"my laptop frizzled, sizzled, smoked, & died ! ! ! ! "
OMG...I can totally sympathize with you. I got a new HP laptop/Windows8 for Christmas. The whole kit and kaboodle looks like greek to me! Needless to say, I'm still plugging away on my old laptop. I don't know if I'll ever figure out what to do with the new one! Why on earth did they have to change everything so much?? I guess it's bad to get old and brain-dead. But..that's me!