Hi, I don't know where the problem is, but Microsoft for a fee, can take over your computer online and maybe fix it. I think the fee was $39.00, after I had to call back several times, etc. they reversed the fee. gateway computers use to be able to do that too, I don't know about now, but might get another GW nextime. Maria ----- Original Message ----- From: "rbbtfarm" <rbbtfarm@wavecable.com> To: <germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [G-P-L] computer literacy and education comment > Okay Ladies and Gentlemen, sign me up..... I have a degree in art ed., but > computers boggle my mind. Personally, if I don't have someone standing > there > walking me through every move, with great patience, while I take notes > doing > something I am doing, not some hypothetical process, you might as well be > talking to an infant. Preschoolers are smarter. Then through repetition > while referring to MY notes, not some book, for dummies or otherwise, I > learn to do it. My husband gets exasperated at me, but he isn't art > oriented > either. He troubleshoots and repairs multi-level computer circuit boards > through a high power microscope for the gov. Oh, and by the way, I am a > lousy speller. > > Another example, our dau. and our SIL. He is an attorney, passed the board > second time, which is excellant. He is profoundly deaf and the adjustment > for his disability was not made available the first time. In spite of > that, > he failed by a very thin margin. Our dau. only went to law school. > However, > her BA grades, LSAT (SAT for law school) and her grades while in law > school > were only slightly better than his. They preferred different areas of law, > his is HR and hers was contract law, so even without a law degree, > sometimes > she can enlighten him on the nuances. > > My point on operating computers or any other ability has nothing to do > with > intelligence or effort and completely to do with your personal learning > process and interests. Everyone has a brain wired just for themselves and > we > have to use what we have in the most productive ways.......... > > I don't want to know how a computer works !!!! I just want to know which > key do I hit when, to make the fricken thing do what I want it to do when > I > want it to do it. > > Oh and I suppose.... what to do when I hit the wrong key and it does > something weird I can't correct........but that is another issue ...... > Tricia M. > > ________________________________________ > > From: <Jasskirv@aol.com> > >> In a message dated 11/15/2006 1:52:37 PM US Mountain Standard Time, >> cheinric@tca.net writes: >> >> If the new modem doesn't help, I guess I am going to be forced to call >> tech support. ( I hate to do that. I want a person right there to show >> me-and fix it if I don't know what they are talking about! I hate to >> talk >> on the phone, especially about something I don't know what I am talking >> about-or what the other person is saying!) > > >> Ah, Cecelia, what is it about us that hates to use the telephone? I have >> written more letters in the 8 or so years since I learned how to use the >> computer than in the previous 69 (give or take a few for learning to read >> and >> write.) This is one of the things I object to when I see videos telling >> me how to >> do something. I need to see it written down step by step. My husband was >> in >> large frame computers for 30 years before retiring. Even he has >> difficulty >> following instructions over the telephone. >> >> Joan in Scottsdale, AZ whose HOHMEISTER ancestors were from Dens, >> Kurhessen >> (now Hesse) and WEISENBORN ancestors from Herleshausen in what is now >> Thuringia. Haven't been able to trace the FRICKE ancestors, yet. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message