I think only help-desk personnel, who would rather be hacking Pentagon and technical writers are upset that they aren't writing best selling novels. They don't get paid as well for hacking and nobody reads work of technical tomes of unfulfilled writers. At least they are both being paid to do something.

In early days of photography only scientists could be photographers because they needed to know how to obtain and mix chemistry, apply emulsion to glass plates, develop those plates and do that entire process again when transferring negative image to paper. Are we any less well-off now that cameras are disposable and we can see our film in an hour without going into a dark room even once to do it?

My wife is ready to throw away her new $1000 computer because it won't accept password when logging on to ISP. There is a real disconnect between problems and source here. That is usually case when things get so complex. Reading manuals won't help.

I look forward to day when software designers realize that users don't care how they created that amazing software and that as long as it will do what they bought it for without fuss, it will be popular and well- liked by buying public. If it takes a day of reading, I'll go buy something that works without study instead.

Is your VCR clock still blinking? If not, I bet you still end up seeing "blue screen of death" as often as I do.

Yup, it is using up resources like they had no limit. If you have more Stuff than Resources Windows will just stop! Not to mention that when it does get loaded and your pretty Windows background shows up, a lot of your Resources are already used up. Now you want to run a couple of programs. Nope! Illegal Operation or Critical Error. "CRASH" and "LOCKUP".

Wait! Before you start finding Folders and overworking tour Delete Key, there are some things you need to know. Windows has a program living in your Control Panel called "Add Remove Programs". If program is listed here and you just delete folder in Explore, all secret files stay on your Puter waiting for you to need program and eating up Resources.

So start here. Click on "Start" button, then "Settings", then double click on "Control Panel". Find program you want to remove and select it then hit Add/Remove button. Follow instructions and it will try it's best to get rid of program. Not always successfully though. You may get a message that "Some files could not be removed". If you are lucky there will be a "Details" button that will give you information about "Leftover Stuff". Write down information and then you get to be a detective and try to find them so you can remove them manually.

After you have removed "Old acquaintances" you should run "Scandisk" and then "Defrag" your hard drive. Removing files and programs will leave holes or spaces all over your drive slowing it down even more. You will be amazed at performance change. "May Old acquaintances Be Removed!"