For what it is worth. I bought my latest computer (my 7th beginning with Tandy Color Computer I) with Win98 (later version) installed in Feb 2002. It worked well with FO9.0 (installed patches) and I upgraded to FO 10.0. It worked great with both. This wasn't a surprise to me since FO has always worked well no matter the platform. Incidentally, not to be brazen about it but during an upgrade, I have never done anything except put the floppy in the tray, go to desk top and close tray and let it load the upgrade by itself. It has always worked perfectly. I installed Norton Suite 2000 and shortly thereafter there were peculiar thing happening to the computer though none of them involved FO. It would not shut down, couldn't get mail etc. I checked with Microsoft and went round and round throughout the various sites/pages looking for upgrades to fix the problem. Finally found Internet Explorer 6.0 which happened to have the latest and greatest Outlook Express on the CD. Only problem was the $106.00 price tag. I went to Wal-Mart and bought Windows SE for Home for $99.95 + 5% sales tax and it of course contains the above goodies. I installed it (it told me it would take about 77 minutes and it did) in my own inimitable style by putting the disk in the tray and closing it. Worked fine. FO 10.0 is fine. Norton is removed except for the virus checker. Iomega Zip drive might be out but I don't really care since I have a 100 meg floppy drive and a CD writer. Bottom line. FO is a great product and I know my only problems are those caused by my own carelessness in installing dupes from gedcoms. I do believe in backups. I backup religously on my c drive and again on computer 5 which is networked to computer 7 but I have never had to install a backup! ( I have 30512 persons in my data base, about 3500 places in the place list (no dupes), thousands of sources/citations (no dupes), thousands of event citations, etc. etc. etc. I wish everyone felt they were in control of the program as much as I do. Cheers, Ron Mitchell ----- Ori.ginal Message ----- From: "Alfred Eller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 11:46 Subject: Re: [FO] Mouse wheel : Wayne's letter made me wonder if those that are having problems have : upgraded to XP or purchased a computer already equipped with it. : : I wouldn't be surprised to learn that anyone who upgraded to XP would : have a problem until they went to the Microsoft web page and downloaded : and installed new mouse drivers. Even computers that came with XP : installed might benefit from new drivers. : : I am using Win 98 too, so I am only thinking with my fingers on the : keyboard. <};-) : : Alfred D. Eller : Some Windows tips for beginners : http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm : : : : P.S. I told a lie earlier, I checked the Family Origins Explorer again. : : >I found someone with enough children : > to see the scroll bar on the right pane and discovered that the wheel : > didn't work there. : : The scroll wheel works in the right hand pane if I click on someone : there so that it knows I am in that pane. : : : ========================== : : : ----- Original Message ----- : From: "Wayne League" <[email protected]> : To: <[email protected]> : Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 11:05 AM : Subject: Re: [FO] Mouse wheel : : : > "David R. Holloway" <[email protected]> wrote: : > : > >The wheel does not seem to work in the FOW (v.10) explorer window.Is : that : > >correct : > : > My mouse wheel works in all three panes of the FO10 explorer window : > whenever the pane is active and there is a scroll bar in the pane. : > But you need to have the mouse pointer in a pane before it will work. : > And, for either of the two right panes you have to click on a line : > there before you can scroll in that pane. : > : > But I'm using Win98 ... I don't know about XP. : > : > Wayne League : > : : : : : : ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== : PLEASE remove as much of the Original Message as possible when replying to a List Posting. Include only that part of the original message important to your reply. : :