I am Frustrated!

I have been wrestling with a laptop. I sure wish I had a computer geek living near to me. This is Lenny's laptop which got infected with that windows scan thing a month ago. I thought I fixed it but now I am thinking that is still what was wrong with it. I can't seem to leave it alone. Finally on Saturday when I just had a black screen I decided to try re-installing windows xp. I had like 3 re-install cd's for an HP..thats the only kind of computer I have ever bought (no, one sony) so wasn't sure which was the right one. I did get it installed and it looks great..only I cannot get on-line with it. The network keeps saying there is no internet connection but the computer says there is. Believe me,there isn't. All the other computers work on the network so must be something I am doing wrong. I thought maybe the hard-drive was damaged, but ran chkdsk and it says its okay. May try to call Steve later, if he can't help I may call B.I.L.(that brother in law)named Bill. Then when I am not obsessed with that I am obsessed with Family Tree. Lenny can cook dinner because I am busy on the computer...that's a joke because he doesn't cook much except to heat stuff in the microwave. He is off getting the oil changed in my car so I should be nice. Anyway, the log home is east of Brainard in Crow Wing county. A relative of my kids was born there. She was the first white person born in that county or so the story goes. Her name was Lottie Shew Root. She was a sister to my kids great grandmother, Susie Shew. I thought Susie was born in that cabin too but found out she was born while they lived in Eden lake, Minnesota. An aunt of these two girls had a daughter who married a 7th cousin to President Grover Cleveland. Thats about as close to famous as we get. Tomorrow is WW. I don't think I have lost anything and I really have been good. I could not find Bev's NO PUDGE brownies at the store so can't even say I was eating those.