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You're lucky! Glad you got yours sorted! I've narrowed my issues down to either a kaput video card or a motherboard (port) issue. Unfortunately I have no extra video cards anymore and don't have the extra $$ to buy even a cheapie one. So it'll have to wait.

Me too. I'm trying to get my hands on a video card just to test with because of it's not that, then it probably will be a bit of an XPense...and that'll have to wait.

I'd be using it still as well if the desktop it's on hadn't taken a dump last year. I'll fix it. Eventually. lol I can tell you worked hard on this post, Dennis.

Oh I have a friend that's gone through 3 or 4 laptops. She still won't back up anything. Says it's too much trouble. I tell her she's crazy. And I totally remember those days. I think I reinstalled Win98 about 10 times in the 3 years I had it. I remember updating Java and Win98 not liking that at all. I cried that day.

I was hoping the US would be next in banning it. Then they could issue me a free disk of whatever acceptable version of Windows is left. (Bring back XP!!!! lol)

Thanks. I'll have to tell my brother about that since he's the one needing an email to be recovered. It won't help fix his current issue, but your advice will help safeguard for future issues. Appreciate it!!

I'll be honest. I NEVER used to back up anything. I never had the extra $$$ to buy extra drives for my old computer, and backing up on floppy disks was definitely not going to happen. But after that computer crashed and I lost EVERYTHING, I told myself come hell or high water I was always going to backup my stuff. I ended up making friends with a guy who built computers and he gave me a couple of empty hard drives, so I installed them and used those as backups. Then my brother bought me the portable drive and I moved everything over to that. And good thing too since that system is now kaput (for the time being anyway). I keep nothing on this new laptop so if windows has to be reinstalled or whatever, I don't care. I backup what's necessary (including my tablet and cell phone) and tell others to do so as well. Though some friends are so darn hardheaded about it.

I guess I'm slightly the slacker. All I use is a portable hard drive to backup pics, music, etc. Once I can get my hands on another portable hard drive, I'll back up the first portable drive. lol

That's what I figured. Thanks!

So Gmail says once you click "delete forever", that the email is indeed gone forever. My question is would the email perchance be stored as a file on a hard drive that it could be recovered from?

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Definitely.

The mint ones right? LOL I bet!

This made me giggle. Figured you lot would enjoy it as well.

Ha me too!

Sounds interesting. Don't recall ever seeing an Easter bunny with nuts before. Wait...you know what I meant. haha

You are never too old for pounds of chocolate! Just ask my mom. LOL Sounds like you had a great day! Steak sounds good. I baked a honey and spice ham. Thank goodness for leftovers because it was good and I can't wait to have some more.

Hope everyone had a great day filled with good food and yummy candy! lol

If they could actually find me, that would make for an awkward dining experience.

Not really thrilled about this. They were probably in on the whole Heartbleed thing too.

I have no experience with 7 so I have no idea how it compares. I went from XP right to 8. I don't mind change, but 8 to me is just...awful. XP was easier to navigate and you didn't have have those snap back windows that you mouse over to in the left corner of the screen. You didn't have to "view apps" to get to a program. Shut down, control panel, etc was easier to get to. I just don't like the overall design of 8. My brother has Vista on his computer and said even that's better than my 8. But of course, everyone has their own preferences and they like 8, more power to them. I hate it. lol Ugh. Can I just have XP back? lol

OMG it's about time. I still haven't upgraded to 8.1 but I'll do whatever it takes to have Windows look like Windows is supposed to look because I freaking hate 8.

Another month, another shot of pretty blue water