Al- Thanks for reading my long post and for the compliment. Ronalawn- been there on the wrong side of the road, making left turns was the worst for me. By the way, speaking of the weight of a gallon of water..... I believe a US gallon of water weighs 8.3 pounds (at least it's a little closer to your 10 pounds, which is indeed the weight of an Imperial gallon.) Also, a liter weighs 2.2 pounds. There are 7.5 U.S. gallons in a cubic foot of volume. So, 5 gallons equals 2/3's of a cubic foot. (2/3 x 7.5 = 5). A cubic foot of water weighs 62.5 pounds. And just for grins I'll throw in... Watering Your Garden: To cover 1,000 square feet with an inch of water takes 625 gallons. One Gallon per minute (gpm) = 1,440 gallons per day. It takes 10.4 gallons every minute, to apply one inch of water over 1,000 square feet every hour. Gallons divided by minutes x 8.03 = cubic feet per hour. Gotta go water, it's HOT!!! Rebecca

Once your in the recovery console from pressing "R' All you need to do is fix the master boot record "FIXMBR" as shown below... "Now at the prompt, type in fixmbr. Your damaged MBR will now be replaced with a new master boot record and your computer should now be able to boot properly. Note that you may also want to run the fixboot command to repair the boot sector with a new one." Please see link for details on this.. Here is a link that might be useful: fix-mbr-xp-vista

Thanks so very much, all of you! I think I finally got into the "ballpark". Movie Maker was not in my programs, probably got bounced out in one of my infamous "crashs". BUT I did find it at MS and got it downloaded & installed, almost 3 hours. I'm on dial up! Ive got an icon on my machine now, so the next step, I think, will be to go into the programs Instruct &Help sections and start from there. You have all referred to Paint for various chores, this I have but have never used it. I've got a lot of learning to do before I tackle this project. Thanks again all, I really do appreciate your time and expertise! Pat

LL, 95% of my music is in mp3 format and some are left in the reg, they all play when they are in itunes folder. You don't have to convert them I did because I put them on an IPod and because I would burn them to a cd for the car and I could get 22 songs on the CD instead of 10 or 12. I convert them to MP3 by using Roxio, but other software will do it also. I make a playlist in Itunes...under file, "new",name it, then copy and past the songs from my music folders to the playlists in ITunes. It may take some practice. I have a playlist for my favorite songs. When I hear one I really like, I copy and paste it in favorites. It will then be in my favorites and in songs. If I had it to do over I would copy and paste them straight to the playlist and they automatically goes to "songs". I had a lot of duplicates leaning how to do this. If I want to listen to one particular singer or all songs I click on the right option and I set the controls to random. You can delete any songs from the playlists. It will ask "from the computer or just the folder". I would suggest when you get this set up like you want it back the music folders so you don't have to do this all again. If you buy a new computer and need to install Itunes again it will/should install with your folders just like they were. Aren't computers wonderful? I don't travel any more and don't need an ipod so I bought a radio with an ipod dock and can listen to a thousand songs in random if I want. The radio is a Memorex and sounds as good as my Bose. Very nice. I love music, I call it therapy for the soul. My taste in music has changed over the years, I love some of all music.