Fuck Incredimail!
Posted: February 9, 2007, 3:34 am
Stupid POS adware bullshit application my wife uses for email on her PC.
I said "Honey, use Outlook, or Netscape or something standard. If this breaks I won't be able to help you."
Two days after I tell her we should get the laptop she mentions wanting occasionally because her eMachines PC is due for a replacement, two days after she tells me "I'll think about it." her fucking eMachines spews smoke at 5AM, causing her to wake me up in a panic and urge me to "Fix it!".
"It" has apparently blown a power supply, if not something else.
So I get her a sweet Vista Home Premium pre-loaded laptop ($599, decent config). I install all her apps and mount her old HDD in an external drive case so I can recover all her documents.
All but her piece of shit Incredimail. The version of the app she had installed wasn't Vista compliant and crashed upon launching. Upgrading it, you can't see her messages, email accounts, addresses etc. I tried a fresh install over the old version, no dice. I tried a clean install and copying what I believed were the correct data files over, no dice.
In the end I sent her a list of all her email addresses and told her she was welcome to use the new Incredimail (at her own risk) sans her prior settings/archives/address book, but my advice was to use Outlook.
Either that or fix her 5 year old $400 computer herself.
Fuck Incredimail.
I said "Honey, use Outlook, or Netscape or something standard. If this breaks I won't be able to help you."
Two days after I tell her we should get the laptop she mentions wanting occasionally because her eMachines PC is due for a replacement, two days after she tells me "I'll think about it." her fucking eMachines spews smoke at 5AM, causing her to wake me up in a panic and urge me to "Fix it!".
"It" has apparently blown a power supply, if not something else.
So I get her a sweet Vista Home Premium pre-loaded laptop ($599, decent config). I install all her apps and mount her old HDD in an external drive case so I can recover all her documents.
All but her piece of shit Incredimail. The version of the app she had installed wasn't Vista compliant and crashed upon launching. Upgrading it, you can't see her messages, email accounts, addresses etc. I tried a fresh install over the old version, no dice. I tried a clean install and copying what I believed were the correct data files over, no dice.
In the end I sent her a list of all her email addresses and told her she was welcome to use the new Incredimail (at her own risk) sans her prior settings/archives/address book, but my advice was to use Outlook.
Either that or fix her 5 year old $400 computer herself.
Fuck Incredimail.