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Blaine
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Hello everyone, i just recently coerced my mother into buying a new macbook pro after growing very tired of cleaning spyware, viruses, and other random crap off of her windows laptop for years now. Unfortunately she has had the computer for at least 2 months now and complains daily about how difficult it is to do anything on it, and being that she is far from a computer expert i can see why she is having trouble. Simple things like installing a program are very troubling and i am ending up having to do even more for her now with OSX than i did with windows. When she try's to install an application it has to mount it first as an image which appears on the desktop which she definitely doesn’t understand, and sometimes after the program is installed it doesn’t show up in the launch bar at the bottom so i end up having to dig through the hard drive to find the .exe and manually add it to the launcher...how is this supposed to be easier than everything showing up in Start > Programs?? Don’t get me wrong i like OSX and how it operates myself as a fairly proficient computer user who has run linux for years etc, but for someone who isn’t very knowledgeable OSX seems to make the simplest things very complicated. I realize this has turned into a rant and i'll probably get flamed but the main reason for posting this was to ask if anyone knows of any websites/literature out there that will quickly and easily explain to a new user how to perform the most basic of tasks under OSX, because at this rate she is almost to the point of having me put windows XP on it and removing OSX completely because she needs the computer for work and cant function properly not knowing how to use it.