Alphagista
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Hi everyone
I bought my first laptop last week after using a desk top for 20 years or more. However please don't think i'm some expert, my learning curve never really got going
The thought of a new computer together with wireless router and wireless printer with a new operating system was nevertheless exciting. What a dissapointment
The first major dissapointment was the lack of literature, everything on line. That's all very well but if your old machine has crahed and you are investing in a new one you are not on line until it works. Fortuneately my wife had insisted on me having assistance (techfriends) at a cost of so much a month and although in my mind I should not need them (being an old hand) I relented.
Thank the Lord I did. Nothing seemed to do what it was supposed to do!
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I found an ikon for a manual for my computer on the desk top but like to read manuals on paper and that meant the printer had to work. The software to install the printer failed miserably . All this time the antivirus seemed very invasive.
A time to reluctantly resort to Techfriends, after a very very lengthy phone call they managed to get the computer to accept the fact that the printer existed. (I hadn't realised at this time that the drivers still hadn't been installed.
Email was my next priority and what a game I had with that. My program of choice is Thunderbird but it it just would not work or it would then it wouldn't. A call again to Techfriends, who dissapointingly said they were aware of 'issues' with windows 7. 64 bit compatability with thunderbird and best not to use it. I naturally asked what they recommended and was astonished to hear them say only gmail had been reliableand that's what they use.
I still had this suspicion (and it was not based on anything except intuition) that the antivirus was at the root of my troubles, (afterall I had been using Thunderbird on 64bit system previousy and had no problems at all)
I took flyer and removed Bullguard replacing it with Avast and lo and behold no further trouble.
This may be valid or not, it's telling it as it is.
You're welcome to comment.
Alphagista
I bought my first laptop last week after using a desk top for 20 years or more. However please don't think i'm some expert, my learning curve never really got going
The thought of a new computer together with wireless router and wireless printer with a new operating system was nevertheless exciting. What a dissapointment
The first major dissapointment was the lack of literature, everything on line. That's all very well but if your old machine has crahed and you are investing in a new one you are not on line until it works. Fortuneately my wife had insisted on me having assistance (techfriends) at a cost of so much a month and although in my mind I should not need them (being an old hand) I relented.
Thank the Lord I did. Nothing seemed to do what it was supposed to do!
.
I found an ikon for a manual for my computer on the desk top but like to read manuals on paper and that meant the printer had to work. The software to install the printer failed miserably . All this time the antivirus seemed very invasive.
A time to reluctantly resort to Techfriends, after a very very lengthy phone call they managed to get the computer to accept the fact that the printer existed. (I hadn't realised at this time that the drivers still hadn't been installed.
Email was my next priority and what a game I had with that. My program of choice is Thunderbird but it it just would not work or it would then it wouldn't. A call again to Techfriends, who dissapointingly said they were aware of 'issues' with windows 7. 64 bit compatability with thunderbird and best not to use it. I naturally asked what they recommended and was astonished to hear them say only gmail had been reliableand that's what they use.
I still had this suspicion (and it was not based on anything except intuition) that the antivirus was at the root of my troubles, (afterall I had been using Thunderbird on 64bit system previousy and had no problems at all)
I took flyer and removed Bullguard replacing it with Avast and lo and behold no further trouble.
This may be valid or not, it's telling it as it is.
You're welcome to comment.
Alphagista