Heidi, I followed your links back to you album and can't see a way to post the individual pictures on here but am able to post a link to the album that you have the pictures you were trying to post from earlier. Without further ado, here is Heidi and her family! (see link below) All of you are adorable. I especially love your little pancake helper and Donald Duck Jr. The boys are so cute! You and your hubby look so happy in your wedding photo. you have a wonderful family!

Thanks for all the suggestions - I tried looking at the "Filter MAC Addresses" and not sure I am understanding - but I went to the web address for the router and found the place where you can select the option for "Only Allow Computers with MAC Address Listed Below to Connect" but that option was not selected and no addresses listed. So I didn't feel comfortable setting it up as opposed to adding another address if there'd already been some listed there. I did follow the instructions for finding the address on the laptop but the number looked a bit strange - just a bunch of zero's with an alpha character at the end which made me think maybe I hadn't found the actual address and of course that made me hesitant about adding to the router for fear I might foul up the 2 computers that are working correctly. I did try the 'flush' and powered everything back up in the sequence you gave me but same thing, and then had to do it again in order to get the 2 original computers back online. So now, I am debating the uninstall of the Lenovo ReadyConn - I may try that when I get the courage. OR I've been thinking that I might just be better off buying a new router. The one I have is 3 years old - if it's old for a router, then maybe that is my best bet and hope a new one will fix my issues. I can't thank you enough for all the help you've given. I'll keep working with this and trying and re-trying as I have time over the next few days. If/when I get this resolved I'll let you know what I've come up with. Thanks again for taking the time and making the effort to help - it is a great comfort to those of us that so desperately need it. Frances

I support DA's attitude...for the most part. If I upgrade a driver, I do it myself from the device management page and only then if I'm having problems with the particular piece of equipment/device. I, too, was offered the Intel driver you're mentioning a few days ago and I ducked it. A review of all of my Intel products did not suggest an upgrade to any of their drivers was necessary. That was enough to convince me that I didn't need it. Just a personal thought...I think we Win 7 - 8 owners are going to see a lot of these type of updates offered now that Win 10 is out there and being installed for free on current Win 7 - 8 systems. I think it's MS's way of upgrading Win 7 - 8 systems to accept the new demands that Win 10 will make on it. I'm being very cautious about what updates/upgrades I install these days....reading all the documentation/facts that come with the proposed upgrade/update.

High spec'd PC's for the average user, I absolutely agree it's overkill, a waste of money, and not needed. But sorry, I don't find an SSD to be "over spec'd" for anyone. HDD's are great for storage, but not great for running an OS. Will it work, of course it will, it's been doing it for many years. Would I want it as my boot drive here in 2018? Hell no. I've had an SSD as my boot drive for 5+ years and would never go back. I did look at oem machines online last night, and find that most oem's only offer an SSD in their performance pc's which seem to START at $1k and include a bunch of other crap that isn't needed which is rather unfortunate. I know they do it to cut down on overhead of additional models to stock, but dang, Counterpoint though, I also feel a person over 60 who drives like a grandma should't own or be driving a Corvette or other high performance vehicle because they'll likely never drive it the way it's meant to be. BUT, they're the bulk of whom I see drive them, because that's about all who can afford them ;o). Some people just want to buy nice and impractical things because they can, not because they should.