John, Harvey,  I bundled with Quest and kept my E-mail server and also I did 
not care for Windows Live so I was able to keep, Outlook Express which I am 
used to but my X Y L uses a laptop and she still has W Live so maybe you 
guys could work something out that way or something.  73Ed  K7UC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: Managing a repeater


> I'm learning windows 7 between my laptop, I have it but I'm learning and
> getting it going right now before I get rid of the desktop and my netbook
> has windows 7. I'm learning by playing, I can't say I'm a huge fan of
> windows 7 but it's getting familiar to me now and really just by playing 
> I'm
> getting the hang of it. The biggest problem I had to adjust to and I found
> the fix, was the email program, I hate windows live mail, just can not 
> find
> one thing to like about it but I found windows mail in windows 7 so have
> that going. It's a learning curve but once you get it setup the way you
> want, it's better then I find it's a good thing to get used to searching
> from the start menu for what you want rather than going to it the old way 
> if
> it's not on the desktop or whatever. I'm getting comfortable with it, I
> figure I have been around since windows 3.1 and had a dos computer around
> until 2000 in regular use for packet and still do for programming radios 
> so
> if I can learn all versions of windows all that time, I can learn windows 
> 7.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Managing a repeater
>
>
>> John if you do go to a lap top, do you have any suggestions on how to
>> learn
>> Windows 7?  I am also thinking of getting a lap top, but most of them now
>> have Windows 7.  I know you can build them yourself, but I don't have 
>> that
>> luxury for myself.
>> Harvey