Office suite and Partitioning program questions

[MrMet]

Currently running XP pro 64 and would like to get a inexpensive office suite. Can any of you guys reccomend a decent one. Cant afford MS prices or I would wait for office 07. My other question is about partitioning programs. I have partition magic 8 from a few years back, but havent installed it. Does anyone know if it will work properly on xp 64? If not which version must I buy. I need to expand my C drive soon. Thanks in advance

 

[Sudrien]

On the office suite, you can try http://www.openoffice.org/ - free to install and use, very good MS Word compatibility, not quite as good with the others.

The biggest issue with WinXP-64 is hardware drivers, as I understand it. The processor it runs on should be able to handle your 32-bit programs, esp. if they are not running in WinXP-64- read "use the boot disk that came with partition magic". This is a moot point if you think messing around on a drive with only a C: partition will get you more space.

-Sud.

 

[MrMet]

well i have other partitions, but i would like to increase the size of my C drive/partition. Open to any advice...

 

[Schadenfroh]

You could probably get Microsoft Office 2000 off of ebay for cheap and not have to worry about the previous owner's activation (for there is no activation in 2000). I doubt Partition Magic 8 works in x64 (unless it has a bootdisk that you could make to bypass the OS), but you knew that many things do not work with it when you bought it, eh

 

[will889]

For increasing the partition you could use gparted - and you can even use an Ubuntu Live CD as if you were going to install Ubuntu and when you get the to the 'choose partition space to increase' -- then increase it and just back out of the Ubuntu install, or you can use gparted manually after the Ubuntu Live CD is on the desktop.