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Happy Belated Birthday to both of you!!! May you each be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat God bless everyone

Welcome to our favorite boards Ice Wolf. Glad you are here to help us gals even things up with the guys! Yes as Liz said, I am part of the group that has been known to run amuck around here stirring things up, shaking the place up etc, just having a good time with the best family around. I am betting that Marty told you we are a great big family...yep it's true. A bit dysfunctional at times, but a true family. And we are always pleased to welcome new members into our slapstick way of life on board. Glad to see that Mac has been taking care of Honey Bun for me, I've been missing in action quite

I'm back for a while. On 11/13/06, I had a blotched operation for PROSTATE CANCER. Doctor was unable to open me up because of the adhesions, from an Kidney operation in 1984. The current plan is to have RADIATION SEEDS IMPLANTED into it. This will take place in either March or April. Been without a computer from 12/19/06 till 1/9/07. Enough of my problems!!!! I am so sorry to hear it is such a serious problem handplane. Just found the updated part of this thread after supper tonight to see you had mentioned what was going on, had only seen Marty's posting about it last time I was here. I was

That's not a problem, that email is just a notification that someone added you as a friend, nothing more. B Now that email thing is really irritating!!! Thanks handplane for confirming that's what happened. So I just checked my seldom used email and yep there were several added friend emails there too, making a big deal out of such a simple board function thing. Seems like SPAM to me!!! Is there an option to not have such useless stuff sent to our email? It's bad enough to have it clogging up our profile page....so high school!!! Did I mention it seems like SPAM???? Alot of this new stuff see

You are very welcome Liz, glad I could help you find the McAfee forums. Sorry for late reply, seems like we are so busy plus sharing computer and trying to stay within the time alloted by dialup service here...one of these days I'm going to switch outfits!!! Anyhow just bumping this up to see how it went with your upgrading to the new McAfee? I hope it worked out ok for you. Stay safe my friend. Pat God bless everyone

Bad Hair day everyday. Pat God bless everyone

Thanks Jeff, Sorry I'm such a grouch...again...!!! Just didn't expect to have that particular problem. Did some experimenting, after I had another cup of coffee, to see if I could find an easy way to add the people back into my friends list. Found out I can click on their name on the block page to bring up their profile and then below their avatar/egghead/MrPotatoHead picture there is an add to friends list thingy to click on. So got nearly everyone back on friends list except a couple that seem to be but they didn't show up when I went to next person. Maybe I should have waited until page

Hello Marty, Thanks for the warning!!! No wonder my F-Secure suite has been doing so many updates this week. Here is a good link to see what the new threats are from the F-Secure Security people's lab news site. F-Secure Security folks lab news site The best way to avoid this sounds like the usual stuff, don't open attachments as Leo Laporte on Call For Help always said. After all you can always go to legitamite news sources, or do a search for that specific info on Ask or Google etc if you really must learn more about the subject. Stay safe folks, use common sense to protect yourself. Pat Go

I did a test run of the fixes for this, must not have done it right, or I am just more than a little confused??? Have only been onboard for a few minutes and don't like being confused and unhappy with my favorite board instead of my usual peaceful happy feeling of being over here. Sent Liz a PM (with copy below to save time and effort on my part) to test things out but my block/allow list is a bigger mess if it is same list just exchanged blocked to messages allowed on it.!!! I am to nearsighted to easily see what is going on and not a very happy camper at this point, though when I was here ab

I love your idea Mike!!! I am semi left handed depending on task, so have the mouse set up on left of keyboard, (but I'm not lefty enough to switch the settings in Windows 2000 to completely reverse the right/left click thing). And the scroll wheel on my mouse only works on some websites scroll bar...hence needing to crisscross the screen all the time...grrrr!!! Why oh why didn't Microsoft itself give us the option of having scroll bar (for some insane reason when I started learning this computer a few years ago I called it the elevator instead of scroll bar and often still do too) on left si

Hi Liz, As others have said, disconnect from internet while switching. Also do uninstall old before new one of most everything. And the McAfee forums are still around, though may not be anymore help than their previous anemic responces from McAfee support was. My first few tries to them did not work on my favorites link, but last one did so keep trying. McAfee forums I have heard that if you have had a suite, even if as I remember you saying once that you only used part of it, that you should always stay with the suite unless you totally completely uninstall it. Upgrades to a suite supposedly

That is an very unusual looking still Marty. Had a good laugh over it. And loved the musical element....though a redneck would have probably used galvanized washtubs instead. I asked hubby if I should send it to our city water bureau to suggest they consider it as another alternative to their program to have us disconnect downspouts from city sewer or storm drains. At the moment all they want us to do is dig a dry well and reroute the downspout to that. But hubby doesn't think the city would have a sense of humor regarding this.. yeah he is probably right on that!!! But since this town is rapi

U.S. News magazine had an interesting balanced article on MySpace et al a few months ago. The main article plus the related ones via the links, might give some perspective on the issue with enough information for both youngsters and parents to have a good talk about the family rules concerning it's use. Decoding MySpace Pat God bless everyone

I'm glad it turned out to be an nice adventure for you and that you made some new friends Honda Boy. I'm also glad you named the thread as you did, and added some of the same thinking into the thread. Just because it turned out ok this time, and please do still be on the watch each time you meet up with them or anyone else, it doesn't mean it couldn't have been a total disaster of the worst kind being as how the world is nowadays. Be sure to always carry what we gals used to call "mad money" to be used to get away from a situation that gets ugly or uncomfortable. We have had several kids just

Happy Birthday Sceeter!!! May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat God bless everyone

So ok this is what happens when I take off for a few days to many times, and come back this time only to find that Jeff moved the furniture around while I was gone...Hmmm!!! Now I don't need to have a seeing eye dog yet... so should get the hang of things soon... Well so far so good if this posts ok... I hope!!! Pat God bless everyone

Hi Marty, Thanks for the welcome back:-) We enjoyed the trip so much we're going to go on a longer trek this summer into the interior. The trip to the center of our province is a one day train trip, a distance of 725 km, or about 450 miles. That should be fun! Well here is my second try at writing this post, lost the first one into that great black hole of internet space. I wonder if the bits and pieces just float around and careen into each other like so much cosmic dust? And what if some alien beings in a galaxy or two far far away are trying to find out more about us, only they just

I think that is false hope to think it will be harder for someone else to use an unsigned card. You are much safer with a signed card according to the credit card companies. Then if someone signs for something and it doesn't match your signature they can be caught for fraud. Without a signature the card is up for grabs, that is one of the reasons it is so dangerous to have a new one come to your home mail box in case someone removes it from mailbox before you do and authorizes it. Yes the phone authorization is supposed to only work by your phone number, but there are ways to bypass it I've h

Plastic Surgery Pat God bless everyone

Happy Birthday to all three of you!!! May you each be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat God bless everyone

LCD monitor or CRT? If CRT, I have heard they need to be shut off and turned back on periodically to degaus(?) them. Whichever one you have, have you tried shutting it off and leaving it off for awhile then turning it back on? Does the on light, if it has one, show up on keyboard too? Maybe bad cable or bad/loose connection? Pat God bless everyone

Ok folks, what does HOT LINK mean (and is that any different than a regular link?), besides a good Italian, or German, hot sausage? Pat God bless everyone

Happy Birthday to Marsh and Mawood!!! May you each be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat God bless everyone

Just a back to basics question here but you do have the monitor turned on, and plugged into a known good working plug, right? And if so does the monitor's indicator light show it is on? I hope you get it solved so it works right for you. Pat God bless everyone

Only need to add one thing to Liz's great post, always ask for the confirmation security code on back of the credit card to verify it. I didn't know my Visa card even had one until today when I called in an order to Swanson's Vitamins, and the nice lady who took my order asked for the last three digits of that security number near my signature to verify I had the actual card she said. Anyhow she said it is just another security thing to help them and customer stay safe. Funny I never noticed it before... that I remember anyhow.... or it could just be due to my CRS 'selective memory'!!! As for