MaryKaye has more email woes!!

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Now I can't get into at all. Opened this new addy. Just letting

you know.

Thoroughly disgusted is a lot of letters for the thoroughly disgusted

to have to type.

Just reading the post on diabetes. Great stuff Frank. Thanks for the

post. I'm hoping it will help my friend. I know she is " beside

herself " with worry, or she wouldn't have called. Her hubby has been

in the hospital more than out this year.

I did send her several articles from the group pages.

Also know I sent stuff on aspartame to her some time back, but it

could have been overlooked. I had a fit when I realized I hadn't made

her aware!!

Thank you so very much for this wonderful forum.

Hugs,

MaryKaye

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Re MaryKaye's computer problem. Sorry to hear about

your problems. She is not alone, and by the way, after

her message about the Trojan on her computer, I ran my

McAffee virus scan and I had one, too. It was removed.

(McAffee costs about $40/yr. I'm not sure which

program is the best-any ideas?)

 

Here are some tips to think about before you find

yourself needing to bail ship.

Reformat harddrive

She might need to reformat her harddrive. It's not

such a big deal after a few times. You just put the

CDs provided (or you may have to purchase them-call

your computer company) in one by one until everything

is redone. Then you have to reinstall the CDs for your

printer, scanner, and other programs you have added.

Add Ons

Make a list of the add-ons you have before you start.

It might include reinstalling your free Adaware and

Spybot programs to spot spyware, your McAffee Virus

protection software (keep your password handy), your

Copernic search engine, your camera software, etc.

Some of these you reinstall from their website. Others

you have the CD from when you bought it.

 

Backing up files regularly

I'm just glad I have all of my Alternative Medicine

articles and other files backed up monthly on CD. If

you can't save them to CD, save them to diskette. You

can fit approximately 25 articles/diskette.

 

Favorite's List on Computer

Before your reformat your harddrive, save your

favorite's list to diskette. The only way I know how

to do this is to click on each favorite and then cut

and paste it to a Microsoft Word page.

Note on links to news pages: I have learned that these

links expire, so if you have an article of particular

importance you want to save, copy it to Microsoft Word

and save it this way or make a paper copy.

I like to save articles to Word so I can cut and paste

their link to the top of the article. Then I can

click on the article to get back to the original page,

if it is still available.

 

Copernic Search Engine

I love this free search engine because you can save

your search on your harddrive for easy access.

Links to favorite articles need to be saved to

diskette before reformatting your harddrive. Again,

the only way I know how to do this is to click on each

link and then cut and paste its web address to a

Microsoft Word page. I then save this on a diskette.

Later, I can insert the diskette and go straight to

the article by clicking on the link.

 

It's a bit of a nuisance to have to back up favorites

and search links, but think about what you really

don't want to lose before you erase them all.

 

 

I don't know much about computers, but I have learned

it's not so bad to just reformat the harddrive and to

start over as long as you have your files backed up on

CD. I've done it many times.

Hope this provides some food for thought.