Just lost a long post directed to Adrienne. Grrrrrrrrr! now I will have to re-write making it as brief as possible. For fungus, I use a product called Funginex, a systemic fungicide, which has now been taken of the Canadian market, may have enough to last me for next year. As I do not know where I will go from there. Anyhow, If I was you I would get the most recommended Fungicide you can get hold of. This was my routine for last year. I only sprayed twice in the beginning of the season (though I did intend to keep it up) Anyhow I groomed my roses every morning, deadheading when colour changed and petals were not quite ready to fall. Any sign, which was virtually nothing through the main season, of black spot on leaves I would remove them at the same time. We mulch with compost in the Fall and in the Spring we spread it around the rose beds. I fertilize with granular rose fertilizer once per month and try and use a liquid fertlizer every couple of weeks. I honestly do not keep this up as long as I intend too, but that is the regime as far as the feed and spray go. I do not use an insecticide (I used to, but not anymore) Any aphids, I squish with my rubber gloves on. :) then I hope nature will take care of the rest, I also hand pick off caterpillers. I honestly garden here against all odds, to cut a long story short after losing many roses to deer in the past, we have now moved whatever survived all in a NOW deer fenced garden in the back. And I am literally nursing them back to what they should be - a lot of TLC for sure. The other big obsticle is that our property is surounded by a dense band of very tall evergreens, cedars, firs etc. so because of this, we get absolutely no sun during the winter and minimal in early Spring and late fall. But loads in the summer time. We also have springs on our property which make it very damp and boggy in parts, all bad news for black spot, yet we manage and have had a lot of compliments on the health. So wish you all the very best with yours Adrienne and a big welcome to the North West.:) It really is a beautiful part of the world. Although we do not have an ocean view because of our trees - we really would not want to give up our privacy, but we are only 2 and 1/2 blocks away from the ocean(as we call it, but it is actually the Georgia Straights) We live on the east coast of Vancouver Island, right opposite Vancouver. Our daughter and fam live on the mainland. Anyway, hope this helps, will probably put some pics up of our back garden some time to show, how we are constantly digging up more lawn to make way for roses - just like it is encouraged on this forum!! I need to give my head a shake. Thanks all of you for you lovely comments - It is sure nice to share ones roses and gardens via this wonderful world of photography. I realy enjoy seeing other peoples pics. It is a wonderful tool to show us all what is out there!! Cheers all! Pauline - Vancouver...

I think we have been jumping back and forth between specifics of my particular post and questions posted in general. I don't have enough experience in this computer forum to really add anything to any general discussion beyond my own personal, very minor experiences, so I will go back to the specifics of my post and my own situation. In the past, when I was a Windows PC user, I was an intermittent visitor to a number of computer forums, not this one very often, because of low traffic here, but all the forums had very friendly people who were generous with their time and expertise and seemed happy to help. Since switching to an Apple computer, I have barely stepped foot in a computer forum. I have not needed to. My laptop just works 90% of the time and when it doesn't, I have a 3 yr tech support policy in place. Something I've had with every computer I've ever had since I first started getting on the computer in 1995. It has been a big relief, because maintaining a computer and straightening out technical problems even with help was a very frustrating task that I never enjoyed. It always felt like a 'big black hole' of wasted time when some issue would present itself. Even with an 'expert' to help figure it out, you'd never know how many hours you'd have to take away from whatever task you were trying to do, to stop and figure out why the computer wasn't responding right, 'again'. Or how many days your computer would not be working. Even with a tech support policy, I might call and get the wrong information and no fix with two techs, and have to call back again and then a third tech might know just what the problem was and fixed it in about 10 minutes. So, even though I was less technically literate, it seemed like even among the technically literate, there were a lot of people who seemed as confused as I was. I always tried to understand what I needed to know. Always tried to find out what I could do using the computer that would be preventative and avoid problems. It didn’t seem to matter, tech problems always seemed to present themselves regardless. So again, I can’t even express how relieved I’ve been not to have that experience with my computer any more. My husband has a windows based computer with Vista on it and I don’t even want to touch it. Which brings me to my thread that seems to have triggered this discussion. I wasn’t even asking for help with a problem with my computer. I had already been working with my own situation for 3 days and taken steps to resolve it not only with GW but with my own Apple tech support. I was not satisfied with the responses or information that I was getting from either about whether this ‘downloaded file’ was a problem or not. That was why I posted here. And from the information that ravencajun offered, it would seem that I had reason to remain concerned about the ‘possibility’ that it could be a problem and one I wanted to take steps to avoid in the future. Even if the file that was downloaded onto my computer was not a problem, it might have been. So, what was it about my thread that has caused a negative response? What did I do or say that was wrong? I’m still here defending my thread, why? Have I even done any of the things that some of you are expressing you have a problem with? I was very appreciative for the help ravencajun gave me and I even tried to smooth over my initial response to Mike, even though I still think he was wrong in both content and attitude in his response to me, I was more than willing to give him a break and overlook it. At this point, I am at a loss to understand how what seemed like a simple question has resulted in my feeling like I have to defend myself for asking it and now defending all people who come to forums and ask questions. That doesn't seem right to me.

What was the suffix on the original email you could not open? Was it .pps - .ppt - or was there an additional x on the end of either suffix? You cannot simply change a suffix, all that does is ruin the file entirely. If you have MS Office you do not need Open Office. However if it is an older version (97, 2000 or 2003) and you receive a PowerPoint 2007 presentation it may not work. You can download the stand alone player from Microsoft from the link below. Take a look here and see if that cures your problem. PowerPoint presentations are among the best emails you can get in my opinion. The program was and still is basically a program for the office environment but many have found it an excellent way to show off family or scenery photos. Here is a link that might be useful: PowerPoint 2007 player

zep516, I tried sending an email to myself as suggested but it was never delivered...It shows up in my "sent" files, but never came through in the "in" box, owbist, no this was an original email I sent out. I'm thinking that it could be something creeping in because I changed some settings because my ISP company has gone to a new system and I got this long email instructing me how to change some firewall setting to accommodate their new system. This morning I went back into Windows setting and set everything back to "default". I don't know if my e mail is going to work right now or not, it's something I'll have to check out. What is this GREYMAIL? I got an email this morning, something about it, I deleted it and hit "block sender and bounce to sender". any other info will be appreciated..........