Evan: I appreciate all the help and support I'm getting from you and Neil. I'm beginning to wonder whether restoring IE8 is worth the grief! I'm...
Neil: Yes, I uninstalled it as best I could. The MS program reckoned it couldn't be uninstalled, but I went into Task Manager and removed it. The...
Unfortunately, Evan, installing a new copy of the program didn't help. It hangs up at the point where I would expect it to call up the home page,...
Evan: Even Microsoft Fixit, accessed through the link you gave above, didn't solve the problem. Most annoying is the inability to close the...
Yes, I know I'm still working in the digital dark ages, but, right now, I can't afford a new computer. My present box is so marginal in the "Can...
Is your telephone on a VOIP network? Many fax systems will only work on an analog land-line. My elderly Lexmark all-in-one printer faxed things...
I'm still running IE8 on my XP machine, my alternate browser is Google Chrome. IE8 has started, apparently, logging me off my home page every...
I use Comcast as my ISP and have land-line phone and cable TV in their bundle also. A couple of years ago, they offered a replacement modem, which...
Bill: I get my e-mails through "web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/mail? ". My old XP box is ethernet connected to the modem. DW's iPad is wireless....
I'm not sure which sub-forum this belongs in, so be patient. My wife wiped out her Win XP netbook a while ago and has since been gifted with an...
I tried several of the ideas that were entered in response to my original post on this topic, without success. Since my wife got an iPad, she has...
I'mgoing to retire my old Lexmark X5650 printer and take my eMachines tower (XP) off the internet. I plan to use it for photo editing and Quicken....
I've decided to keep my XP tower system, but to use it only for photo editing and printing and for Quicken, It will NOT be connected to the...
Thanks for the info, Paul. I think I'll go looking for a second-hand Office 2007 or 2010. I assume Microsoft no longer sells those programs. Many...
As I said in another thread, I'm now planning to keep my XP desktop, but not for on-line use. It will become my photography and Quicken machine...
I came across a Lenovo at Amazon for $420. It was in an advertising header on this website. It has speed and capacity very similar to the Toshiba...
I'm thinking of keeping the old clunker just to use for photography processing, completely off the internet. It's well supported, with a 300GB C:...
Thanks for the warning on Office with the Toshiba from Costco. The impression was given on the Costco website that it was regular Office 2013 Home...
The opposite happened with us. DW gave her ASUS netbook an unexpectd shower in Pino Grigio while it was pwered up. Grosser spitz-und-sparken und...
To follow up on my earlier post, I'm seriously considering switching to a lap-top, so that I still have a Microsoft capability when we're...
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