Gerard is happy about this--he's been wanting a new one for probably three years now but the one we have works just fine. It's an emachine with windows XP, the one I got for my dad back in July of 2006. Yesterday I got a message that as of April 9, there will no longer be support for windows XP. This means that not only will there be no technical support for it, but no automatic protection against viruses or updates. I found some complicated instructions at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20 for doing an upgrade to windows 7 but I do not want to bother with that since my computer is almost 8 years old.
I have lots of pictures that I will miss. I backed up some on cds but to reload them all into a new computer would be a nightmare. Some I tried putting on a SanDisk 4GB portable drive (I think that's what it's called). This takes a long time to do this too since my pictures are organized into 17 different folders. I could probably delete a few though but it's still lots of pictures because I even have some subfolders in them. This is really stressing me out.
I have AVG virus and malware protection which works very well and I just renewed it! Fortunately, there is a number I can call to let them remotely come in to my new computer and transfer it over but I have to delete it from my old one first. Then, my Epson printer may not be compatible. I tried checking to see if it is compatible with windows 7 or 8 and I couldn't even find the picture of mine on there! This is a big headache for me. Times like this, I wish I were a computer geek, I feel so ignorant about the actual workings and set up stuff when it comes to computers. I sure wish they gave me more notice.
I am not one bit excited about this but plan to start the hunt tonight, Best Buy here I come, guess. Have you gone through this process of transferring to a new computer?
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