Laptop help please.

Miserableoldgit

Had my Acer for nearly 4 years, last Sunday it broke (it was like a power surge and the screen went blue saying something about "Kernal").
Long story short, Hard Disk broke got new one fixed (£75 all in). Working fine now, but can't put this site (& Twitter & my GMail) on the desktop Icons.
Followed instructions given by Microsoft (Right click on item, select "Send to".....) except there is no "Send to" selection. Probably me, but any help, in easy to follow instructions, would be gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.

NathanPrior

Half the screen size and drag the tab icons onto the desktop

guinnessaddick

Choose Create shortcut.

DA9

ACER?, 4 years old?

get the starting handle out, give it a spin, and wait for the puff of smoke

Here to help Paul :-)

Miserableoldgit

Thanks Nathan & GA. Think thats done it.
Will have to get a new one next year E, apparently Windows Vista is being put out to grass (I've no idea what the fella in the computer shop was talking about).
;-)

soapy_jones

By all accounts laptops are "de rigeur" MOG. You'll be either looking to by a Tablet or one of those silly wrist watch thingeys, it's all too fast for me !

Miserableoldgit

Still learning how to use this Acer one SJ, gawd knows how a de rigeur laptop works.

DA9

Windows 8 is a pain in the backside, stick with vista as long as you can.

Macronate

Spearmint Rhino, Tottenham Court Road.

Miserableoldgit

When cleaning out the cache/cookies, etc, I get the following list:


Obliterate the following items from:

Clear browsing history

Clear download history

Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data

Empty the cache

Clear saved passwords

Clear saved Autofill form data

Clear data from hosted apps

Deauthorize content licenses

I understand the first 6, do I "tick" the last 2 (hosted apps & content licenses) ?
Thanks.