Lost emails

Thank you, I'll do that. But most of the family now use Facebook. (I just
have it for Friends and Family).
If they don't get a reply to their emails they phone.

I'm going to have to get another program when XP stops getting updates etc,
so the computer man will set it all up.

Before xtra and Yahoo combined, it was so simple to get the spam folder on
xtra.
I never liked Yahoo on its own, whenever I used it the computer used to
freeze.
But I am in a Yahoo group for birds, and that seems to be working all right
now.
New posts come by email to xtra.

 

Geo, you will not *have* to get another program when XP stops getting
updates. XP will not stop working and Trend should continue to support
it. But talk to your computer man.

Most of the issues with XP will have been fixed so there should be few
updates these days. However there may be updates to Internet Explorer
and other programs, but those should not stop when XP stops getting updates.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

I'm going to have to get another program when XP stops getting updates etc,
so the computer man will set it all up.[/QUOTE]

Actually you don't. You can continue to use XP if you want to without the
'updates'.
If it works now, it's likely to continue to work ... and XP is one of MS'
better offerings. Yes, it's old ... but we know that old isn't necessarily
bad ... don't we.

 

Actually you don't. You can continue to use XP if you want to without the
'updates'.
If it works now, it's likely to continue to work ... and XP is one of MS'
better offerings. Yes, it's old ... but we know that old isn't necessarily
bad ... don't we.
[/QUOTE]



Plus having old Hardware with No WIN7/8 support, I have one of those
problems with a $800 HP scanner.

 

Plus having old Hardware with No WIN7/8 support, I have one of those
problems with a $800 HP scanner.
[/QUOTE]

Have you tried Vuescan ?
http://www.hamrick.com/
My old Epson scanner doesn't have win 7 support, but it works with vuescan.

 

I started with Windows ME. Then XP came in, but it was some years before the
computer firm changed it.
What a huge improvement! The computer is about 14 years old.

The updates come in about once a week.I haven't a clue what most of them do.

 

I started with Windows ME. Then XP came in, but it was some years before the
computer firm changed it.
What a huge improvement! The computer is about 14 years old.

The updates come in about once a week.I haven't a clue what most of them do.[/QUOTE]

Really ? First thing I do is to turn auto updates off. I want to decide what
gets 'updated' ... and I sure wouldn't want to leave that choice to MS.

 

Really ? First thing I do is to turn auto updates off. I want to decide what
gets 'updated' ... and I sure wouldn't want to leave that choice to MS.
[/QUOTE]
Do you actually check what each one is for, Bruce?

I used to do that back in the days of Windows 95/98. But I've not done
it for ages. I just accept the lot. These day there is very very rarely
a dud.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

They come in once a month Plus your computer is to OLD to run the latest
Windows.

 

Is that Windows 8? I don't think I want that, it looks very complicated.
Like a mobile phone, we don't have one of those.

Perhaps they will do a Windows 9 that anyone can use.

The update people say what the computer needs. I think I've got enough SP
versions

Something comes in from Microsoft, or I can get it from the Start menu.

Trend Micro has just sent me a disc for 2013. I haven't installed it yet.
I managed to install the last one, and if I get stuck the computer man will
do it.

If the computer is too old, the computer man will add things. He stuck some
more memory in it last time.

 

[/QUOTE]

Kool! An old pice of hardware still delivering the goods. I read a few ng
and many of the posters ahve new hardware, and some do not.

Good on you Bruce. However have you considered, Geo, as a user; vs the enemy
out there?

While Ms Windows is off my shopping list, I have to say that in recent years
she has got somewhat better at helping the average Jane Doe from the attacks
of the nsaty people out there.

So, in my view, Geo; go with the updates. The enemy adpats, and users (OS)
have to also.

Software programmes, like evolution, are never completed.

 

XP should have SP3 installed.

Forget WIN 8 no one likes it..

 

If you want to think of Windows 7 MS has a program to test your PC if
it can work on it..

 

Wise choice, more RAM is always good. Like old people old computers benefit
from more memory ;-)

 

Yes. it's got SP3 now.

The last disc I got from Trend Micro checked the computer to see if I had
got the necessary things.
I suppose this 2013 disc will do the same.
I have to pay again in March 2013. I expect they will let me know.

 

I stick things in Favourites if I think I can't remember them.
Or look up what people tell me here.

 

I've not had an issue in many years. I used to get them all the time.

Cheers,

Cliff