> > > Just a few years ago, I would have said, "Aha! A little sister." But these days, the younger they are the more computer savvy they are. So . . . your grandmother, maybe?
> >
> > This actually was a few (or many) years ago, and it was a little sister.
> >
> > But I will tell you something about my grandmother as well: My grandmother (before she had a computer) once said that she didn't want a fast computer because it would go too fast for her to see what was happening.
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> I understand her concern. I've never had one that was too fast, but I don't speak their language.
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> What bothers me is that they can fix themselves. I'm serious. Something isn't working, so you turn the whole system off and fire it up again and, WOW! it fixes itself! Not all the time, but often enough to make it worth a try.
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> I just wish I could teach my computer that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Recently, mine decided that I didn't need an address bar anymore. I have to use a search engine to get into sites where I don't know the whole URL. The address bar has been missing for about a month now and I really need it sometimes. Fortunately, the one on my laptop still appears.
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> Omigosh! I am typing this on the laptop! I hope it doesn't read this and get an idea.
> Howard

My mom also recently learned that restarting usually "fixes" the problem. She likes to turn on and turn off the computer a lot now. The good part is, she and my grandmother are getting more tech-savvy in what they have to do (watch videos/Skype), so we don't have to constantly set it up for them.

By the way, if you want to type in the URL, you can always try Ctrl+L. In Mozilla Firefox, that puts you in the address bar, and on IE, that gives you a kind of pop-up box where you can enter in the URL. (I'm not quite sure if that works on other browsers, but it should be universal.) I'm pretty sure you can also change the settings to find the address bar again.

~Crystal109