My old laptop is really, really, on its way out, so I bought myself a new one. This has Windows 7, which is going to be interesting if I ever get to use it. However, I have so far been unable to persuade Mozilla Thunderbird to work on it. I have downloaded it, then it wouldn't use the name I told it to, so uninstalled and reinstalled three or four times. Finally got that settled, but now it will not give me news.eternal-september.org. At least, it says it is there but in faint print, and when I try to list the ngs I want, nothing happens. Has anyone else come across this problem? and if so, how did you solve it?
The next problem after that will be transferring all my old files from this desktop whiich is Windows XP Home, to the new one. I did try to transfer various programs which originally came on cd, but that did not work with any of them,. so I had to download all of them instead. p.s. I do not intend to transfer PMB to this new laptop until everything else is up and running.
Any practical suggestions will be graefully received.
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.