Sunday as July Closes Down

and it went fast

The H / H is back in full force
w/ thunderstorms likely every day

Our main laptop and house computer is a Dell Studio 17 "  - once proposed as our carry around computer   < at 6 lbs, a tad heavy >. But the main tower PC was so old and slow much like its owners. We substituted the 17 " Dell laptop for the tower.
And it was faster and handier.
The baby laptop an Acer Emachine was then the carry around model for us.
Emachine is gone or stored. In its place is the 11" Chromebook by Dell, and is great.

The main laptop has gotten progressively slower. We considered buying a slightly larger Chromebook but on the off chance things could improve.........

I hit the reset feature on the main laptop. As they say
 ' much has been lost - and much may still be lost '

Well, the laptop is faster but stripped down. Anti - virus needed to be added and ' ad blocker ' from Chrome.
I might have made a slight goof by leaving the hard drive back up attached to the Dell 17 ". That would be equivalent to 3 computers hooked up and being scanned by the BitDefender Anti-virus program.
Well, at just shy of 4 hrs, it must have been 3 computers worth.
We shall see said the Zen Master

And I lied. There is a tower PC in the basement. The PC came from a real estate office that was updating. A who works there brought it home and loaded movies on the hard drive and gave it to me as an entertainment centre that could hook to a TV. But since I was archiving old photos for the family - it became a spare computer downstairs.

And yes, even w/ BitDefender for Anti_Virus and ' Chrome Ad Block ' the Dell laptop is faster than before.
Basically, everything but the personal files and internal architecture gets tossed. Windows is re- loaded and the computer re-boots.
That means extraneous programs and add-ons by different sites gets eliminated.
Thus stripped down and sleek

Thank you reset