Computer is back

After the massive problems with my laptop the worst came to the worst - a complete factory restoration. Luckily I contracted out to a local company Red7 who copied the contents of the hard drive and then put it back into a subfolder.

So I've spent this morning re-installing the essentials; some of which has been a case of installing and then dropping the 'old' files over the top of the new; some still don't seem to want to work that awful VPN software can't create the socket (I'm guessing McAfee's to blame)

Haven't tried Skype or Steam yet and still some Windows updates to do; but the important stuff is working... so far.