How true. There's hardly any point in the search function if you have to read thru 80 posts to find a word and then it turns out not to be relevant after all.

Neal I take it you are a little intimidated with the inner workings of your computer? Nothing wrong with that. I was terrified the first few times I took the side cover off. However you must decide if you are going to get past that and fix it. You have asked for help and it has been given but you do not appear to have tried many of the suggestions so far, or have not told us what happened when you did try things. So far we know you cannot use Internet Explorer so you cannot download and install necessary updates from Microsoft. Nor can you go to online scans because most if not all of those are set up for IE. We know your AVG is at least 6 months out of date and the wrong version making it vitually useless. We know you do not have a firewall so anybody and everybody with the savvy can (and probably have) attack your computer and the dozens of phone home spies installed on your machine are taking possession. We know you cannot get to anti virus sites, for me that says virus's and trojans are in control of your computer. At this state it is pointless to worry about if your teenager's actions have caused the problems. Those actions may not have helped but the responsibility here is yours because you failed to take precautions needed for safe computing. From the computer you are using to post here download the free AVG 7.5 from here then from here download the free AVG anti spyware and from here download the free AdAwareSE and from here download the free Zonealarm firewall and finally from here download Crap Cleaner. Save all these to a thumb drive or burn to CD. Now on your computer and remove the cable to the internet for now. Then click Start, click Control panel, click Add/Remove programs. Remove AVG, AdAware and anything else that pertains to safety but is out of date. Install and run Crap Cleaner at the default settings, this will remove all the excess files and fragments of programs left by untidy uninstallers from all over your computer. Install AVG anti virus, AVG anti spyware, AdAware and Zonealarm. Allow each to do a full scan while still disconnected from the internet and allow Zonalarm to start. Then re-connect your internet connection and open each of these programs and get the latest updates. Then run the full scan with each again. Then visit Microsoft for all the Windows updates you are missing, I asume you have WindowsXP? Now Neal, if you are fearful of any of this say so and hopefully another poster will come along and tell you that what I have suggested will work - or disagree and tell you different things to try. There is nothing in this message to harm your computer.

Diane, we are so pleased with everything. The angel cream has been smeared all over her face two nights in a row, it has pixie dust in it you know!!!!! We are going to make the cookies Saturday so will try to post a few pix then. She LOVES the activity book.....going to try to find a few more for our road trip this Sunday. The cookbook is a very fun read, I see a few recipes I will try, but the lye and grease soap I think I will pass on!! (It has recipes for just about anything in the home) Thank you again Diane. Robin, her arm is a myoelectric (has two electrodes implanted in the arm)and she can open and close it with her muscles on her little arm. She is very competent with it and without it, and we used to have to get her to wear a few days a week with some coaxing. Last month a kid at a party we were at "laughed" at her little arm (she did not have on the prosthesis) and so she has insisted on wearing everyday now. She has a "tatoo" of sleeping beauty on it but it is turned away from the camera. Janet

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