1. It’s clean

2. If you purchased the upgrade, KEEP XP installed.  Don’t format first.  Otherwise your registration code won’t work.  You will end up reinstalling xp and then reinstalling win 7, like I did.

3. windows mail is not installed by default.  (wow!)  Instead you install it by downloading it from windowslive.com

4. AVG Anti Virus FREE 9.5 works fine.

5. This VERY cool “writer program” I am using now lets me update this blog without leaving to go to the website.  =)   It’s called windows writer.

6. Faster than Vista.  Seems to run fine on this old laptop.  Dell Inspiron 710m with 2gigs of ram.

7. If you have multiple computers like me and you are going to upgrade, get the 3pack license for 149.00.  It’s a deal considering 3 individual licenses run 119.00 each.

If you can download email (recieve) but not send… and it worked just fine the day before… your ISP may be blocking the default smtp port 25. You will need to either use port 5190 or 587. Change that in the advanced settings and your problem should go away.

This is from outlook 2007. Very similar to outlook express. You may have to look around in your settings if you use alternative mail client software:

Recently, clients have been receiving emails similar to this:

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Dear user of the YOURDOMAIN HERE mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (YOU@YOURDOMAINHERE.COM) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:

http://YOURDOMAINHERE/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=YOU@YOURDOMAIN&from=YOURDOMAIN&fromname=YOU

Best regards, YOURDOMAIN.COM Technical Support.

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This is a scam. Ignore and delete.

James