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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Damn... That's a bummer sigs.

If you can't repair it, I'd do some research before buying a new one. I hear that a lot of them today are crap even though the prices are sky high. I'd try to get one with as few computer parts on it as possible, since most of your repair bills in the future will be because of circuit board problems which may or may not be purposefully built into the products these days.

Knock on wood, but I bought a used Amana Washer/Dryer combo when I first moved here for $325 and they just work. I don't know how old they are, but I've had them for going on 14 years now myself. I'm sure there is a board or two underneath somewhere, but they'd be really simple things since there is nothing but dials and knobs on both machines without even a simple LED or LCD screen anywhere to be found.

I've heard that Amana is crap today though even though they used to be top-tier.

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My washer and dryer came with my house—a 1990’s Maytag washer and an early 2000’s Amana dryer. You can pry my laundry set from my cold dead hands. In fact I will put them in my will to make sure they stay in the family. Heirlooms

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Originally posted by Brenda:
With a little help from Goggle I found an easier way of accessing Word rather then going directly to the icon, which means getting off my home page. So that is good.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
With a little help from Goggle I found an easier way of accessing Word rather then going directly to the icon, which means getting off my home page. So that is good.

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Nice. How are you opening it now?

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I type Word into the search area on the taskbar and it brings up Word 2007 which is what is on the computer. Even brings up all my documents. I just it open at the top of the menu and voila a new Word page.

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Nice Brenda. I'm aware that is a feature now, but I've been using Windows for so long that most of the time it wasn't so I tend to forget that it even exists, despite the fact that it always says "search" down there.

Like I said before, there's a lot of ways to do pretty much everything in Windows, and really no wrong way to do any of it as long as it makes sense to you and is easy to get there.

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And the good thing for me is that I don't have to leave whatever else I maybe doing on the internet.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I type Word into the search area on the taskbar and it brings up Word 2007 which is what is on the computer. Even brings up all my documents. I just it open at the top of the menu and voila a new Word page.

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Nice Brenda. I'm aware that is a feature now, but I've been using Windows for so long that most of the time it wasn't so I tend to forget that it even exists, despite the fact that it always says "search" down there.

Like I said before, there's a lot of ways to do pretty much everything in Windows, and really no wrong way to do any of it as long as it makes sense to you and is easy to get there.

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And the good thing for me is that I don't have to leave whatever else I maybe doing on the internet.

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Right.


Are you aware that you can "PIN" your frequently used programs on the taskbar and make it even easier to open them?

Try it out. Next time you open your browser and Word, you see the icon in the taskbar there? Bring your pointer over it, right click on that with your mouse and it will bring up a Context Menu. Depending on the program there will be anywhere from 2 options that pop up to quite a few. Sometimes those options will be a list of your most recently opened files within that program (like your book in word, for instance).

One of the options though will be "Pin to Taskbar".

If you left click on "Pin to Taskbar" the icon will remain on the taskbar even after you close the internet or word.

Then any time you want to open those programs all you have to do is click on them and they open without even searching.



Even better, on when you pin Word to the taskbar, you can right click on it and your book will be one of the Context Menu options as long as it was one of the last 10 or so Word Documents that you opened and you won't even have to search for your book to open it.



For most people there is plenty of room on that taskbar for all of the icons of their most used programs. You're probably only going to need a few. With all my computer work I use a ton of programs and I've never even run out of taskbar space. But I do tend to add and remove programs pretty frequently. When I know that I'm done using something for good or even just for a really long time I remove it just so I'm not clogging up the interface with stuff I won't be using.


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