Is this a genuine MS message?

[motco]

[pic][/pic]

It keeps popping up and I ignore it.

[motco]

Cliftonite said:

"We need you to kick it off". How professional!

It was that expression that rang my alarm bells. Thanks for the responses, all.

[motco]

Well I ignored the pop-up and went to the Microsoft update page. There I learned that my current version was out of date and I allowed MS to update it. That seems to have worked well enough with little visible change. Maybe the pop-up was different from the MS web page route? Ojh, and I have Avast running too.

[motco]

techiedave said:

WinstonWolf said:

techiedave said:

Will this update mess with my ie6 browser settings ?

It'll probably bugger your Alta Vista search engine good and proper.

Ah thanks for that.
I was recommended to upgrade to Vista a bit ago. Something to do with aero would make my internet experience better.
I've stuck with 2000 but maybe its time to move on

If you have a floppy drive I can lend you a copy of Windows 3.1 (IIRC), Paradox, and perhaps a late DOS version too.

[motco]

techiedave said:

motco said:

If you have a floppy drive I can lend you a copy of Windows 3.1 (IIRC), Paradox, and perhaps a late DOS version too.

Cheers m8
Sort of like a back up you mean ?
One of the big problems I have with the upgrade to Vista is thats its a DVD and my tray thing doesn't work with it. I was told the tray thing might be dirty and to blow into it really hard.
I did this a few times and let me tell you it nearly finished me off I had to sit down afterwards.
Made no difference I can hear the disc thing spinning but then nothing happens. I rang the bloke up at the market stall I bought the vista thing from but he wasn't very helpful. Said I had to put it in the DVD drawer and it will start up. I knew he was fobbing me off as I cant see what putting a DVD in under the telly is going to do for my PC.
Anyway it turns out I have a CD player in the PC and some PC's now have a DVD instead. So I would like to take you up on your very kind voffer and actually ask a favour. Do you have a copy of vista on a floppy ? I know its a big ask

At my time of life most things are floppy...