Okay. You guys are great. Clearly the collective wisdom is not to throw money at the problem - but figure the problem out. Owbist - in my thread on not connecting my husband's vista laptop to our network, I tried quietly, methodically to troubleshoot the issues - to no avail. I found lots of similar frustrations on google - but no solutions that worked - and I think I tried them all - at least to the best of my ability. thanks for those great, easy-to-follow instructions to transfer to an external hard drive. He'll want to do that anyway - even if he keeps this computer. This computer guy is pricey - but where I am in DC they seem to fall in the $125-140/hour range - and they can usually fix a problem. Others that charge $40-75 - that the uninformed think are good - but their know-how is less than what I find here. I tried a few of those locally recommended guys - and they accomplished the simple tasks but also made mistakes I had to hire the more expensive guy to fix. My main complaint with him is that he's wedded to his biases - he hates Vista - so his recommendation is usually to avoid or ditch it. Our struggles with Vista seem to often be how often we're blocked from things or performing simple tasks have all sort of obstacles - for "safety's" sake. Thanks to everyone for pointing out that Windows 7 is just a revamped Vista. I got my first issue of Smart Computing and they were tauting it and described some features I thought I'd love. DA - if W8 is in process, is there any indication of what it will be like? Probably worth waiting for - or at least waiting to hear more about how Windows 7 is panning out. So I'll keep plugging away on my other thread to get him connected. If I don't succeed by Tuesday, the computer guy will come and fix it. I guess we'll stop there. Thanks. Lynn.

Zep516, Thanks for the link to Dells support for laptop that he has. I have download the driver for him and will transfer it to his computer via a thumb drive. He can then keep it as a back up file in case the problem surfaces again.

Thanks. Before posting, I took the battery out and it was only a little wet. Dried it. Opened the only area in the back I could get off and dried what little water I saw on the rim. After posting, I plugged it in and turned it back on and it is working. I just shut it back down in case there is more water somewhere that I can't get to. Don't need it to short circuit anything. I again removed the battery and one door to let whatever water that may be left to dry out with a fan blowing on it. Don't want to assume that because the computer comes on and Desktop appears, there still isn't water somewhere inside. I'll give it a while in case there's more water that I didn't see. This was quite the accident. I usually don't keep drink so close to my computer for this very reason. SCARY!! Wish me luck. Thanks again.

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