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Yes, but she already has the WOW, so telling her to change is disrespecting her independence and denigrating her ability to choose on her own. She made this decision (I’m assuming, of course, that AARP did not show up at her door and force the WOW on her), and that’s more important than getting the “right” or “best” computer. It’s not a choice I would necessarily chose either, but it’s not all THAT bad a product and it does cover all the security issues that people worry about (and should worry about), which is valuable.

Typically, 90 year olds only need to do some pretty simple things on a computer. Finding a “command line” is not one of them. Reading and sending emails, possible Facebook, maybe some photos, a letter to a Congressional representative — that’s about it. So something like what she has most likely meets HER needs, even though it is frustrating for you.

Don’t get me wrong — I know you have her best interests at heart. But truly, she doesn’t need an alternative at this stage in her life.

If your Mother chose the WOW computer for herself, then your best choice is to support what she did and just get her a simple new HP Inkjet.

I’m a 75 year old computer tutor who works with seniors, and no matter how smart and capable you own 90 year old is, people at that age simply do not learn computers easily. I’ve worked with hugely intelligent people (even IBMers) who just find it harder than they would have even 5 years before. And you’re not going to be there to help her 24/7.

But there’s another thing here to consider. When you override the decisions of an elder by telling them that you know what’s better for them than they do, then you are disrespecting them. Being 90 isn’t easy. Everyone is always telling you how to live your life, what to eat, whether to drive, where to live, how to get around. So any decision that they get to make for themselves is an important piece of self-respect.

She bought a WOW for herself. That’s huge. It will let her communicate with the world. Just cheer her on!

PrimoPDF also features “PrimoPDF-DropFiles” as a desktop icon. Drag any closed file icon over and plop it on the DropFiles icon and a fully executed .pdf file will appear. Couldn’t be easier!

Perfect! Thanks!

Those are outline levels. Either the sheet has subtotals applied, or the sheet is grouped and outlined. Clicking on each of the numbers will reveal (or hide) different levels of data.

Clicking the (1) generally only shows grand totals, the (2) would show category-level subtotals, and so on.

Here is some additional information on outlining.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’m not at all sure I can find my husband’s XP disc and code.

I’ve tried the Ctrl+F11 option, but it doesn’t respond. Computer simply boots as normal. I did manage to get online, however, using a Safe Boot with Networking, and I downloaded Eraser. Eraser starts to Install, but gets hung up on an Installing .NET Framework step. Thanks for the suggestions though.

Thanks. Saving as an alternate file type worked. I kept thinking I was missing something, but “corrupt file” works for me.

Ingenious suggestion. Thanks! But most baffling, isn’t it?!!

Thanks. I’ll give it a go.

Thanks. I cleared the print queue jobs using the C: Windows path after stoping the print spooler service. That worked fine, but it is not necessarily the kind of simple solution I like to give to newbies. The software I was looking for presumably did the same thing, but with a click on a desktop icon. Since I can’t seem to find it, maybe it no longer is available.

Thanks for the link.

Thanks. That’s exactly what we did, so I guess we’ll just wait for a while for a new version. I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something!!

I’m trying to launch from the program icons. I’ve checked the properties of the chrome icon, and it points to chrome.exe. So I’m stumped. Thanks for any ideas.