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Re: Helping a friend with their imac: installing software??

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From: dale
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 02:09
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On 8/12/04 1:08 AM, in article
1goc9nn.8co8ux17izxq2N%anniebish@optusnet.com.au, "ann bishop"
<anniebish@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> spodosaurus <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> Most things come with an installer,you just  double click on it and it
> will install and usually remove the other version at the same time.
> -- Installing on Mac is much easier then you're Widows experience,my
> printer has 1 page for Mac install and 2 for Windows. ;-)
> 
> 
> annieb
> 
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YES, installing on a Mac is great

No dll files etc

To remove the program, drag to  the trash
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