Mikie, thanks for the suggestion. I have no idea what you're talking about. I have tracking protection disabled. My Avast gives me an orange block in page corner to tell me how many trackers it's blocking, so I would hope that is enough. I just didn't understand why it's called tracking protection if you enable sites to track you and they are all listed as including 10 others. Call my dumb however you want, I just don't understand. fruitjarfld, I thought I made an appropriate suggestion to snideley, but thanks. At this point, I think I'll give up on tracking protection. I'm still losing my internet connection, am unable to use the other browsers due to my Intel chip's age, so am off to investigate other ideas to work around that issue. Thanks so much for all the time and effort you have all spent on my behalf, and I can't see the point anyway! So nice of all of you to try to help me. :)

Thanks for the info. I am in no way stupid, but my skills are heavily in language and anything related to math can easily sandbag me. I am afraid of making my computer problems worse if I try to fix them, because that is exactly what has happened in the past. I don't open suspicious files but I still get an occasional worm or virus. I live in the country, precisely, among many Mennonite farmers, and technology has not found its way very deeply into this area. Getting technical help out here from Syracuse is expensive. MY ISP, TDS, whom I hate because I believe they gravitate toward underserved areas and then exploit their customers, offers an expensive monthly "service" to keep my computer fast and clean, but it is expensive and I am suspicious od TDS. I am fortunate that I can get DSL because many of the people out here are still stuck with dialup service. Few dare to try satellite service and I have heard nothing good about it. As I said, I research anything and everything that crosses my mind or which I want to buy and I am certain I am encouraging problems that way. I will ask the guru who is eventually coming about imaging. I have Asperger Syndrome and don't deal well with change and that is why I cling to MS products--I got started on them with an ISP employee sitting next to me, who set them up, and instructed me in their use. I have tried different browsers and mail programs in the past but the differences in them were extremely annoying. Another thing--I don't "intuit" very easily and things that seem obvious to others never dawn on me. I can and do learn but I need to find a tutor who can figure out how to explain things so I can grasp them. Still, I have compelted two MS degrees and theses with high honors since computers took over the libraries.

Who cares about the past. Hmmm... Very flip. "Those who forget about the past are doomed to repeat it." I'm with you, DA_McCoy. Just ask my lyin' cheatin' POC now-ex-DH. (BTW: Kharma in action: He's fat and his hairline has migrated, which he's trying to hide with the comb-over he once ridiculed. I guess he's forgotten about the past.) 'Nuff said. I, too have always been a Norton fan. in the early 2000s, though, I had a very odd thing happen. Twice. I was having serious system trouble and for some reason or another I decided to follow Norton instructions and uninstall and reinstall my Norton Anti-virus. It followed some path and deleted my profile. Which included all my not-so-well backed up documents (years of them) my Favorites/Bookmarks, and everything stored in my profile. I recreated, but again, with whatever trouble I was having, working with their reps, I un/reinstalled. Gone again. Of course, they didn't dare tell me (this time) that it didn't happen, just that it "shouldn't have" happened. Huh? Well.... But that was then and this is now. Zep516, I'm glad you said that about flushing the restore points. I hesitated my finger over that button, but my logic told me the same thing. I had used a month old restore point. Given the fact I thought my McAfee was working for over a month, though, I probably did as you described. After reinstalling the program to replace missing or corrupt files (yes, in my Anti-virus) McAfee told me itself it hadn't run a scan in a month. So there you have it. I've been flying along, though. Things are going well and I continue to appreciate the help! I did join the board you recommended and am reading. You never know when I might lose my mind again.

Your first response to Elmer included a quote of what I had written, which explained the use of the Backspace key. And included in that response of yours to Elmer, you said that pressing the Backspace key once would take him to the top of this page, and pressing it a second time would take him back one page of his browsing session. That is incorrect. Pressing the Backspace key once (when not in the Comment box, typing like I am) will take you back one page in your browsing session and pressing it a second time will take you back one page further in your browsing section. If you are reading on a page and you want to get quickly to the top of the page, press the HOME key. The PAGE UP key will also move you upwards, but not completely to the top with one press. Depending on how far down the page you are, you might have to press the PAGE UP key several times.