If you have Windows XP Professional as your OS, you can use "Windows Movie Maker." You will also possibly need a program to convert from the format your camera uses to the format for "Movie Maker," and there are free programs out there. One of the best is MP4Cam2AVI. You will find it at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp4cam2avi/.
If you have trouble, let me know and if you have dsl or cable, I'll send it to you.
Phillip
And always remember, "Experience is a hard teacher. She always gives the test first and the lesson sometime later!"