My girlfriend comes to me with a problem she is having on her windows pc. "I cant log in on this website! And I need this website really badly and blablablabla...". So, I checked the website. Got a popup asking me to log in (.htpassword?) and when logged in, everything worked fine. "Yeah, but on my pc its not working!". So, I take a look on her pc. Apparently, when you use Internet explorer in combination with ASP websites (the old one that has the extension ASP) it will try to log in... Using your pc credentials. So, whatever I tried, it always tried to log in as user "HOME-PC\username", Which caused the website to create a nice "403 Not authorised" error. However, this didnt happen on Chrome, where you get a simple "please log in" popup. Unfortunately, I cannot remove Internet Explorer.
Hour later, she asked me if I could install word, because she got problems with openoffice when opening files from school. Facepalm moment 2: Microsoft doesnt like "standards", nor does it like "different language packs". Since my girlfriend has windows in turkish, and my past experiences with Microsoft, I knew already that I had to go to a turkish website to get Word because else I could get compatibility problems (her pc is in Turkish, and I live in Holland), and probably needed to be in Turkey too to activate the licence. I gave up, installed LibreOffice, and told her that the teachers should send her PDF files instead because her pc cant understand Word files written in English (because her pc is turkish). I am hoping I can get my hands on that pc for enough time that I can install linux on there...