I was just about to post this morning when disaster! For some reason text kept highlighting itself,which meant that as soon as I started typing it deleted what was high-lighted; then caps lock went on (even though it wasn’t) and if i turned it on everything was in lower case, the actual caps key didn’t work… I tried to post an ‘au secours!’ message on facebook and I couldn’t! Help!!
There was only one thing to do, take the computer to the tech hospital, i.e. PC World, which is where it is languishing… I am writing on a spare laptop now,so all is not lost, except the writing hours I could have had!
Lois Elsden 
Well I hope your not expecting to get your files back. pc world suck!
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Oh dear… well,fingers crossed!
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Sorry for being so negative about them, I just never got on with them and there polices.
Mind you when I got mine to run at full speed after wiping XP and installing Win 7, I nearly roasted the Laptop (badly overheated it.) I hope you made a backup!
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Oh don’t worry! Yes, I do have backups thankfully! A roasted laptop….heck… that sounds serious!!!
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Thankfully no, the heat only fried the internal batteries. Had to rip the back case of and blow cold air into it!
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I’d have just screamed and thrown it out of the window! (Actually, that sound a bit girlie, I’d have just chucked it out of the window!)
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Oh dear; you have my sympathy … xx
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Thank you Helen!
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Oh dear… good that you have backup!
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I was panicking, I can tell you!
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In the mid 1940s Thomas J Watson, then CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) the builders of an early prototype computer, estimated that the probable world market for computers would mean they would eventually need to build a maximum of six! As late as the 1970s the then CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation – DEC, another computer giant – was on record saying “Why on earth would anyone want a computer in their home?”.
Luckily for you, we all have more than one such device today in our homes, some of us several in almost every room (there’s only three of us and we have eleven at last count)!
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Good heavens, eleven!
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