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Title: Slow, buggy, and on screen advtertising
Review: Bought this program because I had home publishing 99 and liked it a lot. Program takes up almost 3 gigs(!) with full install. If you want, you can do the minimum install (700 megs) and spend your day swapping the 5 cd's. Program is very slow to respond; 5-10 second delays after every click (Pentium 4 3 gig, 250 meg harddrive, gforce4 ti4600 ). Program also crashes quit frequently. But, the most annoying thing is the advertisements for scanners, digital cameras, books, etc that take up the left third of the screen. In addition, there is no way to turn them off. Called Microsoft tech support and was informed that the advertisements are hard-coded into the program. The tech suggested I purchase a bigger monitor (LCD -expensive) or that I disconnect my broadband internet connection (not!). That's when I asked for an RMA number. Sent it back yesterday after 6 hours of frustration.
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