Book Board Chat

Hi guys. limping along a little on this old HP laptop. A tech from our broadband/tv/phone co. spent a couple hours or more linked to this, cleaning it up and trying to get my email program open...makes a big difference. I can't use Adobe Shockwave, apparently, on this old one, so can't play some games, but that's okay. Can't get onto Facebook either at the moment, but I'll live. We went to Yellowstone, stayed overnite at Gardiner, MT, just outside the park, and it rained both days (this time of year it's very common). But we got out of the house for a day or two. Then stopped at Walmart in Cody on the way home to get a big bag of cat food, and looked at towers (I was surprised they had any) - bought an ACER (same as the nice monitor I have, thanks to Beth)...it has a lot of room, much more than I iwll ever use, and 8.1 inside. I have a message in to the tech department at TCT to find out about how much it will cost to send my old puter and this new one and havbe them transfer the stuff into it. The work he did the other day was FREE, mind you. They remotely take over your computer with a program called Bomgar, and fix what they can...a godsend. If my old computer isn't fried, and I don't imagine it is, I'm hoping they can take both and also upgrade it to Windows 10 before I ever start working on it. Stupid to learn about 8.1 and then have to upgrade while 10 is free and have to learn THAT. The man who did the work last time for us seems to have disappeared, so I'm just going to put it in the hands of our ISP techs. Shouldn't be awfully expensive. And they'll just add it to our monthly bill. Anything anyone knows about 10 that I ought to know? I opted not to get a laptop since I do a lot of typing and dont' like the keyboards especially on the laptops There's something, um, comforting about a tower humming away (when you're old and not wanting to change!!).