Computer wise that is. I recently picked up a virus or something. It was one of those " you have a threat, click here and clean up it up" deals. Then it began to ad redirect cookies, and all such crap. After trying Malwarebites, super antispyware, crap cleaner, dr. cureit, and one or two more. Running Microsoft essentials AV about four times, I decided to download Avast, AV as i always had great success with it not allowing stuff on in the first place. When i did after a reboot windows will not longer load. It is dead as a doornail!!

So i dug into my old linux fedora redhat boot, which had stopped working and fiddled a bit and now have it open and running. The problem is that my wife has about a gazzillion old e-mails that she does not want to lose on Outlook express, and i do not know how to access them. I have been told by Cox, our service, that they are on the hard drive and not on their server, since we needed to check a box that said "save all e-mails on server" Great!!!!! Since i used webmail for my e-mail client, i was able to retain them when i openned up under linux, but is there a way to access the files and reclaim that astuff or is it a completely lost cause?

Heck if I could get windows to boot even under safe mode I could click that box and save and maybe open under some e-mail client in fedora, and save the day!!? Any ideas?

HP Win 11 12 gig ram, Mac mini Sonoma with 16 gig of ram, BiaB 2025, Realband, Reaper 7, Harrison Mixbus 9 32c , Melodyne 5 editor, Presonus Audiobox 1818VSL, Presonus control app.