Laptop/Facebook rant

New laptop and I take it 500 miles cross-country from Kansas all the way to Texas. Did it survive the road trip?

Well...

I spent an entire day yesterday trying to figure out why Windows would start up, and then load to a black screen, every time with no login prompt and no startup image. Then I got into the recovery mode, got into the command prompt, and tried "sfc /scannow /offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=c:\windows" twice to see if it would work. Restarted the machine and ... it WORKED... Barely. Had done 2 system restores on it prior only to boot on the same black screen. Also, I did do a chkdsk for a few of those times -- it fixed file system errors, but it didn't find any bad sectors. When it finally did boot proper, it was slow, meaning I had to go in and defrag the thing, clean out the junk, and other loose ends.

What I was initially trying to get after is why Facebook, of all the places on the Internet, is wanting me to verify who I am when I'm logging in from across the country, or hell, a world away for that matter.

So I'm over here in Decatur, because my niece is going to turn five this Thursday.

Well is this just a Rant or is your laptop still need help? I do not use Facebook never have and never will.

facebook. i hate social media sites.

Curious to know how a laptop breaks on a roadtrip.

But that's neither here nor there, anyway.. Facebook wants to verify that it is you because many times a login from an unusual place/area means someone has hacked your account. They're just trying to keep your information as secure as possible. (Mind you it is the internet and whatever one posts on the internet stays on the internet and can be discovered one way or the other.)