Huh! Having copied 50Gb of pictures onto my laptop and then to DVDs, I risked putting in my Sony (dual boot) Visa backup disk (first one of two only) and went through a quick repair of the OS. It worked. It would have been so much easier to have done that in the first place, but then, 4,000 photos at risk, I guess I did the right thing.
Now, here's another thing. I now don't need her password to get into the computer. It can't be that easy . . . can it?
The Centrino Visa combination is a trial of patience anyway, but with over 4Gb - yes,
gigabytes of cookies and stuff, it was difficult to download CCleaner.
I see CC now has an intelligent search for most used applications, so it saved some of the cookies. How clever is that? Well, unless there's an ulterior motive.
Time to make some recover disks. Any tips on the best way, and can they be made to not go back to a virgin setup?