FINALLY!

By: KitchenWitchCooks Mood: happy Date: 08/06/2008 14:35:12 Music: Monk on TV

As most of you know - I had a lot of computer problems with my old "roach" and I finally got a new computer.

Well - to begin with - I HATE shopping for computers.  Half the time you can't get the answers you want or the answers you get seem to be too easy/simple to believe.

This is the time of the year where they put many computers and laptops on sale because of back-to-school.

Best Buy had a nice sale - but after what they did to my roach (which helped it along it's road to doom) I will never go back there.  And I have some choice words for their "geek squad" or whatever they call themselves.

But I did find a nice one at Office Max.

The one thing I did not like about it - VISTA operating system.  The salesman (although they don't pay commissions for the sale of a computer) was very patient, listened to my many, many questions and was smart enough to give me the answers.  Maybe they weren't answers I wanted to hear - but he gave me the proper answers.  Too bad the one I wanted was out of stock and I had to drive over 40 miles to get the last one at another branch.

Of course - I did have questions that I asked Ron - who also steered me in the right direction.

So with a bit of confidence I decided to turn my life over to VISTA and bid a sad farewell to Windows XP.

Oh how I miss my Windows XP!

But slowly - like a fungus - VISTA is growing on me.

One thing I will never like is the new dialer I have to use with Compuserve.  And I really miss the Compuserve toolbar that I no longer get.

But I'll live.

And with this system I am not losing information.  My roach lost a lot.  I lost files, emails, folders, PATIENCE, time - you name it.

So now I am as normal as I can be (yeah - right!) and I hope that I've answered all my PM's and emails to everyone.

If not - drop me a line - things are working again - like they did before my roach got sick.

I now have a bigger screen - more memory than ever - I can watch TV and burn movies - and do so much more.

I've loaded in new software and I think I've got everything transferred from the roach to this one (THANK YOU RON! WITHOUT YOUR ADVICE I WOULD STILL BE DOING IT!)
with the exception of a couple things I cannot get off the roach.

Like my favorites from Compuserve.

But I'm moving forward - hopefully in the right direction.

And I have to admit - it's much less nerve-wracking with the new laptop. 

The roach?  That little contraption worked it's heart of for me - gave me so much.  I should bronze it!  LOL



Oh and by the way - this laptop has letters on the keyboard!  (they were worn off the roach completely!)