Dear Mr. Jim,
First of all, I meant no offense and did not
intend to cany name calling. "Geeky" in my book
is a compliment rather than a deragotory term but
then my "book" is a bilingual one and I may not
always get the terminology or register of
language right. So again my apology as no offense was intended.
I am absolutely self-taught on the computer also
back from the dos days when I reformatted and
reinstalled my first computer at least half a
dozen times in one weekend before I had it up and
running properly. I did learn how to install the
os and programs that way for sure! (I was sighted then though.)
I know what I can and cannot help with, though.
i'm afraid I have never touched or even just seen
a vista or win 7 system and would be foolish to
give advice on it. I know about services a little
bit but feel at home only with xp and 2k. I wish
I had a box capable of handling 7 as I would love
to learn the current os but we have father old
hardware here that will not handle a newer os.
I learned the hard way also to not necessarily
trust tech support people. They may know some
things but may not have any idea about some
others and especially not when access technology
comes into the picture. I may also be too
critical of some people though. I do want to know
what is being done to my system and would read up
on any changes anyone proposes to make to it. I
also would never want anyone just make some
changes to my system that I do not understand and
do not know how to reverse. I am probably some
help desk persons' nightmare at times.
To learn more about windows services and what to
disable or leave, you might want to google for
something like "windows 7" and "disabling windows
services". This should turn up some results that
give a list of services under win 7 with what
they do and what can be turned off. I do have
such listings for win xp and will be glad to
share but could not guarantee that or how much of
the information is relvant under win 7.
Again my apologies. I have utmost respect for
anyone learning computers - or anything for that
matter - on their own. I respect anyone who is
willing to learn something new and doesn't expect
to be spoond-fed. I wish I could help more with
your quest but I am not qualified. I am sure
there are others on this list who are more
up-to-date with their technology and who will be
happy to help you out. I was just outraged at the
idea of someone telling you to turn off all the
services. It makes me wonder now if there was a
misunderstanding. I wish you all the best of luck
and success with your quest and hope you come out
with a nicely tuned and obediently and happily
running system and also with some new experience
and the kind ofthrill I feel when having solved a
problem or accomplished a task or goal.
Sincerely
Doris
At 05:55 PM 11/11/2011 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Doris: Thanks for calling me a geek and
saying that I am irresponsible and that I am
copping-out by asking my wife for assistance. A
tech person told me to do that, I know next time
not to listen to what they say until I read up
and investigate the issue myself as Iâve
always done. I am a self-taught computer user. I
have always learned by trial and error. As far
as these kinds of changes, I normally would not
do them, but they assured me that it would be OK
to do so. My problem started when I had the
staples store install windows 7 on my vista
computer and I also had them install more memory
as well. Now, when I type a search into the
search box on the start menu, I have to type
just about the whole word and press down arrow
to get the search results list to come up. This
works, but it is annoying. I have called
Freedomâs Scientificsâ tech. 2 team about
this issue. They have no idea why the search
edit field is not behaving correctly. Since you
are an advanced user, do you have any
suggestions? Also I want to thank you Steve for
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