You're back! - feeling much better in body (if not entirely in laptop), I hope?

::shivers on your behalf:: Reinstall Windows, and every other app on at a time -- ouch! There are no words adequate for that level of frustration. ...Well, there are, I guess, but they aren't notably polite. But if you have a browser and Word, the truly basic functions of life can continue, at least. WIP's and suchlike....