re: the horror...the horror...
The real horror was when we realized that the CD drive did not save our programs and files onto the disk. Luckily we just started using CD's to save files 2 months ago and still had most on floppy which recorded the data. I did lose all my personal, hobby, space, etc. bookmarks and files though and that will take time to find and build again.
I knew I should have bought a new laptop when I handed mine down. Well, at least I will be helping the computer sales this year buying 3 new computers.
SteveS