Now that's skill!
I went to unpick my mother's computer problems last night. Somehow, and all without apparently having any idea how she did it, she managed to:
- Right click on the task bar, then left click on the menu item to unlock the taskbar
- Rearrange the order of the icons in the quick start toolbar
- Slide the right hand edge of the quick start toolbar to the left, so that only one icon is visible
- Right click on the taskbar, and left click on the menu item to lock it
- Change several other taskbar settings, to add other toolbars that did nothing she wanted
- At no time did she manage to click on the icon for Firefox, which would have opened to a "speed dial" page of links to all the sites she would be likely to be interested in. This is despite the screen printout I made with a great big arrow pointing at it saying something like "click here to see the internet".
This reminded me that when I first went to kindergarten school, the teacher asked us all to write our names. I had never been taught to write my name - the teacher did this somewhat later in the term. What I did was was to write a series of random letters, hoping that I might by chance get it right, and if so, I could remember how it was done for the future. The main difference was that my results were random.