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Thanks for the info. With Windows 10 you can setup auto backups either full or incremental. You can setup so if she gets pictures or movies of the grand and great grand kids they can auto save to their own drive. You can set timers so YouTube movies start automatically playing any music she might like so she'll have to do very little.

Since she is elderly, I would invest in a hi end gammer type of video card and a 32 inch flat screen TV like this "Sceptre 32" Class FHD (1080P) LED TV (X325BV-FSR)" at Walmart for $118 and she'll want to do more than she does now!
All of that is a great idea. BUT, she never listens to music. Even in the car, by herself, she has never turned on her stereo. Ever.

She has an iPad, and uses it for most of her texting and email. She used the computer about one per week, to write a long email, or a letter, and to do QuickBooks and balance her checking account. No videos, or games. She has a little 15 inch monitor and 1024x678 or some silly low res setting and it is enough.

My goal was to make her a computer that did not crash and lose data. So far the data is safe, I just need to get it back to a mirrored setup.
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