When you unfriend someone they are not notified. If you remember who it was you can refriend them and it will be back to the same position as if you had accepted the friend request originally.

Mostly because I'm so used to Windows and do a lot by reflex. But for start, no double click, no right click, all the windows have to be sized, you have to use the mouse or touchpad, the keyboard commands are more tedious, and the particular one I was using happened to have a smaller than normal keyboard, which isn't a problem with the Mac per se but it didn't help either.

Basically, I don't do graphics, etc., and mostly I use the computer for typing. Any time you need to take your hand off the keyboard to use a touchpad or mouse, you slow down and it's really irritating if you are proficient in any way. The windows keyboard is set up so commands for highlighting a word, a sentence, moving about in a spreadsheet or word processing document, etc., become reflexes - the control and alt key are close at hand and convenient. I can hit the three keys to save a file in less than a second and don't think about it. So since I"m used to that, I hate the product I don't know.

My wife and her friends are musicians and they like their Macs.

I've been switching back and forth lately and all in all, still prefer the PC. However, I will give this to the Mac - it's a lot easier to add a DNS if you want to connect to a particular site that's got some security. W the PC you have to modify the lmhost file and with the Mac you just use a drop down menu.

I don't disagree but it's like the old DOS commands. Once you learn them they're second nature and it's harder to unlearn something than to actually learn it in the first place. Hence my frustration. When I managed an IT shop, we used all MS products though. Not because they were necessarily better, only because the rest of the organization used them and it was far easier to have everyone learn one thing than to have people who needed to develop dual expertise. There was a lot of resistance to giving up Novell and going to NT at the time, and I actually agreed with the objectors, but still made the decision and then put myself thru the MCSE course just so they couldn't claim they weren't able to learn.

Long time ago. However, there is a wonderful program called Virtual Windows that runs on the Mac and son of a gun, it's just like home!

On one computer it's the most recent Mac OS. If I boot up in Windows proper, will all the utilities act exactly like Windows? That could save a lot of trouble.