Heads up everyone....my 10yr old pc is dying bit by bit so I've caved in and bought a new one.   Will not be around much while backing up everything, then dealing with installing all my necessaries on the new one when it arrives.

I was dreading this moment :(  No more Win8.1 comfy slippers.  Win 11 10" stillettos soon 

I may try to keep this one....get a new motherboard.  It had a new hard drive 2 years ago.Hopefully I can move the extra RAM from this to the new one.  This was beefed up to 24GB - new one has 16

Gill