So I've been playing with the my new computer with Windows 7 and must say I love the speed of it, and never really realised how slow the old dinosaur was, I used to turn it on and go and make a coffee so it could get going 
While the computer guy said Windows 7 was like XP everything had CHANGED. Why do they have to mess with things that are perfectly fine, in my view. I'd done lots of courses about XP when I was working and could fly it pretty well I thought. So after weeks of messing about I think I've found how to do many of the things I used to, but those CHANGES meant the new computer wouldn't talk to two of my old printers and after some thinking about it a third has been accepted, and the scanner/printer/card reader has also been graced, but now, due to CHANGES the way to work it is totally different and I'm struggling to get it to do what it used to
The biggest problem, due to CHANGES, is that the last 8 or so years of my photographic life are on an external hard drive, and guess what? The new computer won't talk to it!! The old computer still functions, at times, so the solution was to transfer the photo files via a USB stick, except the new computer won't talk to half of mine and the beaut new 64gb one I'd not used will let the new computer talk to it, but not the old one!
. It seems it was just as well I had grey hair at the start, it will be white by the time I get sorted.So a slow process of transferring, via a mutually acceptable USB stick began, until the old computer didn't want to talk to ME
In a flap I succumbed and called the Geeks2U, rather than lug a trailer full of bits to the local computer shop, gladly putting this fortnights pension payment back into the system to earn some more taxes to keep the pension going The friendly Geek got things sorted as best he could, but due to CHANGES I now need a new external hard drive that is both XP and 7 friendly so I can load all my stuff from the old one and start again on the new
With continual CHANGES though I just wonder if this electronic stuff is what it's cracked up to be
Here I am with CDs loaded with photos, and I found lots of new computers have CHANGED and don't take them, a hard drive full of photos that new computers won't read because their brains have CHANGED, and USB sticks with photos, ditto! What about using the cloud I asked? The Geek thinks that is a passing phase too that may not last and reckons to stick to USBs 
I can only hope I don't have to go through another CHANGE in life with computers, I don't think I could stand it
And while he was at it the Geek CHANGED a few things on the new computer to help make it easier for me, I sure hope he knew what he was doing
So, tomorrow will find me shopping for a new external hard drive and hopefully getting all my photos accessible on the new machine, that's right, it is a machine, and man made them, shouldn't I be the master
Hopefully I've mastered the CHANGED scanner programme enough to get some stuff posted again soon, I just love CHANGE - NOT
Grumpy old George!!
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