I know we have many community Self-Help organisations, usually voluntary, to assist the Lesser Computer Literate Lot, but isn't there now a case for 'someone' to start a professional organisation of Computer Schools, similar to the Typing Schools that I recall from my Youf, where one could pay for tuition in the art of using a typewriter ? Not being sexist you understand, but in those days many young women friends went off to those sort of places after school, in order to make themselves more eligible for the secretarial posts that they seemed to occupy.
Seems to me that there is a similar need for learning to use a computer, maybe there is, at the younger end of the educational scale, but there ain't much available for my end, and suffering from NEGBF ( new electronic gadget brain failure makes life difficult.) I could use one such establishment now to learn more about computers than just typing on the thing, yet I don't want to enroll in a 3 year University course designed for the 18 yr. olds -who would be texting on their iPads all day anyway -or similar, just somewhere I pop into when I have a new problem.
I'm not trying to boast, but I did attend a Senior Net thing, where computer techniques were taught for "Seniors" ( i.e. old fogies like me ) but apart from learning a bit more about using Excel, I reckoned I knew more than the volunteer tutor.
Even at a Local Ideal Home Exhibition, I showed the "Computer" stand representative a thing or two that I had learned about Vista, which was new then - and they gave me a new programme of Word 2007 as a thank you ! (don't like it. went back to my old Word '97, which I'm familiar with - If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It.)
Even if I'd even known about the 'fix' that Green Granite gave me, I'd have been frightened to experiment with it, for installing, or uninstalling, one of many options about which one knows nothing leaves one open to screwing something up that doesn't manifest itself until weeks down the line,when one has totally forgotten what one did, or how to get back to restore the original default.
Thank you.
Last edited by ExSp33db1rd; 17th October 2012 at 21:05.