Thank goodness I have friends who know IT. Tuesday, the laptop gave Beth the dreaded Blue Screen of Death...and all I know to do, which is reboot, was useless. Nothing I knew to do helped at all, and it was just blue. Other people were telling me that everything on the hard drive is probably gone forever...photos, checkbook...gaaaaaah....luckily Brian does this sort of thing for a living...Wednesday I took the laptop over to his house during Kids Klub instead of going to the gym like I promised myself I would do but this is an emergency and the only time he could do it....and he worked on it for a little while with the system CDs, and today he brought it back to me at work good as new. Not even a single missing file.