Well I'm blessed! It saves.
Doing that has caused a much smaller and simpler Save menu, but it's all I need, so thanks very much. I'm too tired to test drive it very far tonight, but first tests show it saving quite normally.
I was convinced that the only way was to beat Vista into submission, but maybe next lifetime. This is a good work-round.
Wife still sitting at her new toy, and we checked that the full menu was still working on that...it is. I guess now, any further probing will be nothing more than curiosity, though I would like to know exactly what was bulking the system of course.
The Firefox thing is puzzling, it's as though data was left on the formatted disc, but I guess that it stayed embedded in Windows on drive C: even though the bulk of it was deleted from D:. Anyway, my investigative proclivities will be suppressed by the Rivetess for now.
Thanks again LR
Last edited by Loose rivets; 20th Oct 2008 at 07:11.