Bernie you can indeed change the boot order in the BIOS, remember to press F10 when you exit to save the settings. After you can return to the BIOS and reset it to the original drive if you wish. Your video card is likely built into the motherboard, very few mass produced computers have separate video cards now. If you have access to a monitor there should be a spot to connect it to the computer to verify that the video card is working or not. You might Google 'video card stability test' and select a program to download and test the card, there are plenty of them out there. You mention that the problem computer is old. Perhaps the vents and fan are bunged up with dust bunnies creating a heat issue? Have you tried clearing this out? If you made note of the hard drive you could visit the manufacturers site and run some tests on it perhaps.

This is posted primarily as a reply to Littleredhen and her concerns with/of her hubs e-spying/keystroke logging frenzy. If you know her, please be sure that she is at the least aware of this... Thanxxx S.B.W. Concerned about your privacy and being 100% certain of it? Maybe you should be running a LiveCD and storing everything possible online or even better a "live" Key/Card with an entire OS, all your software, and all your personal files on it too, if not encrypted on a password protected key/card, then at least on a card/key that is password protected. Back to the woods as soon as dinner is done....... You Are Hereby Instructed To Continue Having A Great Day! Here is a link that might be useful: E-spying in divorce cases, the courts rule...

I had OE for years and I think in the email set up there is a place where you can choose that option. You will have to sign in every time you check your mail.

zep et. al.: Sorry I didn't get back sooner but with my limited experience, I was a little leary of doing the uninstall of network adapter. However I finally realized that at worst it would only mess up the laptop and not the other devices that are connected and working on the secured network. So: I just uninstalled and rebooted. The adapter did reinstall but I am still not getting a proper connection although things have slightly changed. The secured network got connected, but did not even ask for the security password and simply went to 'validating identity' and simply hung. It didn't even time out. I checked firefox to see if it was expecting a password there, as was the initial case to get connected to the Guest Network (where I am again now), but it couldn't find the server. You may recall, that previously the issue was that the secured net would ask for the password, but find it unacceptable and give 'limited or no connectivity. Is there a way to force the network to ask for the password?? Any other ideas? Eventually, I will probably find a way to get a knowledgeable person out to my house where they could diagnose this. FYI, I am creating another post about security updates that may tangentially be connected to this thread. I apparently successfully installed sp3 but 'security update' keeps wanting to install it AGAIN! I was worried I might not be able to shut down to reload the adapter, but I was able to cancel the update.