George, when you get your site ready I think I shall place a link on my with "Technical Tips" or whatever. So let me know when you have it. And thanks for the very generous compliments on my program, tech support, etc. Much appreciated. Ira At 12:54 AM 3/6/98 -0500, you wrote: >At 09:15 PM 3/5/98 -0800, Peter Lex wrote: > >>GREAT GREAT ABSOLUTELY GREAT >> >>Dear George, >> >>Me for my person I have to thank you for your very intersting and clear >>description of the problem. It was not a computer slang I could > >Peter, thanks for your reply. I have received many replies, all in the same >tone as yours. Because of this, I am going ahead and constructing a web >page on my web site, giving some of this information, and including hints >and tips about installing software programs. > >If any of you out there have any tips to share with the world, be sure to >let me know and I will include them on the web page, giving you due >credit of course. > >I'm not an expert, and learn something new every day about the problems >with Win95, especially with driver conflicts and software programs. Now >if I could only figure out why basic Win95 utilities keep disappearing from >my hard drive! (GRIN) About once a week, I have to reinstall all the sound >files, all the utilities such as WordPad, NotePad, the Sound Volume Control, >etc. Heck, I've even put them in directories different from the default and >made shortcuts to them, and Win95 finds them there and deletes them >also. It's extremely aggravating and no one seems to know why it keeps >happening. I suspect a driver somewhere on my hard-drive, perhaps left >over from Windows 3.11, that is causing the problems. I subscribe to >several daily newsletters that pass along such problems between software >and other drivers, and it is amazing how many such problems there are. > >By the time we get all this figured out with Win95, Win98 will be out and >we will have to start all over again with Microsoft's mistakes. > >SgtGeorge >CFT-WIN List Administrator > ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com