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To: PMS Witch who wrote (87630)	2/4/2015 2:10:39 PM
From: goldworldnet	1 Recommendation Recommended By Id_Jit Respond to of 110653

You don't post much, but you're spot on when you do. :) * * *

To: PMS Witch who wrote (87630)	2/4/2015 3:48:32 PM
From: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110653

I have to disagree. It is much simpler for the average computer user to restore the computer back to factory state using the recover discs or the program on the hidden partition. You don't get Windows discs when you by a new computer. Ya you can download an ISO, but then the user must go to the manufacture website and download and install all the drivers. I can live with crapware loaded on my PC when I bought it, because I don't use it, and it does not take up that much space or slow the computer down. Just delete the shortcuts and leave it be.

To: PMS Witch who wrote (87630)	2/4/2015 5:30:13 PM
From: Siber	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110653

>>A much better idea would be to install the operating system from scratch.<< I wish I knew how to do that. I purchased her computer from Dell.ca because I wasn't sure about buying one here and taking it into Canada. It came with nothing. And when I say nothing, it didn't even have FreeCell or Solitaire which my Mom loved playing and which I want my Mom to be playing to keep her mind active. So I bought a Solitaire game from Big Fish Games but it's loaded with hundreds of solitaire games that even I can't figure out. Which brings up a whole other issue of the computers. Why is Dell.ca so different from Dell.com? Why is Amazon.ca so vastly different from Amazon.com? Why are the actual computers so different? Her Windows 7 Dell is nothing like my own Dell. The computer before that was HP XP and, again, totally different from my own HP. It makes no sense. They're all manufactured in the same place. But back to her computer coming with nothing. I knew, from my mother's computer habits, to make up a restore disk. I took over some of my blank disks of the kind I have always used on my computers (including Dell). They did not work! So I didn't do it. All I have to rely on now is whatever is on her computer to reset it. Actually, I think I'll just take it to the Geeks and let them figure it out. She'll just have to do without a computer for a few days, which carries it's own nightmare.