New Computer

My 1998 Gateway computer has been replaced with a 2008 Hewlett Packard Slimline. The Slimline is a table top and is much smaller than the usual computer. It is about 10" high and 4.25" wide. It is very fast and I am able to open U-Tube sites and play them. The price at Best Buy was only $475 and it came with a new key board and mouse. It had Microsoft Vista loaded on it. The first thing I did was to load AOL 9.0 SE onto it and I had trouble right away. My address book and favorites (including blogs) would not come up. I spent ten days with AOL experts trying to get what I wanted. It was all very frustrating because they had me try many things. Finally, I took it back to Best Buy and told them I had a defective computer. A member of their Geek Squad looked it over and soon discovered that Vista is not compatible with AOL 9.0, it is only compatible with 9.1. He installed 9.1 and everything fell into place. My salesman failed to tell me this. Additional info I got was that a file transfer called a Link (connecting two computers together using USB ports) was not a good thing to do with an old computer like mine. There is an impedance mismatch when old and new are hooked together. He recommended I get a Cruiser and transfer files using it. Today I am back in business.