Can you all hear me at the back?

What I do really hope is …… oh, bother, it took me so long messing about to find this font I’ve forgotten what it is I really do hope!

I’ve been having a messing about day with this computer. I made the terrible mistake of ditching Norton Anti-virus in favour of McAfee. I didn’t really expect to be able to load it all by myself, duffer that I am, but I did think I might get past the first screen! It wouldn’t let me go any further but dint say why. My friend Linda reckons that any stray vestige of Norton will keep Anything else out so I should get rid. “It’s not easy,” she said, “I had to get A Man in to do mine.” Oh No!

Well I hadn’t a clue how to do all this ‘getting rid’ anyway, though I nodded sagely at the telephone. I thought I’d better have a bit of a look round, see if anything sprang out at me.

I found a bit where I could alter the size of what’s on the screen. Ahhh, that’s better. I can read it now. I found where I could choose Radio 4 as one of ‘mine’ but then couldn’t hear it, though the volume appeared to be at max.

Then, nitty gritty time, a Wizard told me there was no Norton 2005 on the computer. Well, I know that - it’s 2007. Before that it was 2006 and before that the computer was a twinkle in the boffin’s eye. Well! I found a couple of little icons in a long list of what’s installed that referred to Norton and to Symantec and, screwing up my courage, hit delete on one of them. A box popped up telling me I can’t delete that one as it’s needed to run all the others. What others? It doesn’t exist, it told me so. Well, I never did! And I simply dare not go to the other one and try to delete that instead in case it let me do it and it turned out I shouldn’t have!

I don’t know what to do now. I bought it online and of course it’s paid for so I’ll have to do it somehow. Everybody else seems to sail through these things but not moi. I just feel very very silly. I’ll have to see if our Kate can come and bail me out again.

Well, that’s my day. I think I’ll go have a good cry now

ANGIE, xxxx