notageek

That didn't work for me, Tom. The message is Vista's way of "protecting me from myself." I've been using computers for years, and I resent the hassle I've had with this new computer. I bought it only because my 11yo XP Home machine had been failing for a year. Luckily it lasted til I got my tax incentive from the govt. so I could afford a new, cheap machine. If I had had the money, I would have had one built so I could have XP on it. I just found out a week ago that my scanner isn't supported. (I only use it occasionally so now I'll just have to do without.)

One of the things I resent, too, is that I have to go through so many "Are you sure?" dialog boxes just to do the simplest things on this computer.

Thanks for the help from a fellow genealogy researcher.

notageek

P.S. I had an HP Pavilion before and bought another one after watching ads for a year til I found one I could afford. Then I found out there's no tech support (except maybe by email), no disks (for example, the HP Help tells me to see the manual for my monitor, but there is no manual for the monitor--only basic PDF manuals for the computer)....