Thanks, Scott!
Just an update: I intended to use the long weekend to uninstall Total Access, possibly do a "clean re-install", and continue with what Gmail offers as far as security is concerned.
However, for the past three days, my pc has been running extraordinarily slowly. It is so bad that when I type, the letters appear 1 or 2 minutes later, instead of instantaneously. Changing windows has been equally as bad. It hasn't improved, even when I did System Tools - Disk Clean, Scan Disk, and Defrag, as well as Ad-Aware. I don't thnk I have a virus, but ya never know.
I have also been having a "Murphy's Law" week with computers, in general. Two nights ago I came home from work and attempted to get on the Internet - but couldn't. We had a thunderstorm and it knocked out our phone service. A couple hours later, the phone service was restored, but the computer couldn't connect to the Internet. Don't know why. Yesterday morning, however, it did, and it ran like a 120 year old human.
Yesterday, instead of hitting the reply tab to a PM, I hit the delete tab. This morning, after taking forever to type an Email, I decided that I had enough of Total Access, and did an uninstall. I had to shut down and restart and then the Connection Wizard popped up and had to re-enter phone numbers. I think I made a small, but significant mistake and when I went to connect to the Internet, I couldn't. No matter what number I used or how I tried to retrace my steps to correct a possible mistake, I couldn't. The message box kept on saying the line was busy, but I really think it was me - but I don't know how to correct it. So now I have no access to the Internet with that pc and the two Emails I never got to, are now MIA.
To add insult to injury, for those of you who know I work at a lab and analyse Mercury samples, I am in the middle of a run as I type and the instrument thought it would be a great idea to stay in one autosampler tube and consume all of the sample, without producing a reading or moving on to the next location.
Also, my IM accounts, which have been a little inactive - have been closed out.
This has not been my week for computers!
At least the plants are doing fine.
My 19 year old son / computer geek and I are going to resolve the home pc issues this weekend. See ya'll Tuesday!!!