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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (79642)	12/15/2003 7:39:44 PM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

I so don't know what you're talking about. I've now backed up everything important, and have lined up Dave, a very nice guy who posted his name and credentials in the supermarket to come and upgrade me to Windows XP, and somehow to save the emails in my Outlook Express, if doing that is possible. If it's not, I can't bear it. I'm also counting on Dave to save my millions of bookmarks. But I can't do anything more about the computer situation until mid-Jan, because we're going to Seattle for Christmas, for two weeks, and you know how it is getting organized to go away, and then catching up when you get back. So now I never turn off the computer, and never reboot it (you can't, in fact; it freezes if you do) and never open a Word document. If I either try to reboot or open any Word document, the computer freezes, and you can't escape and restart it with ctrl alt del despite the message on the blue screen; you have to do that scary sparky thing of pressing the button on the tower, which can't be right. I have a fear that it's a hardware and not a software problem, but I guess Dave will know.