Laptop or Tablet

System

I am old, my laptop is old, about 9 yrs. In the years I have had it, I've spent more hours on it than I would willingly admit. It was slow, crashed, became a problem with anything needing flash which somehow I had mucked up. Temptation to replace was there.

However, after seeking opinions such as yours, I did a couple of things. First I saved over 2000 photos and looked at everything saved and pondered if they could be done without, they could.

So, armed with information, such as what to do to perform a factory reset, I followed it through. I'm sure I am right in saying that it depends which model laptop you have, that determines which keys to press, but once identified this is what I did.

Started up laptop, in the few seconds that the model name appeared on screen, pressed two keys (which I will deliberately not mention) then I think I had to confirm that I wished to proceed with a factory reset, which I did. Then sat back and watched as it "did it's thing".

A message appeared in due course, informing me that "please wait whilst windows is installed for the first time", which was weird, but obvious.

Pop-up boxes and messages came and went, but nothing for me to touch.

Came the moment I sensed it was going through it's normal starting up procedure.

The screen was clear and bright, on-screen text was equally sharp. The free 90 day Norton antivirus offer that subsequently had since expired needed attention, but that was it. All those long forgotten screen icons were back, but they didn't mean anything to me, so rather than "bin them", opened a folder and dragged any I didn't want or need, into it and gave it a label.

Flash had been a pain so decided rather than live through that again, I'd settle for Chrome which has it's own in-built flash system, so installed that.

A week later and I am amazed. Amazed that this old duffer dare try anything like a factory reset and amazed it was so simple. My machine really is "like new" as far as I'm concerned. yes it runs Vista but so what. I am pleased I didn't in a new machine, in fact several people that I thought were wiser than me, are now asking if I would "do their's". There isn't any need for me to as it is so simple.

Oh, I do have a tablet. I think if I had to choose, the laptop would win.

whattochoose

islandman wrote: »

I am old, my laptop is old, about 9 yrs. In the years I have had it, I've spent more hours on it than I would willingly admit. It was slow, crashed, became a problem with anything needing flash which somehow I had mucked up. Temptation to replace was there.

However, after seeking opinions such as yours, I did a couple of things. First I saved over 2000 photos and looked at everything saved and pondered if they could be done without, they could.

So, armed with information, such as what to do to perform a factory reset, I followed it through. I'm sure I am right in saying that it depends which model laptop you have, that determines which keys to press, but once identified this is what I did.

Started up laptop, in the few seconds that the model name appeared on screen, pressed two keys (which I will deliberately not mention) then I think I had to confirm that I wished to proceed with a factory reset, which I did. Then sat back and watched as it "did it's thing".

A message appeared in due course, informing me that "please wait whilst windows is installed for the first time", which was weird, but obvious.

Pop-up boxes and messages came and went, but nothing for me to touch.

Came the moment I sensed it was going through it's normal starting up procedure.

The screen was clear and bright, on-screen text was equally sharp. The free 90 day Norton antivirus offer that subsequently had since expired needed attention, but that was it. All those long forgotten screen icons were back, but they didn't mean anything to me, so rather than "bin them", opened a folder and dragged any I didn't want or need, into it and gave it a label.

Flash had been a pain so decided rather than live through that again, I'd settle for Chrome which has it's own in-built flash system, so installed that.

A week later and I am amazed. Amazed that this old duffer dare try anything like a factory reset and amazed it was so simple. My machine really is "like new" as far as I'm concerned. yes it runs Vista but so what. I am pleased I didn't in a new machine, in fact several people that I thought were wiser than me, are now asking if I would "do their's". There isn't any need for me to as it is so simple.

Oh, I do have a tablet. I think if I had to choose, the laptop would win.

Bravo sir, and respect.:beer: