Sue,
You will need software to see your designs on your computer. I use Embird. It is a well reviewed and well liked program. Embird is an editing program that will allow you to convert most designs from other formats to your .pes format. It will also unzip .zip files if you don't know how to do it on your computer, plus a bunch of other things. secretsof.com sells it as does other sites, but I like this one. I download to a file on my computer and copy whatever designs I am going to sew out to a jump (flash) drive. Too many designs on your jump drive will slow down loading onto your machine. I only store designs on my hard drive which I have automatically backed up. Hope this helps. Ruth