Thursday, July 2, 2009

Computer Up and Running

New computer up and running -- couldn't save anything from the old one! They couldn't even get it to come on to TRY to pull from the hard drive.

I spent 30 minutes on the phone with Alltel having them walk me thru downloading my USB AirCard to this new 64 bit computer program that obviously wasn't directly compatible with the older card -- so now I'm on line I'll try to find as much on line to download as I can -- can't find my original CDs! GEEZ!

The Outlook Express mail program was on the computer -- finally got the gmail set up -- took forever to download my gmail to the mail program -- forgot I hadn't gone to GMail to delete the stuff and it doesn't go away until I delete it -- downloaded over 1000 emails!! What a waste! How dumb!

I have found my little programs -- my desktop calendar, the PrintKey and my EMail cleaner program. Just finish downloading adobe acrobat reader and the drivers and program for my printer.

Still can't find my MS Office CD. Until I do, I would like to find some program compatible with MS Office (Word and PowerPoint are about all I use.) I did download a PP viewer so I can look at powerpoints when I get them in email. No sound - just a viewer, but it was free!

I'm going to be more careful about where I put my CDs!!! How can I lose stuff in an RV -- I know all of my download discs are here somewhere but for the life of me cannot find them. When I do, they will ALL go into my computer bag to keep stuff together!

2 comments:

Kathy Heaton said...

I could never remember to back up stuff on my computer so now my files are saved automatically by http://www.carbonite.com/avg/.

Kathy Heaton said...

Helen, look here:

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Bird_Breeder-Hobbyist/links/
Computer_Utilities_001051210073

or just go to:

Microsoft Office Online
(File Converters and Viewers)
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?AssetID=HA010449811033&CTT=6&Origin=EC010963431033

Open Office (view/edit/create MS office documents for free)
http://www.openoffice.org

PowerPoint Viewer (for PowerPoint
97, 2000, and 2002 Users)
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx