What is the "best" (easiest and relatively safe) wallet voor total noobs?

[SilverandBitcoins]

BTW, I had my LTC QT crash on my XP desktop computer the other day.  It was a wallet that I never did the "mandatory update" to.  I have the wallet.dat file backed up on a thumb-drive. I also own a laptop with Windows 7.  Any suggestions on what to do?

Install the LiteCoin client on Windows 7 and then close it and replace the wallet.dat file with your backed up one?

(On Windows 7, the location is C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\LiteCoin)

. I'm on the road right now, but I had the same idea about installing LTC QT on my laptop w/ Win. 7. The very first thing I will do though is make copies of my copy of the wallet.dat file and keep them in a safe place - I have about 30 LTC in that wallet.

[megashira1]

I was and still am a noob when I followed Armory's Offline Wallet Tutorial - https://bitcoinarmory.com/about/using-our-wallet/

It's the shit really, I feel like such a boss now. Safe and secure

[joele]

Best user friendly wallet so far is KryptoKit

Info: http://www.coindesk.com/ver-buterin-join-bitcoin-browser-wallet-kryptokit/

[empoweoqwj]

Best user friendly wallet so far is KryptoKit

Info: http://www.coindesk.com/ver-buterin-join-bitcoin-browser-wallet-kryptokit/

I'll wait till its "tested by everyone for security" before giving it a go. Doesn't pay to be an early adopter with wallet software

[runam0k]

Electrum is really easy and no x hour wait for the blockchain to download.

[hilariousandco]

Best user friendly wallet so far is KryptoKit

Info: http://www.coindesk.com/ver-buterin-join-bitcoin-browser-wallet-kryptokit/

I'll wait till its "tested by everyone for security" before giving it a go. Doesn't pay to be an early adopter with wallet software

That's definitely good advice. Wouldn't dare be one of those 'early adopters/testers' of wallet software.

[Light]

Blockchain.info is ridiculously easy to use given that it just requires a sign-up and the rest is done for you - you don't need to download a blockchain, you don't need to generate addresses, you can set it up to back up to your email/GDrive/Dropbox and the wallet is already encrypted so you don't need to worry about doing that. However, as with all hot wallets especially online ones I would be wary of storing too much in them. My advice to newbies starting out would be to use Blockchain temporarily then move into looking at cold storage options of some kind for large amounts of BTC.