GM Ed,   
      
   I'm now configuring and adding programs to my XMAS gift, A Dell Latitude   
   laptop.   
      
   Yesterday I installed the TI9 that has done a beautiful job in my old   
   ThinkPad with XPp.   
      
   It installed OK but when I started it up, it claimed that it couldn't   
   work on this computer with Win10, because it's a 16 bit program.   
      
   That was the first hint that the installed W10 may be a 64-bit ver.   
   I do however have floor-standing Dell Optiplex 760 that has been   
   upgraded to a Win10 32-bit system, so all hope isn't lost yet, hi.   
      
   NOTE, I'm not complaining, just stating facts.   
      
   The same fate may hit the other programmes I'll want to install, like   
   FileZilla, FireFox, Thunderbird and a lot of others.   
      
   The Adobe v5.0 reader installed and works without a hitch, but I'll   
   upgrade that. It's only necessary for me to read the contents of CD/DVDs   
      
   I'm not happy with the AVG Free either. This was installed from the   
   start as virus, and other protections, because of a nag screen that   
   comes up, every time I start up, about buying their pay version.   
      
   I remember a text, from I think it was Jeff Guerdat, about how to remove   
   the nag screen from another virus program, it may have been Avira Free,   
   that I also have in the XPp machine.   
      
   I don't have any problems with Avira, relating to a nag screen however.   
      
   Oh well, I'll continue to fight with an operating system I don't know.   
      
   In the mean time, I relax with outdoor exercise every day.   
      
   It's not raining anymore, since we have got a real winter again, with   
   temperatures about -5øC, and lots of snow with more coming each day.   
      
   We are however happy with the temperature, because on the mainlands both   
   west and east, are having ten degrees lower temperatures.   
      
   It will stay that way, as long as the sorrounding sea is open, because   
   the water temperature is still above freezing.   
      
   The snowfalls will also continue, because the winds are collecting   
   moisture from the open sea, and that causes the snowfall when the winds   
   brings that moisture over land.   
      
      
   73 de Sam, OH0NC   
      
   aka Holger   
      
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