i spent the last 3 days trying to wipe out the memory of my computer and restart everything from a clean slate. over the years, we have accumulated too much deadweight that the computer was running laggard. erasing files, pictures and unnecessary programs just wasn't good enough, so i decided to restore the computer to day 0. the hubs said that i was wasting good time, that i could have paid someone else to do it and made better use of my time. ahhhhh, but the satisfaction of resurrecting something from the dead, and breathing back air to it a little by little, one driver by one driver, one program by one program, that is nothing that money can buy. now i've reconnected my link to the internet world again and my computer is whole once more, and i am one proud satisfied person.