I am sorry, I am obviously not as computer saavy as you are. Pardon my ignorance and stupidity. I have a router WIRED to my main desktop computer. My old laptop was WIRELESSLY hooked up to it. I don't know how to WIRELESSLY connect my new laptop to my own router, I have never done it before. I need someone to walk me through the steps of finding my WIRELESS source. A "source" is what the computer calls the choice of routers that show up on a list of routers near me (all through Verizon) that I can hookup to, but I do not want to do that, I want to use my own non-Verizon router which is not listed when I try to connect. I hope this helps you, and again I apologize for being so stupid with this. Whatever happened to the people on this forum who understood that not all of us are computer literate and that is the reason we come here: for answers, not to be belittled by those who are more knowledgeable?

Online videos hanging could well be to do with your connection to your provider. When watching a video that starts to hang just click the pause button for a few seconds to allow the buffer to build. You should see the cache continue to build then click to play again. While it does not correct the DVD problem you might consider an external DVD player/burner. Some listed below to give you a price spread. Did you try anything that Bob suggested above? Is the Time Warner program a full anti virus and anti malware combination or purely anti virus? Here is a link that might be useful: Sampling of external DVD player/burner

There's nothing wrong with Vista and I think you should look a little deeper for your problem. I went with my girlfriend last week and she purchased a Toshiba Satellite laptop with Vista Home Basic Edition, 2GB RAM, 200GB Hard drive. First thing I did was remove Norton 360 through control panal/uninstall and then install AVG Anti-Virus. She wanted Photoshop installed, no problem. Next was Microsoft Office 2007, started installing and bam computer shuts down completely. I think heat, you know that they are always warm on the bottom, but no as long as there is a little clearance on the bottom for air, they'll run for hours and days on end. Decided to uninstall the trial of the preinstalled Student Microsoft Office thinking there was a conflict with the Pro version I was trying to install, went to control panel/uninstall and tried to remove the student version, bam again computer shuts down completely. Did a search on the internet for vista shuts down and the best info I could find was that it's programs running in the background causing conflicts. I remembered the Norton Removal Tool and downloaded, ran and removed all traces. Went to msconfig and took a look at the programs running at startup and thus running in the background, installed CCleaner ccsetup209_slim.exe, my preferred tool (Tools/Startup) for disabling startup and unnecessary programs from running in the background. After that Microsoft Office installed perfect and the machine has never shutdown again. Next time I have the laptop, all the bundled software is coming off, who needs it. So what I'm saying is that there is a conflict with a program that's running in the background and whatever you're doing at the time the machine shuts down. Duel boot is fine, you'll need an XP disk, $100 or less. Make a separate partition to install it on. Really very simple, less than an hour if you know what your doing. With a duel boot, you're given the choice or either booting into XP or Vista or set one as the default. I have both, doesn't matter which I use, both perform equally. First thing I'd do is remove all the bundled software that came with the machine that you don't need, especially Norton that comes preinstalled with the Toshiba Satellite and get a good Anti-Virus program. You should also have Vista Service Pack 1 installed by now.

Zep, here is the first thing that you asked for. Sorry I have company....grandkids and I never know when I will be able to get on here. MiniToolBox by Farbar Ran by BB (administrator) on 18-11-2011 at 11:32:47 Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 (X64) *************************************************************************** ========================= Event log errors: =============================== Application errors: ================== Error: (11/16/2011 09:54:17 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2) (User: ) Description: Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: with error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. . Error: (11/16/2011 09:53:48 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2) (User: ) Description: Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: with error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. . Error: (11/16/2011 09:53:43 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2) (User: ) Description: Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: with error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. . Error: (11/16/2011 09:53:39 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2) (User: ) Description: Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: with error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. . Error: (11/16/2011 09:53:10 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2) (User: ) Description: Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: with error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. . Error: (11/16/2011 09:53:02 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2) (User: ) Description: Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: with error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. . Error: (11/16/2011 11:33:22 AM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2) (User: ) Description: Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: with error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. . Error: (11/16/2011 11:33:22 AM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2) (User: ) Description: Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: with error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. . Error: (11/16/2011 11:31:44 AM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2) (User: ) Description: Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: with error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. . Error: (11/16/2011 11:31:44 AM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2) (User: ) Description: Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: with error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. . System errors: ============= Error: (11/18/2011 09:40:29 AM) (Source: Service Control Manager) (User: ) Description: A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Windows Error Reporting Service service to connect. Error: (11/18/2011 09:39:54 AM) (Source: Service Control Manager) (User: ) Description: A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Windows Error Reporting Service service to connect. Error: (11/17/2011 10:36:14 AM) (Source: Service Control Manager) (User: ) Description: A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Windows Error Reporting Service service to connect. 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Error: (11/17/2011 06:25:09 AM) (Source: Service Control Manager) (User: ) Description: A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Windows Error Reporting Service service to connect. Error: (11/16/2011 09:35:27 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-WindowsUpdateClient) (User: SYSTEM) Description: Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070643: Windows Internet Explorer 9 for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems. Microsoft Office Sessions: ========================= Error: (11/16/2011 09:54:17 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2)(User: ) Description: http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cabA required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. Error: (11/16/2011 09:53:48 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2)(User: ) Description: http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cabA required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. Error: (11/16/2011 09:53:43 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2)(User: ) Description: http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cabA required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. Error: (11/16/2011 09:53:39 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2)(User: ) Description: http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cabA required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. Error: (11/16/2011 09:53:10 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2)(User: ) Description: http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cabA required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. Error: (11/16/2011 09:53:02 PM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2)(User: ) Description: http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cabA required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. Error: (11/16/2011 11:33:22 AM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2)(User: ) Description: http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cabA required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. Error: (11/16/2011 11:33:22 AM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2)(User: ) Description: http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cabA required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. Error: (11/16/2011 11:31:44 AM) (Source: Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2)(User: ) Description: http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cabA required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. 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