After the later part of this month I believe it the official start date... when you buy a new pc from most all of the major pc makers, they will give you a coupon or someway to get a free copy of the October release of Windows 7. Right now I have noticed on newegg if you buy Vista program they give you a free upgrade to windows 7. I would imagine that all the main vendors of microsoft softwares will do the same. Think if I were buying a single copy of win7 ultimate I might as well buy the online subscription to microsofts dealer or tech net for $350 and get access to download many softwares and registrations for self use free.

Thanks, Mikie. I can't locate the disk nor the registration #. Dell shipped this machine loaded with the software. I don't remember if I had to type in the code #. I paid full price for the full suite but Dell won't have anything to do with my losing the disk. The computer is 3 yrs old and I don't know what happened to the disks which came with it. We moved this year, maybe I left them behind or lost them. Just doesn't make sense as I have all the disks for our other 4 computers and can't find any for this computer. I keep all disks together in a box and they aren't there. Hindsight, should have checked before reinstalling Windows. I think it could be possible, Dell never shipped the disks with the computer but can't prove anything. Meanwhile, I have a all my Word docs sitting on-line and can't bring them back. Microsoft doesn't sell 07 and the only place I could find it was on Ebay. I have Office 03 on my other computers. I can't use those disks because they are registered to those computers. Comedy of errors...it is a real learning experience. Jane

I wanted to thank "Nellave" for the post on the Windows XP security update issue! After a week of pulling my hair out from the lack of response from Singer-USA, coupled with the inability to find any "real" information on the CE-100/Autopunch problem I was having, the information was a GODSEND! I just wanted to post an update to the information I found, for those as equally frustrated as I was. I did some research on the XP security update "KB917422" that Nellave mentioned, and found that Microsoft acknowledged that certain programs requiring the use of the "CDCOPS.DLL" driver were affected. It appears that the security update was originally meant to provide protection for the datalink (USB) connection between the comnputer and, in this case, the CE-100/200. This way, no harmful code could be tranfered to/from each other. Microsoft has issued a Hotfix for this issue, which will let users fix the problems with drivers affected by the original security update, without having to delete anything. I've enclosed the link below. If the link doesn't work, go to Microsoft.com, Knowledge Base (left menu), select "Windows XP" (Not with SP2), and type KB924867. Select the first knowlegebase article that appears and scroll down to select the "Windows XP" package download. (Make sure the article is talking about the problem I've described above, before downloading anything!) Before downloading the fix, my suggestion would be to delete the basic Futura (and all add-on software) through the Control Panel "Add/Remove Programs" utility first. Then, go to the location (Drive "C" was the installation default for me) where the Futura folder is installed and drag it to your Recycle folder to delete it. If you have the ability to clean your registry, I would run the program and delete anything related to the Futura software, but it's not really that important. Restart the computer, download the Hotfix, follow the instructions for intalling it in the appropriate system location and restart the computer again. Install the basic Futura software package, restart the computer and check to make sure that the newly installed software is functional. Close the main application and install Autopunch or other add-on package(s). Make sure to restart after all installations are complete. I found that, depending on how fast your system is, it may take a few seconds longer than normal for the Futura software to open, but it will, and your Autopunch or other add-ons should appear in the "Create" menu. Good luck and God Bless this forum! Here is a link that might be useful: Microsoft Hotfix KB924867

I use tax software to do my taxes, but I also do 5 other people's taxes too (because they know I bought the software!!!!!). I, like fellow Canadian joyfulguy, took the time to learn how our income tax works. Doing it manually really gets you to learn. I scoured our government website, and actually reviewed as many help guides in the tax software i could. There are cheaper versions out there than the one I got, but once you buy one version, your kinda stuck with it each year, as it "remembers" stuff you put on last year and carries them forward for this year. I did get it done professionally once. I believe it is still a good idea to do that, just to reaffirm yourself that you are capturing all the deductions and claiming everything you are entitled to.