Ciao all- I'm just about done with the fresh-from-the-garden canning except for some peppers I still need to pickle. I used this thread as motivation to go through my inventory this weekend. This is what I've put up in 2009 (cases are 12 jars, numbers refer to volume in milliliters): Italian Tomato Sauce: 2 cases 500's Golden Plum Butter: 2 cases 250's Blackberry Habanero Jelly: 2 cases 125's Quince Preserves: 2 cases 250's Black Forest Preserves: 1 case 250's Enchilada Sauce: 2 cases 250's Picante Sauce: 2 cases 250's Ketchup: 1 case: 250's V-8 Juice: 1 case 1000's Chilis in Water (pressure canned): 1 case 500's, 1/2 case 1000's Pickled Chilies: 1/2 case 1000's Pickled Jalapeno Rings: 2 cases 250's Pickled Pepperoncini: 1/2 case 1000's Spicy Garlic Cucumber Pickles: 1 case 500's Pickled Romano Beans: 1 case 500's Sweet Cucumber Pickle Slices: 1 case 500's Unsweetened Applesauce: 2 cases 500's Spicy Applesauce: 3 cases 500's Whole Tomatoes in Water (pressure canned): 1 case 1000's Chocolate Mint Jelly: 1 case 250's Habanero Gold Jelly: 2 cases 125's, 1 case 250's Cranapple Butter: 1 case 250's Caponata: 2 cases 500's Chicken Braising Sauce: 1 case 500's Green Unripe Apple Pectin: 1 case 250's Fig Jam: 1 case 250's Cucumber Relish: 1 case 500's Lime Basil Vinegar: 2 x 1500 jars Red Rubin Basil Jelly: 1 case 250's Nasturtium Vinegar: 2 x 1500 jars Nasturtium Jelly: 1 case 250's Anise Hyssop Jelly: 1 case 250's Zabby's Pumpkin Maple Butter: 1 case 250's Rhubarb Jelly: 1 case 250's Superhot Chile Concentrate Paste: 3 cases 125's Zucchini Relish: 1 case 500's Anise Basil Jelly: 1 case 250's Cinnamon Basil Jelly: 1 case 250's Dried Stuff: Chocolate Mint Blue Spice Basil Anise Hyssop Rainbow of Cherry Tomatoes Paste Tomatoes Golden Plums Chile Peppers, mild to wild Entrees (all 1000ml jars): Full O' Beans Soup: 1 case Carrot-Ginger-Orange Soup: 1 case Crab Marinara Sauce: 1 case Split Pea Soup with Ham: 1 case Cassoulet: 1 case Spicy Beef Chili: 1 case Still to Can: Pomegranate Jelly (250's) Acai Berry Jelly from Pure Juice (250's) Blackberry Maple Syrup (500's) Pickled Garlic (250's) Pear-Ginger Jam (250's) Blood Orange Marmalade (250's) Blood Orange-Cranberry-Pomegranate Relish (250's) Blueberry Lemonade Concentrate (1000's) Red Currant Jelly (250's) Tomato Sauce with Milled Frozen Puree (500's) Coq Au Vin (1000's) Gulyas or Goolash (1000's) Boston Baked Beans (1000's) Beef-Elk Stew (1000's) Lasagne Sauce (1000's) Spicy Italian Sausage Pasta Sauce (1000's) This is a great spot to track progress and keep the inventory documented. I like that!

Hopefully in a week or two I'll have some nice pics of ripe tomatoes lining my kitchen counter. For now, I've harvested about 6 Stupices, 3 Bush Goliaths, 2 Isis Candies, and 10 Red Currants. Not quite exciting enough for a group photo. ;) My Opalkas are the most monstrous plants I've ever grown. One is 7' tall 60 days after being set out in the garden, and these plants are thick and bushy. They're putting on quite a few fruit now, so I'm not worried that there over-fertilized. Just ridiculously vigorous. Stupice has been producing for me, and I have good-sized green fruit on Earl's Faux, Kellogg's Breakfast, Orange Russian, Giant Belgium and Black from Tula. The Opalka plants: Some Opalka fruit - probably 2 weeks to ripe on these. Red Currant in a container - loaded with trusses of blooms and some branched trusses with up to 30 fruit: Fruit load on my Stupice:

ravencajun, thanks for the links. I was not aware that Windows came with that. I will check it out tonight and see what can I do but, one question as I am not sure this solution will help me... The "problem" that I had originally resulted in these issues: (a) my desktop display switched to a gray screen background instead of a picture I had taken, (b) a few icons on the desktop were giving me problems trying to activate the programs, (c) Outlook is now looking for some weird file called outlook.pst, cannot find it and it will not start. I have reset my background picture but will your suggestion help with the outlook problem? cg, interesting points. But that is what I am trying to do now a days: restore to a full back up point. I too assumed it would be less complicated to do a full restore than an incremental one but I was wrong! I like your idea of using the software for a backup of the external drive itself too. But that will be after I can get around this nagging problem. The date I am backing out to is all the way in September, when I bought Acronis and the very first time a full backup was done. Luis

with only 2Gb of memory with windows7 Ultimate you may have issues, that is not much memory for that operating system at all. there is a great forum for windows 7 they have lots and lots of tutorials set up, I would highly recommend using that site. Windows 7 Forums there are ways to set up 7 to look more like xp so that the look may make it easier to adjust to. Make the Windows 7 Taskbar Work More Like Windows XP or Vista If you want that same classic mode (the gray toolbars and such), that does exist in Windows 7. Just right-click your desktop, choose Personalize, then scroll down and click "Windows Classic". Make Windows 7 look like XP for many more like this here is the google search for you Make Windows 7 look like XP My prefered method to move my data from one pc to another is using a usb thumb drive just put what I want to transfer on the thumb drive then stick that in the new pc and load it to that machine. be sure you have your security programs up and running before connecting to the internet so you do not risk infection right off. The 2 free ones I would suggest are AVAST or Microsoft Security Essentials. Also install Malwarebytes free and update and run it weekly. Which ever AV you choose make sure you have the 64 bit version since your new windows 7 is 64bit. Let us know what more you need. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (Win) - Detecting and Removing Malware Free Antivirus 64-bit to help you understand what 64 bit is all about Download Microsoft Security Essentials there you would choose the English one and in that drop down box the windows 7 64bit option.