How did you like Windows S? Most of the 1-star reviews for Mom's laptop complained about it. I think that it is a great laptop, but this is what I said about Windows S:
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I finally created a new Hotmail account just to change the password on the account that she has used for over fifteen years, gave all kinds of personal information, and it said they would respond in twenty-four hours.
Twenty-four hours! I would have reset the password on any other account already!
There is no way that we are waiting twenty-four hours to see if the computer even works or if we could get out of Stupid mode, so I used the new e-mail address that she doesn't want.
It is supposed to be easy to fix Stupid, but it was broken seven ways. Apparently the activation system is poorly-designed and it didn't work. I kept telling it to activate, and it merely said "Something happened."
Is it possible to be more useless?
Fortunately, Google told me that there was a Troubleshoot Activation option, which worked, but it did not change anything. I went through the menu over and over and finally the "Get" button appeared.
I am finally free to use Gmail, Chrome, Google search, and an adequate free office suite, which she will probably never use.
Why in the world would I make payments on my word processing software?!
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I bought Mom this
Acer Laptop with an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U for $313.68 in February. She hates it, but she doesn't like anything. I think that it is a great little machine. All that she really does with it is teletherapy, but since the SLP decided to take a walk when Mom did not connect after ten minutes I always try to get her set up, which is frustrating, because she still does not know how to use her fancy computer.
I use it to quickly show her houses for sale with a significantly larger screen than her iPhone or iPad and I am always envious of how light it is and how narrow the bezels are. However, my laptop may be three years older, but I am pretty sure that the i7 is still significantly faster.
I logged her in five times today when I really wanted to get back to sleep after waking up at 06. They hadn't turned off the water when I did go back to bed.
My brother hardly seems to benefit from teletherapy. If only there were a fully qualified speech therapist that could safely see him in-person!