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Help for elderly friend

Oct 19, 2007 3:24AM PDT

I've just come from an elderly friend, who was given a new Gateway by her out of town son. We were trying to bookmark a website she liked, but Google asked that she register, and she was told not to register for anything. What can I do when I go back to get her an easy search box? It's my first time with Vista.

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re above message
Oct 19, 2007 3:27AM PDT

I meant a bookmark folder not a search box

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Google has yet to ask me to register.
Oct 19, 2007 3:31AM PDT

Something's not quite right here.

Bob

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?maybe google tool bar being installed by mistake
Oct 19, 2007 8:35AM PDT

Or are you sure it wasn't to register Vista? If this was the first time to run the computer and it's like my Vista computer, the OS loads and then asks to be register. Is that maybe what was going on? The browser that ships with Vista is IE7 and if you have never used it, it can be hard to navigate. I have used FireFox for about 2 years now and when I got my Vista computer I installed it so I would not feel so lost in the great Vista void. Maybe you should go the same route.

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bookmark
Oct 19, 2007 11:39AM PDT

I'll have to take a better look next time I go. I am used to Firefox and IE both having a Bookmarks heading, but all I could find on her start page that indicated bookmark was a little star icon.

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Yes the star icon with its little bother
Oct 19, 2007 9:55PM PDT

is the place in IE7 for setting up bookmarks (also known as favorite). I imported my bookmarks/favorites from IE6 on a win98se computer to my Vista computer IE7 and Firefox browsers. You could do this for your friend, then all the site bookmarks used in the past would be on the Vista computer's browser (IE7).

If The Old Computer Is Still Available

In IE simply do File>Import and Export>Export favorites to get them all in one html-file (from the old computer) that you can easily put on a floppy, burn to CD/DVD if you have burner, or email as an attached file and import again on the Vista computer's browser IE7.