Choosing retailer for mimimum complaints

"charles" wrote in message
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no, you don't need to "downgrade" W7 Pro to XP. You run an XP emulator
from
W7. It works, that's how I have kept my old scanner which has no W7
drivers.

I assume that you are running a virtual machine. If this is the case you
should still need an XP code to validate your XP virtual machine. If it is
not a virtual machine I'd be keen to know how you go about it . I have not
had Win7 long and I have not spent much time playing with it (probably
because is works so well).

I run my old XP computer in a virtual machine inside my Win7 machine. I have
been told that this is not permitted as my Win7 was an upgrade on my XP
installation and as such should cancel out my XP installation. If I wanted
to keep using my XP installation I should have bought the Win7 Full
Installation disk.
However I am not planning to lose sleep over it as my XP VM is very rarely
used.

Andy

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 12:17:26 -0700 (PDT), Ste
wrote:

On 2 July, 14:03, "Man at B&Q" wrote:
On Jul 1, 10:32*pm, Ste wrote:





On 1 July, 21:34, "Woody" wrote:

"john hamilton" wrote in message

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I think this might affect us all at one time or another. *You
want to buy an item like a fridgfreezer or a washing
machine,etc. *To make your cash go as far as possible often the
best price is with one of the big national chains of retailers.

Typing in one or two of the household chains names to google,
linked to the word 'complaints'; invariable brings up a lot of
experiences of people ordering and then having to wait an
unreasonable amount of time because its not in stock.

Another problem is with these big companies is that the various
departments seem to be able to pass around the responsibility
of any problem with impunity on to another department.

Is there a good way of trying to find out, which of the big
chains of shops like: Currys, Dixons, Comet, etc; *are the best
to deal with from the customer satisfaction point of view?

Doesn't it occur to you that there may be a vociforous minority
out that with a bone to pick? Think how many times you have had a
bad experience compared with a goo experience - likely you can't
remember the good ones.....?

If you want to learn about how to run an organisation properly
there is only one to look at - John Lewis.

Actually I do generally keep a track of good experiences. I've used
Ebuyer almost invariably for many years, sometimes paying a small
premium simply because the site is relatively easy to use, the goods
always arrive within the time specified (and often before), and the
one or two problems I've had (in probably 7 or 8 years of using them)
have been resolved without quibble.

That's my experience. I always select the cheapest delivery option and
stuff invariably arrives earlier than they say it will. never had to
return anything.

At first I was wary as there are some supposed horror stories about
eBuyer customer services on the 'net. As always, however, there are
two side to every story, and most complaints forums only present one.

The only two run-ins that I can recall firstly involved the
requirement, many years ago, that you fax them any change of address.
I didn't have a fax machine or convenient access to one, and ended up
having to shut down one account and start up another (at the
suggestion of Ebuyer) - an absurd security policy.

Recently I tried placing an order for my mother, on my account, and
using her card. Apparently you can't use a card that doesn't match the
account holder's name. My mother's never used a computer in her life,
I said, and I don't intend to spend time setting her up an account for
a single purchase. No can do, they said politely - again, an absurd
security policy. So ultimately, I found a way around by using Google
Checkout, which apparently does allow cards with different names, and
used that in conjunction with my existing Ebuyer account.

If I contrast this to Dabs which I used the other day for an item that
Ebuyer didn't have, the item quickly turned out to be faulty (perhaps
not Dabs' fault), but what is more, I ended up being forced to
scrutinise their terms and conditions in the course of returning the
item, something that I don't ever remember having to do with Ebuyer.

My opinion of ebuyer has dropped recently since they refused to delete
an unused account.
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On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:20:28 +0100, Andy wrote:

"charles" wrote in message
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no, you don't need to "downgrade" W7 Pro to XP. You run an XP emulator
from
W7. It works, that's how I have kept my old scanner which has no W7
drivers.

I assume that you are running a virtual machine. If this is the case you
should still need an XP code to validate your XP virtual machine. If it
is not a virtual machine I'd be keen to know how you go about it . I
have not had Win7 long and I have not spent much time playing with it
(probably because is works so well).

If you have Windows 7 Pro, you can download a legal copy of the XP
virtual machine from Microsoft. It is pre-activated and you can just use
it, on that one Windows 7 system.



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"Bob Eager" wrote in message
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On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:20:28 +0100, Andy wrote:

"charles" wrote in message
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no, you don't need to "downgrade" W7 Pro to XP. You run an XP emulator
from
W7. It works, that's how I have kept my old scanner which has no W7
drivers.

I assume that you are running a virtual machine. If this is the case you
should still need an XP code to validate your XP virtual machine. If it
is not a virtual machine I'd be keen to know how you go about it . I
have not had Win7 long and I have not spent much time playing with it
(probably because is works so well).

If you have Windows 7 Pro, you can download a legal copy of the XP
virtual machine from Microsoft. It is pre-activated and you can just use
it, on that one Windows 7 system.

Excellent. I shall do that tonight. Thanks for that.

Andy

In message , Bob Eager
writes

If you have Windows 7 Pro, you can download a legal copy of the XP
virtual machine from Microsoft. It is pre-activated and you can just use
it, on that one Windows 7 system.

Ta, makes mental note for future.



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bof wrote:

In message , Bob Eager
writes

If you have Windows 7 Pro, you can download a legal copy of the XP
virtual machine from Microsoft. It is pre-activated and you can just use
it, on that one Windows 7 system.

Ta, makes mental note for future.

Comprehensive review he
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/rev...ws-xp-mode.ars
take note of the hardware limitations.

"John Rumm" wrote in message
o.uk...

Whether you need to install XP in place of 7 is debatable - although some
corporates will insist on it...

My company still uses XP and a lot of others do. They would have switched to
Vista years ago but the technology testing phase was a nightmare and so they
shelved it.
I suspect that we may move to Win7 with virtual machines for backward
compatibility

Andy

"Andy" wrote in message
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"John Rumm" wrote in message
o.uk...

Whether you need to install XP in place of 7 is debatable - although some
corporates will insist on it...

My company still uses XP and a lot of others do. They would have switched
to Vista years ago but the technology testing phase was a nightmare and so
they shelved it.
I suspect that we may move to Win7 with virtual machines for backward
compatibility

My company also chose to use XP over Win7 for a load of new computers
recently purchased. The problem is that a lot of extremely expensive
simulation software we use is not yet available to run under Win7.

In message , charles
writes
In article ,
John Rumm wrote:
On 03/07/2010 01:01, geoff wrote:
In message , Cynic
writes
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:56:07 +0100, "John Turner"
wrote:

I then went to a small local independent computer shop, who sold me
the same
PC for a fair bit less money and installed a genuine copy of Windows XP
without extra charge.

Sounds very much as if it might be a pirate copy of XP.

I thought that there was always the option to "downgrade"

I think that a vista key is good for XP too

Usually only if you have the Pro version - so Win 7 Professional can be
downgraded to Win XP Pro. Its a slightly cumbersome process mind you
that requires getting a new key from MS first.

no, you don't need to "downgrade" W7 Pro to XP. You run an XP emulator from
W7. It works, that's how I have kept my old scanner which has no W7
drivers.

You can do that with win7 pro but not home, although, stop press, I just
heard elsewhere of someone just ignoring the warnings and installing it
anyway - apparently it works

Else you could install Sun's Virtual box or something

Wow - don't I sound like I have a clue ...


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geoff

Mr. Benn" wrote in message
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My company also chose to use XP over Win7 for a load of new computers
recently purchased. The problem is that a lot of extremely expensive
simulation software we use is not yet available to run under Win7.

I still use DOS software that is simply not available in a windows form.
Thankfully Dosbox runs under Win7.

Andy