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Now that I know where the tab is, I can see that none of the disc I was unable to use as back up had that tab open. So it must have been that the discs were faulty. But I can’t understand why a unused one would be.
I’ll have to try another new one.

OK, that picture clarifies a lot. When a floppy is inserted in the A drive, the “sliding bit” is facing into the drive. Therefore, I was interpreting that as the top of the disc, and could not see anything to slide open. So when I held the disc what I would call upside down, the slot is on the right.

If this post turns out to have all of Hnady Andy’s post attached, sorry. I just highlighted a key sentence, but it looked to me that it was going to include the whole message.

Hello,
Please see attached photo below:

I marked the Write Protection tab that we are talking about with a red circle.
This tab should be towards the top of the disk to enable Writing to the disk. (The tab in the photo is in this position.)
If this tab is down, then the disk is Write Protected and you will be able to see a small square hole or “window”.

This concept was also used on audio cassette tapes and VHS videos.
There was a tab that you would remove to prevent from accidentally recording over or erasing the data.

Not to nag you some more, but I would also recommend using CDs, DVDs, Hard Drive, or Flash Memory rather than floppies.
CDs are cheap, and if you buy CD-RWs you could reuse them, and they hold 700 MB of data where as a floppy only holds 001.44 MB.
I have not had good luck with USB Flash Drives though, but oddly enough I have no problems with my USB Hard Drives.

If you still prefer to use floppies, I have a bunch of new ones in a case that I could sell you cheap……….let me know……

OK. That is closed on every disc I have. If I slide it to the left, it just slides back. I have never had to make a disc write protected, but
if I did, how is it kept in that osition?

I am not sure what the window is. Is it the small opening at the bottom of the disc, or is it the sliding bit at the top?
I agree that if we are talking about long-term storage, it would be best to use a CD or external drive. But I use
the floppies for active data entry and keeping. And once in awhile I will copy to another disc as backup.
It is so easy to copy usually. And I can’t see why a brand new disc wouldn’t be writable.

I guess that’s what happened. Off late, when I go to shut down, I am given the choice of downloading updates or turning off without doing it. Somedays there have been as many as 5,
even 20 one day. So there are proably more than just windows updates.

It is OK. I went to system restore and all is normal again. I can’t understand how it happpened . It almost looked as
if A newly downloaded Microsoft outlokk had appeared.

These posts have all been helpful. Thanks to all

I am using WinXP .
Re;Rumpole’s reply: I found no yellow!
Re: Ken’s
Searching “sound tab” uncovered nothing.

How do you include excerpts from my original in your replies, as some have done?

Ok, Tony. That did it. Thanks. (It is OE that I have. Now I have to go over to the M Outlook forum and see which is the better program.

By going to that site mentioned in the first reply , I found out how to get an older JSON file, and I have been able to restore the
missing bookmarks. Thanks for the advice.

I recently re-installed Foxit, after some computer repairs had sort of messes up its operation.
I saw that toolbar sitting there and I could not see any links on it and figured it was no help.
I right clicked on it to see if there was a delete command and it just disappeared.

Now I have the googls toolbar restored. But I have a firefox toolbar that appeared somehow, and I don’t need that, but I can’t find a way toe delete it.
there also seems to have appeared one for this web site, which I don’t need, as I have a bookmark for it.

OK. That worked. Thanks.