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Article #43Helping a friend with their imac: installing software??
From: spodosaurus
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 07:42
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 07:42
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Hi all, I'm trying to help a friend out with their imac. They're a computer newbie, and I'm a mac newbie (I use linux and windows), but I figure it's about time I started learning a bit more than just how to configure mac networking and such. The imac is running OS 8.6 and a lot of webpages are not displaying properly on the old web browsers that are installed. I'm wanting to install Netscape 7.0 and (hopefully) a more recent version of internet explorer for mac (along with outlook express). My questions are: how does one go about installing software on a mac? How do I remove the old software on a mac? Should I even bother removing the old software? If I remove the old software first, will the user's email/address books and bookmarks/favourites be lost when I go to install the new software? TIA, Ari -- spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. To jump to the end of the story, as a result of this I need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/
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