To GTBill The time!!! It has taken and is taking ages to learn it and the hassle of finding out what doesn't work and seeing if that can be fixed. Some can I discovered as with the HP printer- but after extensive checking was informed the only way it could happen was to download driver plus software. Anyway, it worked which is more than I can say for some othe things. Like the much missed FrontPage (for creating website) which doesn't work with 7 and is a crime of major proportions by Bill Gates - who up until now I thought was great for bringing computering to the masses (eg me!) . That upset a lot of us.
One day, when i am near my deathbed no doubt, I will have grasped Windows 7 and maybe will appreciate it. The Search bit is handy - see I found something good. It took me an hour to find where the Send and Receive box in Outlook Express had gone. Found it in a drop dwon tool bar item called SYNC!! Can you believe it. WHY!! Cause it sounds more groovy for the techno wizzes.
Getting fed up with Windows Live Mail,so I tried Mozilla Thunderbird - more time. Only to find huge difficulties creating accounts. It auto find my server as a IMAP instead of a POP server which means can't log on. That sounds technical, I know. Just trying to change it, you can't believe the trouble. Basically you can't change it by any sane method, even via manual change. And that is also data via the forum.
Just wanted to moan to someone.
By the way - I have a feeling that you are around for some time yet - and my feelings are rarely wrong - well never really. So you have time to learn it all!!