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Guest Richard15
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Hi all, I hope this question finds all doing fairly well. I had terrible

time try to install clean copy of Vista Business. I finally wiped my hard

drive clean again and reinstalled Window XP Home edition, which has a weak

crummy fax program. One can only send a cover sheet with no following

pages. I would like to upgrade to XP Professional if it had full true fax

program. Does anyone know if it does?

 

Thanks in advance.

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RICHARD

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Guest Gary S. Terhune
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Re: Up grade to get full true fax program??

 

Home Edition's FAX is the same as that in Pro. If you don't like it, get a

different FAX program. Hell, even if Pro's WAS better, you can get a decent

faxing program for a lot less money than a Pro upgrade!

 

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Gary S. Terhune

MS-MVP Shell/User

http://www.grystmill.com

 

"Richard15" <godislove@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

news:ABBCAAAC-B15C-4A70-84E2-F489275E0275@microsoft.com...

> Hi all, I hope this question finds all doing fairly well. I had terrible

> time try to install clean copy of Vista Business. I finally wiped my hard

> drive clean again and reinstalled Window XP Home edition, which has a weak

> crummy fax program. One can only send a cover sheet with no following

> pages. I would like to upgrade to XP Professional if it had full true

> fax

> program. Does anyone know if it does?

>

> Thanks in advance.

> --

> RICHARD

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Re: Up grade to get full true fax program??

 

"Richard15" <godislove@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

news:ABBCAAAC-B15C-4A70-84E2-F489275E0275@microsoft.com...

> Hi all, I hope this question finds all doing fairly well. I had terrible

> time try to install clean copy of Vista Business. I finally wiped my hard

> drive clean again and reinstalled Window XP Home edition, which has a weak

> crummy fax program. One can only send a cover sheet with no following

> pages. I would like to upgrade to XP Professional if it had full true

> fax

> program. Does anyone know if it does?

>

> Thanks in advance.

> --

> RICHARD

 

Are you by any chance running the fax console instead of choosing "fax" when

you print the document?

Guest Vanguard
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Re: Up grade to get full true fax program??

 

"Richard15" wrote in message

news:ABBCAAAC-B15C-4A70-84E2-F489275E0275@microsoft.com...

> Hi all, I hope this question finds all doing fairly well. I had

> terrible

> time try to install clean copy of Vista Business. I finally wiped

> my hard

> drive clean again and reinstalled Window XP Home edition, which has

> a weak

> crummy fax program. One can only send a cover sheet with no

> following

> pages. I would like to upgrade to XP Professional if it had full

> true fax

> program. Does anyone know if it does?

 

 

The Fax Service prints as many pages as you send to it. Learn to use

the Fax printer (i.e., *print* your document from whatever application

you are using and select to use the Fax printer).

 

If you want better faxing software, you'll have to get it separately

as a 3rd party product. The Fax Service is what you get in WinXP Pro.

Actually, I didn't think it was included in the Home version but maybe

you can installed it separately from the install CD.

Guest Ken Blake
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Re: Up grade to get full true fax program??

 

"Richard15" <godislove@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

news:ABBCAAAC-B15C-4A70-84E2-F489275E0275@microsoft.com...

> Hi all, I hope this question finds all doing fairly well. I had terrible

> time try to install clean copy of Vista Business. I finally wiped my hard

> drive clean again and reinstalled Window XP Home edition, which has a weak

> crummy fax program. One can only send a cover sheet with no following

> pages. I would like to upgrade to XP Professional if it had full true

> fax

> program. Does anyone know if it does?

 

 

I can't answer your question, since I don't fax from my computer. But I'll

point out that you can buy a stand-alone fax machine on sale for much less

than the cost of XP Professional (mine was $20), and I think it's much more

convenient.

 

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Guest Richard15
Posted

RE: Up grade to get full true fax program??

 

Thanks all for responded. There sure is a lot kind folks willing to share

their intellectual property :-). Yes, I know about the send property of

'File' only I would rather not go through a third pary. Seems like society

already knows hoW many sheets of tp I use, no sense giving them anymore...

but then again, I stopped worring once for five minutes but then started

worring to why I wasn't worrying. :-)

It was with Windows 98, that windows fax program I could fax many pages.

And, I think that Office 2000(?) had a good fax program too. Anyway, I nice

Canon Fax Machine... I did pay more than 20 bucks though... could've paid a

so lot more though. Gadgets, hun?

 

RICHARD

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RICHARD

 

 

"Richard15" wrote:

> Hi all, I hope this question finds all doing fairly well. I had terrible

> time try to install clean copy of Vista Business. I finally wiped my hard

> drive clean again and reinstalled Window XP Home edition, which has a weak

> crummy fax program. One can only send a cover sheet with no following

> pages. I would like to upgrade to XP Professional if it had full true fax

> program. Does anyone know if it does?

>

> Thanks in advance.

> --

> RICHARD

Guest smlunatick
Posted

Re: Up grade to get full true fax program??

 

On Aug 21, 11:06 am, Richard15 <godisl...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Thanks all for responded. There sure is a lot kind folks willing to share

> their intellectual property :-). Yes, I know about the send property of

> 'File' only I would rather not go through a third pary. Seems like society

> already knows hoW many sheets of tp I use, no sense giving them anymore...

> but then again, I stopped worring once for five minutes but then started

> worring to why I wasn't worrying. :-)

> It was with Windows 98, that windows fax program I could fax many pages.

> And, I think that Office 2000(?) had a good fax program too. Anyway, I nice

> Canon Fax Machine... I did pay more than 20 bucks though... could've paid a

> so lot more though. Gadgets, hun?

>

> RICHARD

> --

> RICHARD

>

>

>

> "Richard15" wrote:

> > Hi all, I hope this question finds all doing fairly well. I had terrible

> > time try to install clean copy of Vista Business. I finally wiped my hard

> > drive clean again and reinstalled Window XP Home edition, which has a weak

> > crummy fax program. One can only send a cover sheet with no following

> > pages. I would like to upgrade to XP Professional if it had full true fax

> > program. Does anyone know if it does?

>

> > Thanks in advance.

> > --

> > RICHARD- Hide quoted text -

>

> - Show quoted text -

 

Office 2000 had a simplified version of Symantec WinFAX. Symantec has

"retired" (aka: dropped) WinFAX. They are not supporting it anymore.

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Re: Up grade to get full true fax program??

 

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:20:01 -0700, Richard15 wrote:

> Hi all, I hope this question finds all doing fairly well. I had terrible

> time try to install clean copy of Vista Business. I finally wiped my hard

> drive clean again and reinstalled Window XP Home edition, which has a weak

> crummy fax program. One can only send a cover sheet with no following

> pages. I would like to upgrade to XP Professional if it had full true fax

> program. Does anyone know if it does?

>

> Thanks in advance.

 

I use Mighty Fax, have been using it since the days of Windows98. It's an

inexpensive program ($20, I think) that has a fax printer (for faxing word

documents) and a scan to fax for scanning documents with your scanner to

fax. I'm using it with XP Pro right now and they might have a vista

version, but I'm not sure. You can check on

http://www.rkssoftware.com/mightyfax/overview.html.

 

Patty


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