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As expected, the IT people came in on Friday and fucked up converted my computer to the new Common Coperating Environment. Which means no more chat programs (the "Windows Messenger" icon is still here, but doesn't appear to be working - clicking on the icon produces no results). Not a huge loss, but an annoying one; no more mid-day conversations with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
urban_bohemian or ironmanjt. :-( SMS usage, here we go.
More annoying than that, though, is the lack of control over certain aspects on my desktop. Hello, I don't need to have an MS Powerpoint or MS Access icon on my desktop, I never use the programs, and I want the icons gone! But no, I'm not an administrator, so I have copies there and as separate program icons on the program bar, and I can't delete them (that was one nice improvement in Office XP, which I have at home - the icons appear under a folder and not on the program menu as standalones). Oh, and despite there being settings to "hide" the inactive icons on the lower right next to the time, nothing's being hidden. [edit @ 10:41 - the hide feature appears to be working now] I'm very particular about how I like my desktop to look, and the lack of control, to this control freak, is going to be exceedingly annoying for a few days.
At least I wasn't one of the first people to migrate so they fixed the WordPerfect problems they created with the migration. Long story short, they expected the lawyers in GC, who almost all use WordPerfect and not Word because, well, WP is the superior word processor, especially for lawyers, to use a common copy on the intranet instead of having copies on our desktop. That lasted all of half a day before the General Counsel put her foot down and got it fixed. Hey, not our fault they're trying to foist a crappy product (MS Word) off on us.
urban_bohemian or ironmanjt. :-( SMS usage, here we go. More annoying than that, though, is the lack of control over certain aspects on my desktop. Hello, I don't need to have an MS Powerpoint or MS Access icon on my desktop, I never use the programs, and I want the icons gone! But no, I'm not an administrator, so I have copies there and as separate program icons on the program bar, and I can't delete them (that was one nice improvement in Office XP, which I have at home - the icons appear under a folder and not on the program menu as standalones). Oh, and despite there being settings to "hide" the inactive icons on the lower right next to the time, nothing's being hidden. [edit @ 10:41 - the hide feature appears to be working now] I'm very particular about how I like my desktop to look, and the lack of control, to this control freak, is going to be exceedingly annoying for a few days.
At least I wasn't one of the first people to migrate so they fixed the WordPerfect problems they created with the migration. Long story short, they expected the lawyers in GC, who almost all use WordPerfect and not Word because, well, WP is the superior word processor, especially for lawyers, to use a common copy on the intranet instead of having copies on our desktop. That lasted all of half a day before the General Counsel put her foot down and got it fixed. Hey, not our fault they're trying to foist a crappy product (MS Word) off on us.
