Good questions Houndmom,
I may have allowed the computer to auto-blank the screen when I left it alone to get-on with it, during a burn sequence. If not that, did I also surf? Memory lets me down on both points. That is what comes with age I am afraid. So I will now start again, after switching my screen to full time and make sure I do not mess about on other tasks, in the next attempt at extracting the confounded recovery DVD set and will, of course, let you know of the result.
As for the avatar, I thought I should show a more formal tie-sporting image on the G/P site; so I used one of the 'About the Author' photos preferred by the publisher in the various publications I have put together for the RAeS and the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators, aimed at the younger element wannabes and others I have left behind in aviation. Maintaining Standards I guess, as against my more informal down-dressed roll-neck sweater garb, of my more normal daily shamble-along appearance, as used on the Facebook site.
Don't hold your breath. I am bound to goof again.
Stay well.
Ralph K.
P.S. I never play games on my computer as I might develop an inferiority complex because of always being beaten by the square-eyed monster.