Again, you are giving my Dad way too much credit to have any idea what to search for. He has no idea what the Control Panel is or how to use it. I think he sort of understands the concept of files and folders, but it's shaky at best. He just knows he has icons that he clicks for his internet, his open office, etc. Then inside open office he clicks File->Open and it magically finds his documents folder. If it opens somewhere else he's lost. Most all the other menu items are hieroglyphics to him.
He still struggles mightily with copying files from one place to another and understanding that his "data traveler" (the brand name I guess of the first USB drive he ever bought) is also a USB drive, and a thumb drive, and whatever else people call it just to confuse him.
I don't think he gets yet that when he has multiple files open in Open Office, and switches between them, he's not closing one thing and opening another. Same goes for programs. Which probably stems from not understanding the relationship/role between a file and a program. This problem led to the great chapter-delete catastrophe. Seems like Win 10 has confused him again by combining the open program windows on the task bar or something. Also he doesn't know how to google for any computer issues, and I can't get him to try it despite all my urging.
Also I always get the speech about how he's right-brained not left-brained, and he can write a super complex poem, but this stuff is hard for him. Yes Dad, I know - you tell me that every time we do this within 5 minutes. But again, I'm not asking you to write The Wasteland. I'm asking you to do the computer equivalent of a Jack and Jill poem.
That said his attitude has gotten better lately, and his retention is improving along with it. I did get him Win 10 for "senior" dummies. Which he seems to like and wasn't offended. I got him regular Win 10 for dummies first and it was too intimidating.
Last edited by suzzer99; 09-13-2016 at 03:32 PM.