Hi Gents, and thanks for all the advice-which I will be printing out and keeping.

Grim, i've never heard of ubuntu, but I will do some looking around for info about it. As some wiseman above said, free is good ;-))

Hi Ike, thanks for that. Were still having problems here w/ yahoo. Today it took about 15minutes to log in. After finally getting in, it still took about 10 minutes brfore I could even start to delete some of that daily Spam I get.

I've had problems in the past with that timeing out thing. For the past year or so, i've been having that happen with my account. I thought it could be something to do w/ the library system since they are always changing, adding and deleting things. About a week or so ago, just after they did whatever it takes to make things faster, everything was perfect, fast, and I actually had about 1/2 my allotted time left-over to mess around with. Im not usedf to that. Anyway, that lasted only 3-4 days and then back to the very slow stuff.

Hi Skipper, TA, thanks guys and i'll also look up those as well. Im not yet electronically savvy but hope to be much more wiser before the end of this year.

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