Thank you, Bill--I guess I'm the worst case scenario then--I'm perfectly happy editing HTML, but wouldn't have even thought about the software keys exposed in Belarc! Installing Speccy as we speak!

Thanks, Bill--indeed a snapshot of the disk management console (or a few others even) would be most helpful, but I can't get it to stay on long enough to run anything under computer management. Same...

I've got a desktop PC (Athlon 32bit, 2G Ram) that no matter the OS (I've tried 7SP3, 8.1U1 as well as 10TP) the machine will run for an indefinite amount of time if in BIOS, or in the event of having...