New Laptop

Gah. My old laptop just lost all it's networking abilities. This has happened before, and it's a hardware issue. Last time it happened, my factory six month warranty was in effect, and I got it back with the hard drive wiped - they'd done a restore disk to it. Of course, as part of the process, I had already done that. They didn't tell me what they'd done, but I'm sure it got a new motherboard.

So, I'd bought a three year warranty from Wally World, but of course I couldn't find the stupid receipt. Getting a receipt requires the date of purchase. Gee, seems like I don't have that.

I'd bet a new MB would cost my hiney, so I bit the bullet and bought a new laptop today. With Windows Vista. I can't get Eudora to download emails. It is the default mail program. Its included in the programs for Windows Firewall. I can't seem to find what is going on in the trial Norton Security setup - it doesn't have a section for allowing certain programs - it just says what it will do for an email program.

Windows Email didn't import my messages worth a crap - I've had to install Outlook on the old laptop to import and export my address book. Messages, not so much.

I like Spybot Search and Destroy. I cannot get administrator rights to immunize in that program. I see I have Windows Defender - which is supposed to do the same thing, so I'm probably SOL regarding my favorite antispyware programs.

What a frikkin' pain.