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Lloyd Wayne Reece <Lloyd@reece.net> wrote in
news:3C334AC0.7C6370B@reece.net: 

> Thanks for the respect I was just trying to answer some questions you
> all had. I have had the internal training and I held the CD in my hands
> long enough to take it home and look thru it.  Yes the conversion can
> be done manually but I would not say that it could be done by the
> average user!  The average user now days just wants to click on
> something and go!  

This is something many people here don't understand.  Those of us who prefer 
to manage our own computers and handle our own settings are a SMALL 
minority.  The vast majority of users think a DHCP server is a waiter at the 
Department of Housing and Consumer Products cafeteria and get all confused 
when you ask them to do complex things like "right click".

> I understand a lot of High Speed Internet users are
> more knowledgeable (your assumptions are not most users) than that and
> I am happy for them but believe me their is a whole chunk of 
> subscribers that readly and freely admit they know nothing about this
> computer and just want their internet back!!  I hear it everyday.

I got an email from a woman in my church who is also an @home user last week 
who said that she no longer had web access.  She also copied a half-dozen 
other church members (also @home users)  From her description it was clear 
she just didn't know how to do anything without that "excite@home" start 
page.  I replied to her and the other people she sent the letter to and 
explained how to get to the new cox.net site and make it her default page.  
I got FOUR responses thanking me for the help becuse none of the four could 
figure it out and all thought that they had lost web access after the Excite 
portal closed down.  These are NOT stupid people . . .  every one of them 
has a college degree . . .  they just aren't computer people.
 
> No doubt the CD can be hacked.  But I was told that at some point in
> the next 2 months you will have to load the CD and register your
> computer with COX.  If you can accomplish that without installing the
> software great!! 

Once again, I think you can do it at 
http://support.cox.net/migration/jsp/migrate.jsp

> I am not sure you can because the software is going
> to send all the necessary info to COX directly.  Like I said before
> their is nothing saying you can't uninstall the software 5 minutes
> after the regestriation process has been done! 

My problem as a power user is that ISP software also tends to do little 
things to network settings that can be painful to reestablish, and I am one 
of those folks who insists on knowing exactly what changes are being made to 
my machine.  If it turns out that the CD is a requirement I'll throw a spare 
hard drive in my machine, do a defalut installation of Windows on it, then 
put my real drive back in.

Thanks for the info though.

Ribbitt.