I did download Foxfire, which is working great. I was able to get to Nikon to check out the software for my film scanner. Nothing on Windows Pro 7 or 8, but there is a driver for Vista, which I downloaded, installed on my computer with Vista (I tend to save my older computers for a situation such as this), and everything is working great. While my hard drive on this computer is fairly small and almost filled up, I do have an external hard drive attached with 2 TB capacity, so that should work. Thanks so much for the advice. Now I know what I'm going to be doing for the next 50 years!
The computer I originally had this on died, so I purchased a newer one with Windows 7 Professional (a refurbished from TigerDirect). When I tried to install the software, I was told it didn't work on this operating system. I got the same response when I tried to install it on a computer with Vista. I tried to go to Nikon to see if I could solve this, and all I got was annoying popups! Any advice would be sincerely appreciated. I have many slides to scan, but until I get things working, they're just gathering dust in multitudes of shoe boxes under my bed!
I get it way too frequently - I have no idea if it's a virus, but I'm treating it like one. I had McAfee software on my computer and it didn't seem to do anything to stop it. Any of the scans didn't show any problems - said my computer was secure. I was getting all kinds of annoying popup ads saying my computer was infected and to call a certain number or download a specific software. I eliminated McAfee and replaced it with Norton. It ran a couple of scans and detected a number of viruses, which it eliminated. I'm still having a few problems but not nearly as many, and it did all start with the request to download flash!
Absolutely love photos. What else does one do with seven feet of snow in upper state New York?
I'm now more of a tea drinker, primarily herbal teas, such as white or green tea. There's so much variety from which to choose.
I've taken a number of Photoshop courses at my local community colleges for free, except for materials such as paper, etc. If you are 62 in Connecticut, for example (and each state may differ), you can register during late registration (after all the paying students have signed up), and the courses are free. You do pay for books and, as I mentioned, supplies as needed. Being a college student, you can get a student discount on software or hardware at Amazon, Journey-Ed, and a number of other Internet providers which can save a few bucks, and we all want to do that! Best wishes, Nancy B.