"notageek" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> 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)....
>
>
> --
> notageek
Sorry to hear it, perhaps combining Peter F's advice and trusting
Ancestry might get you there.
BTW, to me what is seen as 'are you sure' is usually best interpreted
as 'is that really you'. 'If you started this' could have better been
expressed as 'if it was you that started this' meaning not something
nasty trying it.
My wife is the researcher, I provide the computing infrastructure :-)
Regards
Tom