Question #1 - Here is an article expounding the features of WMP11 you might find interesting. #3 - You obviously have, or had at that time, connection problems between yourself and your ISP. When this happens again you can either reboot and start over or - click Start click Run type ipconfig /release click OK A small black window will appear for a very short time, now click Start click Run type ipconfig /renew click OK and hopefully things will have improved for you. #4 - A CD holds 80 minutes of music, there is no way to define how many songs due to varying lengths. For example I have a CD here with 21 tracks over 74 minutes but they vary from a mere 58 seconds to almost 4 minutes in play time. On the books issue I believe you can get better and more up to date info using your friendly Google. Any time you need an answer try Googling, if the first attempt does not answer your need then rephrase the query. As you bring up a list try looking through for those written in a style you are comfortable with. Any of these can be added to your Favourites or Bookmarks for future reference.

Pkponder - thank you for asking your son-in-law on my behalf. It may come to that. Glad to know the Windows version of my main desktop doesn't matter in terms of the NAS. I am going to use a Tivo to retrieve digital data for playing on the television. At this point, I think Tivo's can play Tivo format (which is how I record and store my video) and mpegs. I believe the Tivo is DNLA compliant device. I barely know what that is, but I think it means it can transfer different file formats. I know that I can view my digital pictures, videos and music on my television by retrieving them with my Tivo. I can also play the videos on my laptop. I have Tivo desktop software plus which can transcode any of the tivo videos to a format that can played on Ipads and ipods. Of course, I would have to change the format first. Maybe an NAS can do some of that on the fly - I have no idea. I don't think on the fly video transfer to Ipad and Ipod is that important. If my daughter is home, she has plenty of alternatives for viewing video. And if she wants to load her apple devices for travel, then we have time to get them to the right format. I think the Synology comes with it's own network operating system (which I think is some type of linux distribution). My question on the Raid will be what type. I'll have to learn the difference between Raid 0,1,5 and whatever else there is, so I can choose the appropriate type for me. Thanks. Lynn.

Hmm, let's see if we can explain this for you. You cannot create an image of XP then transfer that to Win7. Why? Because you would wipe the Win 7 off the computer and have XP back again, not what is wanted. However you can back up all your personal data to either a CD, DVD, thumb drive or external drive to be copied back easily enough. Possibly most of your 'stuff' is in sub folders of My Documents so simply save My Documents. Then save your Favourites, Address Book and what ever else you need saved. Once you are satisfied that all your data has been safely saved you can insert the Win7 CD and reboot the computer. Hopefully your BIOS is set to seek the CD/DVD player first, if so simply follow along with the instructions that appear onscreen. One option offered if I remember correctly is to format the hard drive - or just the C: partition if you have the drive partitioned. hen you get the option to proceed with the install. You will have been warned that proceeding will erase all data currently on the C: drive of course. Once Win 7 is behaving nicely you can insert what ever you saved your My Documents onto and copy the contents to Documents in Win 7. My documents does not exist in Win 7 it is just Documents.

I live in a more temperate climate than you but find that cracking a window in a nearby but unoccupied room works just fine with my 36-inch range with a powerful exhaust hood. I don't think the open window needs to be all that close by to work well. Cracking a window in the kitchen works even better. I don't have one with a remote motor so any setting more than half is too noisy for normal use. Also not necessary, my fan moves a lot of air even at the halfway setting. Having a duct opening of any kind under a range doesn't sound like a good idea. Remember that air always follows the shortest path - if you have air leaks behind your walls, around windows, doors or floors, behind your electrical plates and connections, etc, air will come through those and not necessarily through the duct you want it to pass through.