtrusive! Dudes, that's what uninstall is supposed to do, for
free!
Ok, enough ranting. Can anyone help me by telling me if I can completely
remove BCM from my computer, or completely disable it (so that it won't
remind me to "Update Business Contact Manager", or that "BCM cannot complete
the action or actions..." all the time)?
Microsoft is in a business pickle. Their only hope seems to be to make ever
more complex software, with marginal functionality improvements, so that they
have something "new" to sell. Then they refuse to support the resulting
buggy products.
Kind of wish I'd bought that Apple. :-(
Thanks in advance,
Jim
Professional Plus from another party. Permit me to curse the name, children,
and mustache of the product manager that actually authorized features that
are in Professional to be removed from Professional Plus. Idiocy. Anyway, I
had to uninstall the trial version of MS Office Pro, then reinstall MS Office
Pro Plus. Apparently, the uninstall did not remove Business Contact Manager,
or the reinstall installed a crippled version of BCM. Anyway, about five
times a day I get a message "Business Contact Manager for Outlook cannot
complete the action or actions". Now, I don't need BCM. Didn't expect it.
But if the gosh darn uninstall leaves it on my computer, or if the gosh darn
install program installs a crippled version, I'd at least like it not to
interfere with me at intervals designed to remind me that Microsoft product
OFTEN have bugs. So I call MS for support, and because BCM is not in my
office license, they want me to pay $50 to have them help me remove it or
make it unobtrusive! Dudes, that's what uninstall is supposed to do, for
free!
Ok, enough ranting. Can anyone help me by telling me if I can completely
remove BCM from my computer, or completely disable it (so that it won't
remind me to "Update Business Contact Manager", or that "BCM cannot complete
the action or actions..." all the time)?
Microsoft is in a business pickle. Their only hope seems to be to make ever
more complex software, with marginal functionality improvements, so that they
have something "new" to sell. Then they refuse to support the resulting
buggy products.
Kind of wish I'd bought that Apple. :-(
Thanks in advance,
Jim