This is EMBARRSING!!I am 47yr.old married homemaker, and we've just purchased our 1st.computer!My question is, where is a good "on-line" site that can teach me to understand how to use Windows Vista-Home Basic?(in language I can actually understand!)

If you have young kids, just let them teach you. They'll probably enjoy an opportunity to be cleverer than you.

Nothing to be embarrassed about, everybody who has owned a PC had the same feeling at one time or another. Here are a few sites that you may find useful. Also if you have a Office Depot in your area, look in their book section, Microsoft Vista Visual is a great book for beginner's learning Vista. HELPFUL SITES FOR VISTA http://www.snapfiles.com go to the freeware section, lots of free software that is vista compatible http://www.howtogeek.com http://windrivers.com/VistaDrivers.html http://www.askvg.com/ (also good for XP) http://www.vista4beginners.com/ http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/ http://thevistaforums.com/ http://mintywhite.com/tech/ http://winvistaclub.com/ http://www.windvis.com/ http://www.vistahelpline.com/ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607 http://www.pcworld.com for many Vista compatible software click download, next page type what you’re looking for in blue search box and new page opens http://vistaonwindows.com/ http://www.bc.edu/offices/help/meta-elements/doc/articles/html/SW-vista-updates.shtml http://help.com/tag/381949-vista this one is much like our site with post answers just on Vista http://www.web-articles.info/e/a/title/Windows-Vista-help/ http://vistasupport.mvps.org/ http://tech.yahoo.com/gd/using-the-windows-vista-control-panel/200429 http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/how-to-use-windows-vista-speech-recognition.html this one is for the program on vista and speech recognition http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2109974,00.asp -speech recognition also http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66966-logon-automatically.html this shows how to reset vista so that you no longer have to have a password to log on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx this web site for shareing printers & files & folders in Vista Hopefully these sites will help you find the tips or software or maybe instructions on how to do that one little thing that was frustrating you. G_tech

This isn't a site really, but a recommendation. There is a person here on Answerbag who often hangs out in the Computer section that goes by the name G_tech ( http://www.answerbag.com/profile/?id=302294 ) who is *very* good at teaching computer skills to people such as yourself. She might be a little wordy at times, but she is very good. If you stick around here, you might see her. It seems to me that she might be more helpful than any site.

Theres nothing to be embarresed about, everyone starts somewhere! I dont really know any sites that will help you with vista, but i can reccomend this : http://www.google.co.uk That website must become your best friend and your most used website. Hope i helped.

Also - when you are in a Windows application, go to the top of you page and click on the Help tab. Take a look in there – you can type various questions in and get some of your answers right there. Do not feel embarrassed, many Baby boomers missed out on the front end of the It explosion – they did not have computers in high schools in the 1970’s.