I don't believe in luck, I just don't think that a thing called luck exists. Ok, with that said I've had some pretty rotten 'luck' with my Dell laptop lately. I have a couple of programs on it that are supposed to catch all viruses, well, they must have been asleep on the job because a virus got by them and caused all kinds of problems, lol. After my wife, Myra, spent several hours on the phone with folks trying to help her, she finally was told that to get rid of the virus she had to do more than to take a few Tylenol, she would have to erase our hard drive completely and start all over like it was a new computer. What a shame, we lost everything! Pictures, addresses, whatever we had is now gone. Too bad that doesn't work for medical bills, lol.
One good thing, we did get a free upgrade to Windows 8 from Dell, upraded from Vista. That's great, and probably a cool thing if somebody used the computer for more than Facebook, email and to talk, lol. I do read on here with what they call the Kindle for a PC, a free download from Amazon, and I do keep up with my kids and favorite sports teams online too, but that's about it.
My daughter's solution was for us to get a Mac, but that's something we can't afford. Ah well, at least I've got most of my 'short cuts' back, I'm sure I've missed some, but in time I'll get them back I'm sure.
What a mess!