2008-07-28T18:02:35+01:00 Zend_Feed_Writer https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/133 AUGW info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ 2008-07-24T14:25:40+01:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/133#553 Eric Jervis info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Can anyone recommend a decent book on Tiger? By 'decent' I mean one that tells you all you need to know without insulting a chap's intelligence. The author will probably be English. The first problem I had installing Tiger is that it took two hours forty minutes, which is definitely over the top. I think I've cracked this one because when I came back from making a cup of tea it was installing printer drivers for every printer on Earth made during the last twenty years, then went on to install so many languages it made my head spin watching it. These included Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese, which I imagine must be the Chinese equivalent of Pidgin English! I'm guessing that I only need it to know the languages I can actually speak. I suppose that when it offered me the choice between a Basic installation and a Custom installation I should have chosen the Custom; Silly me for thinking that 'basic' meant basic rather than 'exhaustive and time consuming'. Mind you, it still fires up extremely fast compared with OS 9. The problem I had with Norton System Works probably arose from my not reading the instruction book first, which of course serves me right, but it looks so boring. I installed from the OSX icon, pressed 'Update everything now' (which took ages as it's three years old) and then thought that there were bits of Norton on my other (OS 9) hard drive that were not on this one, clicked on another folder that I thought must contain various odds and ends from which I could make a selection, at which point it instantly installed the OS 9 version as well. I can of course sort these problems out by reformatting the drive and starting again, but it's very irritating. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. 2008-07-25T00:59:03+01:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/133#554 Stuart Affleck info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Norton SystemWorks is not compatible with Leopard, I doubt it works with Tiger. In other words, trying to use it is a good way to mess your system up! Remove it pronto. As for the book, how about David Pogue's 'Missing Manual'? Yes, a Yank, but one who knows his stuff and gets his points across well. 2008-07-25T18:49:01+01:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/133#556 Eric Jervis info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Well, well, well! Thank you, Stuart; I've just reinstalled the B***** lot, including SystemWorks, and was about to pose the question 'Why do I get the following message on start-up 'Norton AntiVirus autoprotect could not continue, please reinstall it and restart'. Which was the primary reason for my clean install today. How I wish I'd logged on this morning before I began! Is there an easy foolproof way to uninstall the poxy stuff? re; 'The Missing Manual', I've just skimmed through the same title from the library, but for Jaguar (the latest one they had), and I'm inclined to agree with you, he's much less patronizing than most of them. I'll give him a try. 2008-07-25T20:24:16+01:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/133#557 Eric Jervis info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ I think I've done it. I put the disk back in and pressed the uninstaller. So far, so good. 2008-07-28T18:02:35+01:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/133#563 John Surtees info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ For future reference. If you need an alternative uninstaller, App Zapper is superb.