09-14-2013, 11:25 AM
Lynn, I am an older person too, and have used computers for over 30 years, and I can tell you windows 7 and 8 are just too much different to learn. I bought a refurbished dell from walmart with win7 and after a month I just found a new winxp pro operating disk and bought it and installed it. I will stay with xp as long as possible, and it works with all my programs and hardware. There are reconditioned computers out there available with winxp still, and if all you need is the tower they can be had resonable. You might even find one on Craig's list but be cafeful of them. I had a girl try to sell me a computer that belonged to a school. (It had a big warning when winxp was loading 
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The cheap way out is to just put your vista disk in your computer and do a reformat and a reinstall. Of course you will lose everything you have unless you have it saved elsewhere.
There are programs you can get for free that will remove the virus if it will run. You can download and run malwarebytes. It might clean it up, and Maybe Running Bear will chime in. He might have some advise.
. The cheap way out is to just put your vista disk in your computer and do a reformat and a reinstall. Of course you will lose everything you have unless you have it saved elsewhere.
There are programs you can get for free that will remove the virus if it will run. You can download and run malwarebytes. It might clean it up, and Maybe Running Bear will chime in. He might have some advise.