Moving from PC to Laptop

I'm traveling around a lot more since retiring and when I get back home I have a stack of emails waiting for me!

Sure you youngsters are probably shouting a dozen reasons why this needn't be so, and no doubt your right.

However, they are all a bit too technical for me. Yes, I have a smartphone the email is a different one to my 'business' one and I do like some separation between the two.

So I thought of a simple solution. Get rid of my big PC and get a nice light laptop.

Then I can check my emails whilst sunning myself on a desert island, just as all these sales gurus do that constantly pester me.

Or even

After ploughing through all the options, listening to advice from my son and doing all the research I have ended up with just the right model. And for this week it is the latest model. Hopefully, it will last a nice long time, because.....

Passwords...

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I forgot about having to reset all the passwords on the new laptop. I just was amazed at how many of the day to day items needed a password before I could do anything!

Some of my day to day activities I have had on the computer 20 years (yes.. I was involved with computers last century). So needles to say some of those programs had a simple six letter word for the password.

Then some companies decided I needed some numbers as well, then a little later needed other characters and eventually, companies like Steemit have really gone to town.

Anyway, as you can guess I have a whole mixture.

It was easy with the old PC I added it once and got the computer to remember it. This last week I've been trying to link them all on my laptop, one program may have had numbers at the beginning/middle/end or no numbers at all.

That's my excuse for not posting anything for a while.

Now I have most of my programs sorted and probably all the files I need transferred, except one. Trouble is I don't know what that one is and I suspect I wont find out until I have got rid of the PC to a charity shop. (Having first deleted all sensitive files).

I'm delaying doing that for a month just in case.