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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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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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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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Originally posted by Brenda:
I will keep all of that in mind. But no, I didn't I know that you could pin Word to the taskbar. Somehow last night I managed to get rid of the Edge icon on taskbar. Didn't notice it till this morning. Thinking about whether not it is important to put that back.

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I will keep all of that in mind. But no, I didn't I know that you could pin Word to the taskbar. Somehow last night I managed to get rid of the Edge icon on taskbar. Didn't notice it till this morning. Thinking about whether not it is important to put that back.

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My normal answer would be no, but is Edge the browser that you use?

If that's your browser, you might as well pin it back on the taskbar. It's the same steps I mentioned in the previous post.

Any program that you open will show an icon on the task bar. Just right click that icon when the program is open for the pop up menu and select "Pin to taskbar" and when you close the program the icon will stay on the taskbar.



When you removed it, you might have right clicked and accidentally clicked on "unpin from taskbar".

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I use Chrome as my browser and it turned out that Edge was doing an update adding another AI to things. So, the icon came back after a bit. I just ignore things like that anyways.

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Okay. You don't need to pin it then. I never use Edge for anything. Most people don't.

Next time you log in here with chrome though, give pinning it to the taskbar a shot. It's really super easy to do and is a time saver. Once you've done that, you can do it with Word anything else you use too.

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So, all is good. Still thinking about stuff and I really, really, really have to shoot off an email to that publishing site I found.

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I use Chrome as my browser and it turned out that Edge was doing an update adding another AI to things. So, the icon came back after a bit. I just ignore things like that anyways.

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Okay. You don't need to pin it then. I never use Edge for anything. Most people don't.

Next time you log in here with chrome though, give pinning it to the taskbar a shot. It's really super easy to do and is a time saver. Once you've done that, you can do it with Word anything else you use too.

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So, all is good. Still thinking about stuff and I really, really, really have to shoot off an email to that publishing site I found.

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Go for it.

I'm finally getting some stuff done that I was talking about doing.

My old man is coming by to visit tomorrow so I started cleaning my living room this afternoon. A deeper clean than usual... moving some stuff that's been in there for no reason for a long time now and also using microfiber cloths to really dust everything good before I vac it all up...

And that got me to look at the rat's nest of cables behind and all around my TV.

Sensless...

I've already removed 2 things I don't need to have plugged in there after tracing all the wires, and I found an abandoned RJ45 cable, VGA cable and coaxial cable that have been back there so long I don't even remember what I was using any of them for before I abandoned them. I also found my two 20-packs of velcro cable ties that I got for free after rebate maybe 4 years ago and are just now finally getting used (they are AWESOME, btw...).

I'm moving some furniture around while I do it too...

My old man is finally going to have a side table and a coaster to put his Coke on when we're watching a movie tomorrow. That's the really nice table that was in the kitchen above my recycle box and that the Air Fryer was on. Way too low to the ground for that job, really.

Not that it's the best replacement, but it will do until I find something better, I have a REALLY nice decorative shelving unit that my Step-Dad gave me when they moved. I believe it was actually a TV stand at some point, maybe? It's a really tall one with about 5 shelves under that top shelf. I won't be able to put my recycle box under or inside it, but it's going to raise my air fryer to the appropriate height until I can find a good cabinet or something to put over there instead. The recycle box will need to be put to the side of it for now. There will be enough room between the shelving unit and the kitchen door for that. I'm going to look and see if I have another nice unused tote for the recyclables instead, since all I'm using right now is an old Amazon packing box for that job right now.


I believe I'm going to take the small bedside cabinet from an old set I gave away out of my master bedroom and put that where the tiny cabinet with the hidden compartment is now. That's the one I've got my router and cordless tool battery charger on that's sitting in between my TV stand and the curio cabinet. It looks really stupid there because it's sideways... It's super thin from the front, but very deep. I can't really get to those drawers and they don't hold much anyhow. Not that it will look great in my bedroom either, but I don't really use it all that much and I'll need something to put the TV on if I take that bedside dresser out of the bedroom. I'll have to find a new home for the towels that I stored in there, but they were my "garbage" extra towels from some various old sets that I never use for bathing. They can all be put in a tote or a box in a closet, really. Once that's in the living room, I can use those two very large drawers to store most of the stuff that's cluttering up my curio cabinet.


I had all of my electric stuff for the generator plug laying on the floor in my livingroom for 2 or 3 years now. I also had about 20 carpet pads for steps sitting with them ever since I painted those basement steps too. These are extra pads I bought in case they didn't hold up well over the years and needed replacements, but the ones I've been using for years now have held up great and after I vaccumed all of them up a few weeks back they looked brand new. I probably won't need those for years and years, really, so I'm going to wrap them up in plastic and they'll probably go out in the top shelf in my shed where I don't have to look at them anymore.

I also had the oak medicine cabinet and the over-the-toilet cabinet/towel holder sitting in front of all of that too. I took the time to take the doors and all the hardware off of them so I can sand them, bagged up all of the hardware and screws in two separate bags so I don't lose anything or mix them up when it's time to put them back together, and they're out in my back porch now, waiting to go in my shed temporarily until I'm ready to sand them down sometime over the next few weeks.

So after moving all of that, now I have the space to put the end table over there for my dad.

I've got everything powered down around there now except for my internet router and gave the power strip and all the cables a much needed wipedown. I'm deciding what all I need to have over there and what can be brought to the corner decorative double shelf piece with a drawer underneath that I've got my printer and base home phone device on (paper for the printer is all that's in the drawer, both regular and photo paper, since it's a really nice printer). But I've got a beast of a double power strip on that thing and there's only 2 things plugged into it... Meanwhile I've got a billion things plugged into that outlet between the TV stand and the curio cabinet. It's just stupid and messy.

It's going to be great when it's all done, but I've got a lot of thinking to do about how I want it all to be when it's done. I've also got to dust everything down along the way and get all the stuff I'm no longer going to be using in there in its proper storage place too.

I wish I started earlier. Sun stays out longer now, but I'm quickly losing daylight. I'm going to be doing a lot of work with the lights on tonight, but I really need to get everything done behind the TV stand before that happens or that's going to be a pain in the ass without the proper lighting.

I still have to clean my bathroom and kitchen too. Boy... I'm going to be working into the wee hours of the night.

Oh well....

It's all for a good cause.



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