They gave up on the idea of me being webmaster. No way was that ever going to work.
But thanks to you guys I've made some more progress. But it is very much a stage of two steps forward, one step back.
Firefox
I managed with the links provided above to upload firefox as a browser. Very easy to do, the link to it even had very simple instructions. And then I went into hotmail and my emails came in. Happy days, I was so happy you wouldn't believe it - short lived I hasten to add. But I was there thinking you guys are geniuses and all sorts of wonderful other things about you including the fact that if one were getting married nowadays it might be an idea to check out a man's computer skills. In the old days it was only one's skills with rabbits ears and ability to go on the roof and turn the aerial that was important but we have progressed from that.
Rte Player
Fired up with enthusasim on my success I decided I'd tackle the RTE player (that I'd previously deleted). I think this is where I came undone. Not only had I deleted the player from my programs, I'd also deleted 3 different versions of adobe, I had no idea this adobe programe was linked to RTE. So obvious solution was to get it back. But then something bad happened.
Babylon
At some stage, only a couple of minutes after I'd got firefox I noticed it had changed to babylon, the browser that is. This is something called a malware, - see I'm progressing, all I know is that means Babylon is like a parasite and is very difficult to get rid of. And how do I know this, well I googled it to try and get rid of it, and you'll all be impressed I actually managed to do it. Mind you I was exhausted and megga p---ed off with all this knowledge that I do not need to have in my brain, that will be of no use to me subsequently. I had to get rid of it in two places, including deleting firefox and starting again. Even though I was making notes along the way, I have no idea where now to go back and delete such a maleware if it creeps in again. Question 1 - is a malware a virus and if yes why didn't my anti virus stop it. The only thing I remember is that I had to go into programes and delete Babylon but it's not called Babylon because there are evil people on there who create these things to drive people like me nuts. Question 2 - why do people create such things, for fun, for money what? But I did suceed in getting rid of it. Then I thought I'll give RTE player another go.
Adobe
This seems to be the problem as to why we cannot see RTE anymore (live or programs). I uploaded the adobe from the RTE site, that didn't work. Then I uploaded adobe for firefox and that didn't work. Temporary techi that I am I even uploaded adobe for windows 7. Meanwhile OH who was watching a man movie (brain dead/Tommy Lee Jones/Volcano) and is mightly sick of the PC and me, but he really really wants RTE even tried to help. He's now at the point that if nothing else, not even my email or anything else works he will be happy. He's even now offered me his laptop such is his upset. Another mega discussion, not quite an argument, but he is upset about because he consider that I can do the emails somewhere else and pointed out to me that I won't be able to get Frontline or the news or really upsetting this, Brendan O' Connor so can you guys help on this. My husbands theory is that because we live abroad that now we've firefox, RTE know we're not in Ireland and will not let us see them anymore. Is this possible that he is correct?
Hotmail icon
As outlined I can go into hotmail via firefox and that works brillant. I also a few minutes after opening the PC get an icon for the mail (outline of man and woman symbol), this is the 'old' hotmail that doesn't work and is locked on incoming mail to a few weeks ago. Am I correct in thinking this is the hotmail coming in via the Microsoft browser and can I get rid of it? the icon that is and replace it with a direct icon but via the firefox? This though is not a priority.
The help of AAM
Before I did all of the above I printed out all your instructions from here and while the kids were doing their swimming class I went though the whole thing line by line studying your responses, and making notes, it made me notice that I'd missed certain things and I had to write in what you meant when you used abbreviations but I've learnt a lot. I think that's why I made as much progress as I did. The only real priority I have now is the RTE player. To give some feed back, I do know what the recycle bin is, I'm such a dab hand at that I knew to delete what I'd deleted from there too, so that wasn't a solution for me on RTE.