Hi Doug Audacity is the simplest to use and most user friendly program. It is free (a great selling point) It has a forum where tech issues and questions can be answered and also there are free tutorials to help. That said for simple recording and edititng users need only the most basic PC skills. One click recording without any major setting up is easy and placing a cursor is or draggin cursor over a part is about all you need to do to edit. It also has an undo function if you mess up. Try it. There have been a few threads on Audacity a while back in the tech forum you may want to look back at them.