The Second, Second Best Blog

In last month’s story about my new computer, the task of switching to Windows Mail on Vista from Outlook 2000 on XP remained on my To Do list. It was accomplished in about two hours after taking the suggestion of my friend Terry. As mentioned earlier, there is no one step path between these two. [...]

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Sunday morning was a return to more normal conditions after a week of … you know, not normal. It started with the Sunday paper, followed by some outside tasks, then a departure from routine to get a look at how close the fire had come. Our good friend Terry made his weekly trek to Disneyland, [...]

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A few months ago Patty’s computer, a seven year old Dell 4100, crashed with the dreaded BSOD. When it came back up, there was an ominous warning in the Windows System Event log with this Description: “The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and [...]

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If you have much interest in Windows Vista, you have probably heard of Windows Easy Transfer. Having used it twice now, I can say that it works as advertised. It did the job of copying accounts and settings from my old XP machines to the new Vista computers very nicely. But it does nothing for applications. [...]

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