Thanks Carey,
Looks like the answer to a amateurs prayer. Will try your suggestion though I hope the "download & installation" comes with some sort of guidance.
If it works OK and gives me XP capabilities again is it likely that I will be able to retrieve some of the old info/programs that I used to be able to run on the old VAIO computer since the repair man gave me back the old Hard Drive suggesting
that I might want to destroy it personally . However I bought a unit from "Amazon" to accept the hard drive and it now functions OK as a 'backup' drive. It still has some XP/Sony info. on it. Would this XP info. be useful or should I just wipe ALL the old
stuff away? I found "Outlook Express" a much easier email system than all the more modern applications, [and adverts free].
Thanks again, will try your suggestion now!
Walter Macqueen.
