lenovo opinion on this please

rubytuesday

I bought my daughter a Lenova and it's great.

loopy_lass

ok, so far so good, ive used hotmail address to do mail thingy, ive installed avira?
ive downloaded libraoffice.

now i need to get rid of unwanted blurb such as macfee thing. i think ive made a backup on usb, but not sure how to check it..

please excuse my randomness i have a personality disorder and some days are better than others.

regards Loopy

Fightsback

loopy_lass wrote: »

ok, so far so good, ive used hotmail address to do mail thingy, ive installed avira?
ive downloaded libraoffice.

now i need to get rid of unwanted blurb such as macfee thing. i think ive made a backup on usb, but not sure how to check it..

please excuse my randomness i have a personality disorder and some days are better than others.

regards Loopy

Control panel > Programs and features

Uninstall from there

Anne_Marie_2

loopy_lass wrote: »

ok, so far so good, ive used hotmail address to do mail thingy, ive installed avira?
ive downloaded libraoffice.

now i need to get rid of unwanted blurb such as macfee thing. i think ive made a backup on usb, but not sure how to check it..

please excuse my randomness i have a personality disorder and some days are better than others.

regards Loopy

Instructions on how to make recovery drive on usb.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/create-usb-recovery-drive

How to create system image.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/4241/how-to-create-a-system-image-in-windows-7/

grumpycrab

Anne_Marie wrote: »

Instructions on how to make recovery drive on usb.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/create-usb-recovery-drive/

At the risk of confusing the loopy_lass... the main reason for doing this is if the computer will not boot (unusual - but it happens). An optional part of this process is that something called the "recovery partition" is also copied to the USB stick. This allows the computer to be reinstalled -from the USB- to a factory state. BUT to do this you will need a USB stick of at least 8GB (possibly 16GB).

If you only have a small USB stick then you should NOT copy the recovery partition. You may say "but shouldn't I backup the recovery partition"? I guess you should BUT the next instruction from the very helpful Anne-Marie - also provides a very similar "system backup".
There's nothing wrong with a belt-and-braces-approach though!

Anne_Marie wrote: »

How to create system image.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/4241/how-to-create-a-system-image-in-windows-7/

What this does is create a real-time image of the computer. This can be a large image to depending on what you have on your computer. Usually an external drive is used to store the image (e.g. a USB3 external disk).
Confusingly at the end of creating the image you may be asked if you want to create a "system repair disk" . This is very similar to the recovery USB above but requires a DVD or CD. There's no reason not to do this (Assuming you have a spare writable CD/DVD).

Label and store all your media carefully. If you think this is a nightmare, yes it is. Blame Microsoft.

Anne_Marie_2

grumpycrab wrote: »

At the risk of confusing the loopy_lass... the main reason for doing this is if the computer will not boot (unusual - but it happens). An optional part of this process is that something called the "recovery partition" is also copied to the USB stick. This allows the computer to be reinstalled -from the USB- to a factory state. BUT to do this you will need a USB stick of at least 8GB (possibly 16GB).

If you only have a small USB stick then you should NOT copy the recovery partition. You may say "but shouldn't I backup the recovery partition"? I guess you should BUT the next instruction from the very helpful Anne-Marie - also provides a very similar "system backup".
There's nothing wrong with a belt-and-braces-approach though!

What this does is create a real-time image of the computer. This can be a large image to depending on what you have on your computer. Usually an external drive is used to store the image (e.g. a USB3 external disk).
Confusingly at the end of creating the image you may be asked if you want to create a "system repair disk" . This is very similar to the recovery USB above but requires a DVD or CD. There's no reason not to do this (Assuming you have a spare writable CD/DVD).

Label and store all your media carefully. If you think this is a nightmare, yes it is. Blame Microsoft.

Sorry if I have confused Loopylass, although she has yet, not suggested this. I think it's really important to have a recovery source, be it disc/usb or image (on disc or usb).

loopy_lass

Thanks for all info. I have read it twice. It's not gone in yet. Will read it again it's me not you...

I have a 32 usb and a 1TB external hard drive. So should be ok... Thankyou. LL

hatter68

Does this lenovo laptop have an ethernet port at the back or do you need a wireless router cheers.

loopy_lass

i have no idea sorry, someone else may be able to tell you, i am really pleased with it tho...

LL

hatter68

Thanks was going to get this but have just ordered an acer aspire now.