Aletheia's

Did you ever read, or do you remember my post on my Wordpress about it? Here you are again, just in case:
https://jaymountney.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/falling-in-love-with-windows-8/#comments

My old Compaq is being resuscitated by my son in law because I had problems with the Lenovo - it has no inbuilt mic - it should have, and they say send it back and they'll sort it out but to allow a month... do without for a month??? And remove all my sensitive stuff first??? I think not. So I thought about an external mic and there's no portal because of course there's an inbuilt one, except that there isn't... I need to use Skype, particularly for learning Portuguese but for all sorts of other things too, and am hoping that my Compaq will cope.

I might have to pay for Windows to be reinstalled - I didn't use it for months, it rejected my password and went to a default password which I didn't know and they couldn't tell me. Microsoft are mad, bad and dangerous. Anyway, Andrew says he can install 8.1 or 10 - no other options, which, considering I am paying for it is annoying. So I might have to go for 8.1. I'm not touching 10 - in their agreement they have a thing that says if they find any illegal programs on your machine they reserve the right to delete them. WFT??? The nanny state is with us and its name is Microsoft.

Actually, I don't have any illegal programs - I used to have a pirate copy of various things on the Compaq but only because the first crash and the filter-clean wrecked stuff I had already paid for. But it's the principle of it all!!