Sorry I didn't post more today. I made what may have been a mistake, upgrading my PC from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I hear from most folks that Windows 10 is so much better but so far, I'm not sure in what way. I know I had some problems getting my old desktop back and then I had to do some fancy reconfiguring to be able to connect to the 'net after the upgrade.
At one point, I was so unhappy with how it wasn't working that I tried to roll back to Windows 7…and that wouldn't work either. I phoned Microsoft Tech Support and got connected to a man who was not on this continent and maybe not on this planet, either. I couldn't understand half of what he said and he was unable to grasp the concept that the keyboard I use (an older one) does not have a dedicated Windows key. He kept telling me to look to the left of my spacebar and when I told him I don't have a Windows key, he told me to look harder.
Nothing he said helped but I suddenly thought of something I hadn't tried before. That got me connected to Ye Olde Internet and buoyed by that achievement, I ended the call with the Tech Support Guy on Saturn and eventually solved most of my other problems.
The biggest casualty of the changeover is that I can no longer use my favorite blogging software to compose posts offline, then load them to my site. I tried 'em all and the only one that worked for me was a very old program called wBloggar in which I composed probably 98% of all that has appeared on this site. Alas, its maker abandoned it long ago and it doesn't run under Windows 10…so that's not good news. (Before any of my fellow bloggers write to recommend Post2Blog, Raven, Windows Live Writer, BlogJet, WinJournal, WordPress's new offline client or any of about nine others: Tried 'em, don't like 'em.) I'm writing this in Notepad, then I'll manually upload it.
I am neither recommending nor not recommending Windows 10. I am recommending to myself not to do any more major software upgrades when I have deadlines pending. It took a long time to get everything working again and it would have taken even longer if I couldn't have solved the problems I solved. Now I'm writing again…and worrying something else will go wrong.