ASUS I've had an Asus PC EEe thingy for a couple of years now, it works but is so slow as to drive one mad. It is bottom of the range with regard to RAM, so I asked my IT "expert" to upgrade it. He bought another RAM chip for me, then discovered that it wasn't 'plug and play' and couldn't instal it. I approached Asus and they confirmed, tough, you have to live with what you have, that model can't be jupgraded, why not buy the ............. well you know.
I'm told that part of my slow problem is the Trend Micro Titanium anti-virus programme, that is resource hungry, but I've just renewed for another year, so will live with it until I can give it the Heave-Ho and find something cheaper, or free !
Win 8 Passwords. I successfully installed Win 8.1 on my primary laptop, and selected the no password option, but recently wanted to send an e-mail to a hotel that has overcharged me on a credit card transaction. The only way I could do so was to send a "message" on the generic website of the hotel chain - Accor.
To do so I was forced to open a Microsoft Account ( !$^&)^)_*_!!) I then discovered that as an "Administrator" I now have to enter a password every time I re-boot the computer ( tho' I have managed to avoid that when re-opening from 'sleep' - so I never turn the bloody thing off now ) I've also found an option to use a simple PiN instead of a password, so 1234 it is - every time I re-start. Grrrrrrr
Why The F*** Can't They Leave Stuff Alone.