When I try and open the maco.doc document on lighting, it locks up my computer, internet explorer and I get a message that I have been disconnected by a foreign host. What does this mean to a computer illiterate?
Not exactly sure what is going on here. may be you should try to not open it while you are in Internet Explorer. Right click on it and then "save target as" and save it on your comptuer. Then try to open it.
May be somelse has other ideas on what is going on.
It could also be a version mismatch, if she still has that problem, can you email or post it to her as a txt or rtf file? Just in case something odd is going on with mixed versions (if yours was newer).
finnipper
Are you getting everything operational now?
everything is working fine. This is great.Sometimes I'm frustrated, but I wouldn't have missed this for the world. Keep up the good work. One question though, When I extract the mirc files I get a popup that says I have 24 days left. I have not registered, I just click continue. Is that the problem?
You can ignore that, it is just a push to get people to pay the registration fee for the program. It will still operate normally beyond that time, that little window just won't go away.