Lilly

Ok long story short, my wife's 4 year old Vista based consumer Dell PC was REALLY lagging sputtering, taking forever to do anything, whether local tasks like loading music and pictures and programs, to online browsing loading web pages, and temporarily freezing pages, etc. No viruses or anything of that nature.

I ended spending hours transferring all the files, pics and documents over to my laptop and restoring her PC to factory default from the recovery partition. That helped for about two days, then it was back to it's old tricks.

Will completely wiping the hard rive and restoring from the factory windows disks (which I still have) make any difference than restoring from the recovery partition? or perhaps is the hard drive somehow corrupted and time for a new PC?

Thanks

Ok, what does this setting mean? If it's about your lifestyle, why not just ask if you are "Straight" Bi" or "Gay?".

My boyfriend just got a facebook account a few weeks ago and since I don't have one and have no desire to get one, while I was at my friends I looked up his facebook, for no other reason then to see what it's all about. Anyway, his was set to "interested in women". I freaked! WTF I thought.

Now he says her daughter set it up for her (which I know she did) and that her daughter told him it just indicates whether you are straight or bi or gay and setting it to "interested in women" just means you're straight. His other daughter said the same thing. Ok, fine, No bigge, right?... but! . if that's the case how come his daughters facebook profiles, who are both in relationships, don't have that information on it at all? Why would his daughter bother to fill out that info for her father and not herself? Seems strange but maybe I'm overreacting.

So what is it? Does it reflect that he's straight or does it mean he's looking to meet women?

I have a limited budget but can get either of the following laptops at a big savings. I understand neither is a high-end laptop, but I'm using an entry level single core laptop now and need more get-up-and-go.

So, out of these two laptops, which would you choose and why?

Acer Aspire AS5745 15.6" Laptop

Processor Intel Core i3-370M Processor

Memory (RAM) 4GB

Memory Type DDR3

Memory Expandable to 8GB

Hard Drive Size 320GB

Hard Drive Type SATA

Optical Drive 8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive

Display Size 15.6"

Display Type HD Widescreen CineCrystal LED-backlit Display

Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Battery Type 6-cell Li-Ion Battery (4400 mAh)

Network Card 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED

Video Graphics Intel HD Grahics with 128MB of dedicated system memory

Other ports 1-HDMI port

# of USB slots 4

Bluetooth Enabled No

Dimensions 14.96 (W) x 9.84 (D) x 1.0/1.34 (H) inches

Weight 5.72lbs

Warranty 1 year

Extra Features Built-in HD Webcam (1280 x 1024 Resolution)

VGA Connection Yes

HDMI Port Yes

ASUS K42F-A1 Laptop

General

System Type Notebook

Built-in Devices Speaker, wireless LAN antenna

Width 13.9 in

Depth 9.5 in

Height 1.5 in

Weight 5.3 lbs

Color Dark brown

Processor

Processor Intel Core i3 350M / 2.26 GHz

Multi-Core Technology Dual-Core

64-bit Computing Yes

Chipset Type Mobile Intel HM55 Express

RAM

Installed Size 4 GB / 8 GB (max)

Technology DDR3 SDRAM - 1066 MHz

Form Factor SO DIMM 204-pin

Storage

Hard Drive 320 GB - 5400 rpm

Optical Storage

Type DVD±RW / DVD-RAM

Card Reader

Type 2 in 1 card reader

Supported Flash Memory Cards SD Memory Card, MultiMediaCard

Display

Display Type 14" TFT

Max Resolution 1366 x 768 ( WXGA )

Widescreen Display Yes

Features Zero Bright Dot, LED-backlit

Video

Graphics Processor / Vendor Intel HD Graphics

Audio

Audio Output Sound card

Notebook Camera

Camera Type Integrated

Sensor Resolution 0.3 Megapixel

Input Device(s)

Type Keyboard, touchpad

Networking

Networking Network adapter

Wireless LAN Supported Yes

Data Link Protocol Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n

Compliant Standards IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n

Expansion / Connectivity

Expansion Slots Total (Free) 2 memory - SO DIMM 204-pin

Interfaces 1 x headphones - output - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm 1 x network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T - RJ-45 3 x Hi-Speed USB - 4 pin USB Type A 1 x display / video - VGA - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15) 1 x display / video - HDMI - 19 pin HDMI Type A

Power

Power Device External

Battery

Technology 6-cell

Installed Qty 1

Operating System / Software

OS Provided Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition

Ok, here we go. I have the latest version of Firefox.

In order to prevent bookmarks from showing in your "awesome" bar or "amazing" bar (or whatever they call it now) when you type you simply go to tools/options/privacy/location bar and pick what you want or don't want Firefox to suggest in the location bar. Simple right?

Choices:

Show history and bookmarks

Show History

Show Nothing

I set it to show "history" only. Yet is still shows my bookmarks and it's driving me insane! No matter what I do, i.e. clear cache, restart Firefox, restart my PC, etc., bookmark suggestions just keep appearing. What am I doing wrong??????????????

I haven't signed in to my old hotmail account in over two years because I forgot my password. Hot mail says they delete inactive accounts after so many days (90 or 120 or 210). I can still go through the retrieve my password steps and it asks me my location, zip and secret question (which I forget the answer to!). I really don't need to access the account but I'm just wondering why it's still active after over two years of non use.