"Alan" <alan111@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for that. If this is the same with all Apple programs, should they
> be avoided?

My attitude is only ever have the applications you really need. Nothing
annoys me more than having an untidy system with lots of stuff you never use
on. But then I'm the same in real life - I can't stand stuff just lying
around the room!

Saying that a lot of media on the internet is produced in the .mov format,
so generally you'd need QuickTime (I have it installed). And if you've got
an iPod you need iTunes because Apple have locked them together.

Otherwise Windows Media Player does basically the same thing, which is what
I use for media and for syncing music and video with my Smartphone and my
Creative MP3 player.

> 'It's generally a good idea to download the latest version of any software
> from the net if you've got access, versions on CDs can be very old in some
> cases'

> It never occurred to me (again) that it would be a good idea to do that, I
> will from now on,

The same with a lot of things, even more especially things like graphics
cards, where not having the latest drivers can cause lots of issues with
newer games. There's usually a minimum of about a month between a product
being manufactured and being in the shop, I work in retail and know of cases
where things like graphics and sound cards have sat on shelves for years
before being sold.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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