yes the order is important, you want to start up in this order power up the modem let it get fully lit, power up the router let it get fully lit, then power up the main pc fully then any other computers. and the rule of thumb is to wait about 5 mins downtime, from what I understand that gives time for your ISP to refresh your IP. Anytime my power goes out I also make sure when it comes back to power up in that order also. glad you were able to get things going right again.

Ok this is simple now. Just use Google and type edit registry and millions of hits appear. Look through the first few and you will find many tutorials with good graphics showing step by step. You are nervous and rightly so because of all the warnings about messing up a registry. HOWEVER, this is nothing more than making a correction to a spelling error if you look at it that way. First time just go into the registry working down to the needed page. Once there you can walk away and grab a coffee if you feel stress, or you can make the simple correction to the one entry in question. Those of us who help others always need to stress the importance of caution in the registry because of those who are so impetuous. my ex son in law is a good example, he goes into a computer like a bull in a china shop. Luckily I do not have to clean up behind him anymore :) Now I have learned how to put stuff into a flash drive and save my files. Why? You are going to back up the registry as a precaution, nothing more. To save your work, assuming it is stored in My Documents. Insert the thumb drive, cancel the popup right click Start click Explore Now you see Windows Explorer opened Look near the top on the left side and right click on My Documnts click Properties in the pop up Look to see how large the My Documents folder is and if you have enough room on the thumb drive. We'll assume you have room. OK.... Click My Documents to highlight On the right side click the top item to highlight Hold down the Shift key and tap the End key now all the right side is highlighted right click anywhere on the highlighted data click Copy in the pop up Scroll down the left side now to find the thumb drive right click on it in the pop up click Paste and the contents are copied to your thumb drive - or any other drive you designate. Done! Simple huh?

If you feel brave Minnie you can click Start, click Run and type msconfig, click OK. Now click the Boot.ini tab. Look down the list for 'timeout' and it will have a number next to it. By default this is normally 30 seconds, you can change that to 5 and reduce the startup time by 25 seconds. For any lurker who might like this idea you should not do this if you have a dual boot system. You need extra seconds to decide which operating system you wish to boot into.

Usually it's a two step process - a file is downloaded to your PC, then it needs to be "run" If you're using Firefox, after the download, click on the downward pointing arrow at the upper right on the tool bar. Then you should see a file that ends in .exe. Click on that, that will install the product. If using Chrome, a bar appears on the bottom that shows the download's progress. When it's complete, click on the box for the file to run. Either way, the same. Where it downloads to, the desktop or a different folder, is of no consequence so long as you access it from the browser when the download shows as having finished.