I had been using a Hi-Grade laptop which ran on Windows ME, it had been working perfectly all these years until last week it decided to pack up, I have many important accounts files on this HD and these files are not exportable to Microsoft office or similar, they were created using a Mini-Office by Europress software, I used its spread sheet mostly which ends with a file extension .MSS, it did excellent job for making invoices, accounts etc served me well without any problems
Now it seems my mother board has failed, it won't power up and 3 or 4 leds blink and goes off and nothing there after.
I had been given a spare DELL Latitude D600 by a friend for free, which had Windows XP, but problem is I cannot install Mini Office on this as I have mislaid or lost my original disc, but if I simply copy and paste Mini-Office folders and package it does not work as it should, I really need to install Mini-Office.
On the other hand, I thought what if i simply swapp the HD from Hi-Grade to Dell and it might work and I won't have to worry about installing Mini-Office.
I tried this, as soon as booted Dell with HD from hi-Grade, it went through a series of actions requiring clicking on a NEXT button to install drivers for new hardware found by Windows ME,
I kept clicking next and so on and the Dell would then ask for restart to install new drivers, I did this for various devices, finally after about 10 minutes and about half a dozen restarts, Dell booted up nicely in Windows ME, the windows ME screen came on in usual high resolution, but as soon as it goes past this screen when all the DeskTop icons appear, they are big and in very low resolution, I went to control panel to adjust screen resolution, it is running as a PC screen at 16 Colours and 480x 960 pixels, and has no other option to choose 16K or 64K colours but just 16 colours, so I spoke to a friend who said I will need to download video graphics drivers from Dell Computers for running Windows ME on this Latitude D600, i went there but could not find video graphics drivers.
Any ideas what I can do to continue to use Mini-Office in high resolution.
Mini Office still opens well, and all my folders show up exactly as they should and all data is there and i can use the package as it is but now i can only see half the spread sheet instead of the full page and I have to scroll left to right and top to bottom. The window will not shrink or reduce in size to show as a full page, this package does not have magnifier feature.
Appreciate your help and spending fair amount of time reading through my post. Thanks in advance
Now it seems my mother board has failed, it won't power up and 3 or 4 leds blink and goes off and nothing there after.
I had been given a spare DELL Latitude D600 by a friend for free, which had Windows XP, but problem is I cannot install Mini Office on this as I have mislaid or lost my original disc, but if I simply copy and paste Mini-Office folders and package it does not work as it should, I really need to install Mini-Office.
On the other hand, I thought what if i simply swapp the HD from Hi-Grade to Dell and it might work and I won't have to worry about installing Mini-Office.
I tried this, as soon as booted Dell with HD from hi-Grade, it went through a series of actions requiring clicking on a NEXT button to install drivers for new hardware found by Windows ME,
I kept clicking next and so on and the Dell would then ask for restart to install new drivers, I did this for various devices, finally after about 10 minutes and about half a dozen restarts, Dell booted up nicely in Windows ME, the windows ME screen came on in usual high resolution, but as soon as it goes past this screen when all the DeskTop icons appear, they are big and in very low resolution, I went to control panel to adjust screen resolution, it is running as a PC screen at 16 Colours and 480x 960 pixels, and has no other option to choose 16K or 64K colours but just 16 colours, so I spoke to a friend who said I will need to download video graphics drivers from Dell Computers for running Windows ME on this Latitude D600, i went there but could not find video graphics drivers.
Any ideas what I can do to continue to use Mini-Office in high resolution.
Mini Office still opens well, and all my folders show up exactly as they should and all data is there and i can use the package as it is but now i can only see half the spread sheet instead of the full page and I have to scroll left to right and top to bottom. The window will not shrink or reduce in size to show as a full page, this package does not have magnifier feature.
Appreciate your help and spending fair amount of time reading through my post. Thanks in advance
