Thanks Janice, after only a day or two of Live Mail, I am beginning so see a lot of similarities to Express. There was a "starter' program on the new machine for Word and Excel, but it goes away after a month or two unless you pay them. I had purchased a copy of "Microsoft Office XP Small Business" a few years back and just on a hunch last night, I loaded Word and Excel from that old disc and it worked like a charm. I don't have all the bell and whistles of the newer versions, , but it's much cleaner and easier to use. Since I use it basically for my own records, it's ideal for me. You might want to look at someplace like www.dealnews.com ....They don't actually sell anything, they just put you in touch with the folks who have it for sale and at the very best prices. They are head-quartered here in Huntsville and a friend of mine has a son who works for them. They sometimes have some fantastic bargains on both computers and software at close-out prices..... Harold B -------------------------------------------------- From: "Janice Reed" <jreed47@centurytel.net> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 7:09 AM To: <arizard@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] -Computer Down- Off subject > Morning Harold, > My sympathies. I have just gone through the same thing except I lost > everything on my computer. Fortunately I had all my school work backed up > on jump drives so I didn't lose any of my work. > I don't like the Live Mail as well as I did Outlook and I hate Windows 7. > I > had Windows 2000 XP, and the Office/Student version. The only thing that > saved me is that one of my college classes is Windows 7. I have a > textbook > that I can refer to when I run up against a problem. Our course also > covers > Excell and Power Point. Guess if I am going to keep up with the younger > generation in the job force I will have to learn them all. However, it's > not easy teaching an old dog new tricks. I am blessed to have a good > instructor. > I did switch over to Firefox for my browser. It's a lot faster. I still > have Google as my search engine. > Breakfast time, then back to the books. > Good luck. > Janice Reed > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Harold Blevins" <hrblevins@comcast.net> > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 6:43 PM > To: <arizard@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] -Computer Down- Off subject > >> >> Well, I am back on line after about a two-week vacation, courtesy of my >> computer's >> hard drive ! It suddenly decided it didn't want to boot up so I suspected >> right away >> that it was the hard drive. I am one of those folks who was taught to >> turn >> everything >> off when you finished using it, so if I used my computer six times a day, >> I >> turned it on >> and off six times!!! Guess I just wore the poor thing out....and only 6 >> years old!!!!! >> >> I am very fortunate to live next door to a young computer engineer who >> works >> for a >> large aerospace company here in town. He took the computer, took the >> hard >> drive >> out and downloaded its contents onto a storage disk, then ran a recovery >> disk to try to >> get the disk working again. He was not successful, but he was able to >> save >> all my data. >> >> In the meantime, I purchased a new computer, with much more capability >> than >> the old >> one and at about half the price I paid six years ago!! So much for >> technology......great! >> >> I have spent all day getting all my programs back on the new >> computer...found out quickly >> that Outlook Express will not work with Windows 7!!!!...so went to >> Windows >> Live Mail & >> am learning to use that. Was happy to find that my MS Office XP would >> load >> into Windows >> 7 so that saves me having to buy Office again. >> >> So I am battered and bruised but not broken......(only had 300 emails in >> my >> inbox this a.m. when >> I finally got back in my mailbox, most of them from ARIZARD )......sure >> appreciate you folks and the >> fine work you do and enjoyed reading every one of them......glad to be >> back.......Harold B. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ARIZARD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARIZARD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >