teaching the older generation
 

im currently in the process of teaching my nan to use a laptop, she's 85.
bought her a laptop and got her a cheap broadband package and she's loving it.

she has started a computer course for 10 weeks and is picking up some basic stuff there.

but is there anything out there which could make everything a little simpler?

id also like to get rid of sponsored ads in IE as its a little confusing for her when i tell her to ignore the first 10 or so results when she does a search.
needs to use IE as its what they teach on the course she is doing, so dont want to confuse her anymore than i have to.

any help much appreciated

get off of bing and go to google. You can change the default search engine.

Teach her how to play Dead Space!

Today for one of my jobs I was trying to help an 80+ year old man understand the differences between Vista's Windows Mail and Hotmail. No matter how simple I made it, he was confused as heck. I felt bad, there just was no easier way to describe the differences to him. :/