Owbist and azbound... Following your advice, I had Belarc do a computer profile summary of my laptop. I do see a product key listed with this endnote: "e. This may be the manufacturer's factory installed product key rather than yours. You can change it to your product key using the procedure at http://www.belarc.com/msproductkeys.html." I followed the link to change my product key, but alas, the operating systems listed only went to Windows 7. I've been on google for an hour and can only find dead links on how to do this in Win 8.1. Laptop was purchased online BestBuy so I doubt the store will help me. I will check their site or contact the store today if I get the chance. How big an issue is this if I leave what seems to be the factory installed product key as is?

This exercise may help too, Windows 7 and Vista From the Start menu, select Control Panel, or Settings and then Control Panel.Double-click Network and Sharing Center. From the list of tasks on the left, click Change adapter settings (in Windows 7), or Manage network connections (in Vista). For a wired network connection, right-click Local Area Connection, and then select Properties. For a wireless network connection, right-click Wireless Network Connection, and then select Properties. From the Networking tab, click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), make sure it is checked, and then click Properties. Click Obtain an IP Address Automatically, and then click OK.

Hi, I also agree that there is nothing really to worry about the new attention or interest. Parents who abandon their kids live with guilt, and his action may actually be driven more by the guilt and trying hard "to make up" for what he has lost. Also, does he have any other older or younger daughter. If not, then that is also another factor. Men generally tend to dote on their daughters, hence the stronger attention. Given that you are currently going through some marital problems and going through counseling, you might naturally find the renewed attention concerning (because you might think he now has a new love interest, possibly replacing his interest in you), hence the natural tendency to be concerned about this. Indeed, he might find the contact with the daughter a convenient, though unjustifiable, diversion from the marital problems. Re secret phone calls, how do you define secret ? Does he talk to her in your presence? Are you included in the conversation? Does he hand you the phone to say hello with the daughter? I would agree though that there is a difference between expressing parental love and seeming flirtations. And if indeed, some of his actions can be considered flirtatious, then there is concern. Try talking to him. Don't push, but try to see if you all can enjoy some activities together. See if you can invite the daughter home and watch their actions/reactions. All the best - DrPax

You probably know this but the power buttons are usually "programmable" so to speak. They can either be set to "Put to sleep" or "Power off" when pressed. I've seen it where they're set to "Put to sleep", and I've thought the computer was off, but it was actually in Sleep mode, and came right out of sleep when pressed again. I have to remember to hold the Pwr button down for 4 seconds to make it actually power off. That the monitor won't come out of sleep is a little mysterious but somehow telling - but of what I'm not totally sure. It needs to get a signal from the mobo, but the mobo needs to get power from the PSU. So which one is causing the problem ? Hard to say. What if you use the Linux live cd, and choose "Restart" - will it then restart ? But that would only rule out some kind of problem with your Windows OS, and we're not thinking that's the problem anyway. The thing about putting a drive in a new computer, is that the mass storage drivers are loaded very early on, and that's what a "universal restore" feature is made to handle. All the other hardware will probably be identified in the boot process, and if the necessary drivers are not found, you can install them later. But there's usually no easy way to do that for the mass storage drivers as it just won't boot to the point that you would have an option to supply the correct ones. If you want to install Win7 on a different machine, there is a tricky way to capture all the Win7 install boot info necessary, even though it's an OEM install for that particular machine. I can give you the links if you're interested. I had to do it, although it was on the same machine I think, but a fresh install. It was a situation where I had a laptop with no install disks, and had to use a generic Windows install disk. Yeh, the live Linux distros are fun. I just made a little bootable MicroSD flash gizmo with Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Pupply, and Knoppix, plus a whole bunch of other utility cds using a multiboot builder called Sardu. It really works well - boots anything on the MicroSD easily. Sardu Multiboot Creator Very handy, and gave one to my nephew as well.