Mavis Beacon 16

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Summary: Excellent program
Review: I learned to type using this software also typing in spanish
buenisimo....very good.

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Summary: Too bad I'll never know how great it is.
Review: I looked forward to plunging in and getting my typing up to speed. The program sounded great! After I purchased the software and pulled half my hair out looking for a solution in the documentation and online I finally resorted to a long wait on hold to get to a tech. According to him, this program won't work on a wide aspect ratio screen! Now after all that exhaustive searching, one would think that a tid-bit like that might show up somewhere. As these screens are becominig very common, I suggested that information like that should be included somewhere. For the time being it is a closely held secret.

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Summary: Nice program that DOES work the XP SP2
Review: I read all of the reviews about this program and I had concerns that it would not work with my operating system (XP SP2); however I took a chance and I have NO problems with this software and my operating system as previous reviews have noted. The installation was quick and without complications.

I learned typing in high school and for the last 15 years of my professional career I have typed using the wrong fingers and looking at my hands and I finally decided to be more effecient in my career I needed to REALLY learn to type. My 1st test with this software and not looking at my fingers, etc. I typed 10 WPM (ugh!). After using the software for about 2 hours I now type 45 WPM with 95% accuracy. I am quite impressed with this software and I would recommend to others.

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Summary: Great SW with a big technical problem for XP SP2
Review: This is an excellent program. My daughter uses it at school and loves it. However, when I installed it on her laptop (she has a limited user account under Windows XP Service Pack 2.), I received an error message "Could not create file for system settings." I went to the Broderbund website and found a technical note (ID: 39783)for this problem. The instructions work for XP prior to SP2, but they are completely useless under SP2. As a result, my daughter completes a set of lessons and, instead of moving on to the next lesson, the programs throws her back anywhere from 5 to 15 lessons. This has been sufficiently discouraging that she has given up on the program. The Broderbund site has no facility to send a question or inform them of a problem. I'm hoping someone from Borderbund will see this review and post a fix to their website. Without a fix for this problem, I'm stuck and this program unfortunately becomes a waste of time and money.