I've had four people at AOL try and help me and the advice did not work. I am
lost in the technology ... I have the phone number of the geek squad but they
too expensive for me......are there any other services in New York (Brooklyn)
or is using Craigslist a good idea to find someone???

NeedKarma

To be brutally honest I would get off AOL. It's a dying animal without many left to help you out since very few people use it.

jammy23

As I said....I'm computer challenged when it comes to fixing things and I'm so use to AOL
that I will go down with the ship should the time come. I"m a senior and change no
longer comes easy to me. But thanks for your reply

Curlyben

What's the issue and we might be able to assist, after all we have alot of knowledgeable people here ?

jammy23

It's sill, the things that go wrong but for one, on my email, I can no longer use my
"stationary" and I can no longer print emails in colors, only black...and my toolbar
arrows go into the background so I can't use the toolbar or add to it...then for some
unknow reason it becomes all right again but it has everything in duplicate. When I
delete the duplicates, the arrows disappear..weird. My print is lighter then it use to
be and everything has to be on bold. It' s not my printer. I have new ink in it.
See..silly questions...I followed two pages of instructions for the tool bar and had
to delete all "toolbar lst" whatever that means...lots of instructions and it didn't
work. I had to take many steps for the other problems, but nothing worked including
downloading 9.1 again.

ScottGem

Contact your local Senior center. I think you PC needs to be looked at and scanned for malware. Many senior centers are becoming very supportive of seniors using the Net.

Curlyben

I was about to say the same thing.
Sounds like some serious maintenance is in order.
There's some great info here: http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/compute...rs-233870.html

jammy23

Thank you Scott. I never thought of that and there's a center near me.

vingogly

Also, a lot of park districts and community colleges have free computer courses for seniors - I'd also check with them. By the way, I think being change-averse has little to do with age. I'm 62 years old and am constantly learning new things, plan to continue doing so until they haul my cold carcass away. I think anyone can learn new things if they're motivated to do so, regardless of chronological age!