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That's why they should've stayed with XP. Hell my grandma was even learning it till they threw it all away when Micro'fk decided it should be more difficult to learn and everything much more hidden. Other grandma's were learning it too as XP was at the sweet spot of computers being powerful enough to be useful but simple enough to learn. ME was a horrible experience for many and turned people away and 98 was more for those already with some level of familiarity with computers but still very good usability with only one or two clicks to even do advance features.

We were too far away from her to really help her but Dad tried to go up there to help but one of our family members took the old computer away and gave her an Apple instead which neither she nor dad knew what to do with it! LOL. The family member is an Apple snob and thought it would 'fix' the problems. Now that same person is complaining none of their old music software and other software works since an update about a year or so ago. He's going thru what we went thru with 64 bit back under Obama!