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My question was, how do I determine which version I have?

OK. Thanks for the advice. I do not seem to have any problems that I can blame of Win.XP. My system is very slow, but that may not be blamed in Win XP. For now, I’ll stick with it.

I still didn’t get 2 questions answered.
1. At times, when I go to shut down, I get two choices; click here to download updates, or here to shut down without installing updates. I have always downloaded them, but I don’t know what they are, and if they have anything to do with windows updates, or whether they are for some other software.

2. The updates we were warned about had to do with .net and I do not know what .net is.

My second question was “Then at other times, I get a popup that says updates are ready for your computer; click the icon in the task bar or whatever the bar in the lower right of the screen is called. I don’t know what updates they are, as I have not done that.
So what should one do ? Does everyone get these ?

Back to the June 30 email, it was headed “Say no to .net” I asked whether the updates re Net would come automatically if I have Windows update turned on.

I have CCleaner. I have not used it much, so I am uncertain about some things. I opened it and clicked on analyze and it listed items to be deleted, and it included Spybot, multimedia flash player, and sun java. So I am not sure I would want those programs deleted.

Although I could not find an icon for MO in my 0rogram files, I found it by searching. So then I found that all of the messages I had created using the addressee’s name that appeared in the mail I was trying to answer, or on a web page, were in a drafts folder, and had not been sent . This despite the fact the in MO I had clicked on file , and then the link that looked like it would send the message. Now I want to continue using OE, as all my stored mail in in there, and I want to be able to send mail in OE if I am sending it to addresses not already in my address book. I guess the first thing to try is what was suggested above re setting options.

Further with regard to my original question, I have a portable hard drive , brand name Verbatim, but the software to run it is called bouceback express or something like that.
I have backed up my C drive a few times, but I am not sure whether when I run a backup, if the previouus back up is replaced.
If anyone has any experience with this device and its software, could I add a backup of my flash drive to the Verbatim drive while keeping the C drive backup intact?

I took the advice above and downloaded Spyware blaster.
I indicated It should be saved in Program Files, but each time I clicked on save, it opened a different folder that had nothing to do with programs. Has anyone ever experienced this? Mostly when I download something and open program files and then click save, it works.
I also get frustrated when I download something and the response says “You have chosen to open the download”, but it then gives the only option “to save”. It would be faster if you could install the program without having to save it and then go to the folder to run the installation.

I am now using a flash drive to do what I did on the floppies, and I can edit the files as I was before. Just one thing that will be more hassle;
since the flash drive and my printer both use the same USB port, I can’t print directly from the flash frive.

I could do what I sometimes do with files on a CD i.e minimize the screen so the file or folder can be slid onto the desk top, and the edit it.
Perhaps it would be better to save the opened file to another name and C: drive location, print it, then delete the new copy.

I am amazed that my post led to so many comments and suggestions. Two questions,
Has anyone come up with a cd or dvd system where one can edit files on the cd?

Is there a best, safest way to transfer folders of data files from, say the floppy flash drive to a cd for backup.
I have been sliding them to the desktop and then to the target. I guess there is also the file/send to command.
Or the ghost program described earlier.

As you were. I found the missing folder in a sub folder of My Documents , Genealogy, where it was not intended to be.
However, I wonder why my previous searches had not found it.
My apologies for using up space and the time spent by the responders

Thanks for the advice. How does one go about encrypting the HDD.
I still want to know if it is impossible to edit a file on a CD-RW.

Problem appears solved. I went to a Firefox support forum, and searched for “reading PDF files”, and was amazed how many entries
there were with others having the same problem. It appears to have resulted when they updated to the latest version.
One reply said go to fierfox plug ins folder in program files, , find nppdf32.dll, and delete it, and I did that and it worked.

I am using Firefox 3.6. I tried viewing 2 different web pages that were in PDF format and got the error message that said the adobe acrobat reader that is running
cannot be used to view PDF files online. But I did not have ARR running, (unless it is on all the time; I checked startup and di not see it. So I went to add/remove, and removed AAR,
but I still got the error message. I then found out that I could view PDF files using IE8, which I still have but do not use regularly.
I first thought it had something to do with the TVO web site, but then it happened on the 2nd one.

Perhaps some firefox users could try this and see if it happens to anyone else
http://www.vaxxine.com/torch/newsletter.pdf
I use Foxit to view PDF files, but there appeared to be no way to get to it from the page with the error message.

I just discovered something that might be of help in handling bookmarks. I had set out to houseclean my bookmarks, and I had often bookmarked sites under a heading “study” or “revisit”, and then not looked at them for ages. When I started to do this, I went to bookmarks, clicked on “from Int. Explorer”(because I had exported my bms form IE to Firefox), then the folder “to study”. then the bookmark to see whether to move it or delete it.
Having decided to delete or move, then I clicked bookmarks/organize, and the scanned the resulting list for the bm in question, and hit delete or move .
Ithen thought I had to go back the whole route bookmarks/to study/chosen bookmarks to decide what to do with it.

Then I found out that once I had chosen bm/organize, the list remained open, with the word library on the task bar, so I could continue to delete or move without having to reopen the bookmarks.