Good point. I remember reading about that, but i never had need to practice it. thanx for the reminder!

Getting ready to make a recommendation to her and surprised she hasn't called me yet. This one looks nice, the low weight and full sized keyboard are great, but the shorter screen may be an issue. Maybe the higher resolution isn't for her. I have no idea.

The walmart one is sold out online, but froogle found it elsewhere for nearly the same price (after shipping). The problem is, she can't check it out beforehand.

It could be the weight isn't that big of an issue. Maybe she'll rarely move it, like only when she travels, and keep it plugged in. If that's the case, maybe a standard Dell, like the Inspiron 15 would be better. It weighs nearly 6 pounds though, but is a full sized laptop for about the same price.

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The first time some drive by 0 day browser exploit pops up a UAC prompt (and it has happened to me before!) you will become a fan.

Never happened to me. A firewall is good enough.

how do you get thousands upon thousands of ISVs to agree which category their program belongs under?

They don;t choose, Microsoft would choose. It shouldn't be that hard to make the rules. ebay does it quite well.

Also, per-app volume control just rocks.

Not bad. I believe Windows has had that since the beginning though, but the app had to use that feature,

BTW, i appreciate your time here. I don't agree with you, but your probably affecting me more than i know. :)

Thanx for the advice and the link. I ought to be taking a closer look at that.

Yeah, first idea is netbook, but i'm afraid it'll be too small.

that new mobile Internet device she already has just won't do

Yeah, she says it's too confusing. My original comment to her was that it'd be perfect.

and has to be replaced with another new mobile Internet device.

The key word here is familiar. For a lady i'm guessing is in her i'm seventies, familiar has a lot of value. She also mentioned the repeat rate, but i'm sure that a setting somewhere. Also, i'm a bit afraid someone will just walk off with the iPad because it's less bulky and it's the new hot item on the market. Although laptops are stolen because of their portabilioty as well, i'm guessing it's a bit less likely.

I'm somewhat the same. At the office, i rearrange. At home, i hardly ever. I still like it better. I don't like when things move around. A better solutions would have been for MS to have programs use sub-menus, possibly through some arranged program.

As for the screen going dark, i don't care if its needed to draw attention. It draws *too much* attention.

I do hear what you are saying. I don't think i'm ready to give in yet. The more i give in, the less i care. The less i care, the worse i do my job.

Well, who knows? :)

I use shortcuts a lot, and i also separate my menus and have many sub-menus. The current method is perfect for that. The changing menu is very annoying. And that security makes the screen go dark. That is seriously discouraging.

Heh. :)

Good luck. And let me know if you do figure it out.