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My father has an HP pavillion laptop running windows 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Chrome installed. A few days ago, IE simply froze up. He can open and cloe a browser scree. He can click on the settings button (the cogwheel in the upper right) but he can't select any option under it like "internet options" and he cannot click any bookmarks or type in a URL. Google is set as the home page. He cannot enter anything in the google search box. It got to the point where I decided to uninstall and reinstall for him, but I cannot find the program on the computer, and while "uninstall" gives a list of programs, IE is not included. When simply trying to install IE 11, it says he already has a later version installed. Does anyone have any idea as to what is going on or what to do? Google seraches for IE are, as one would expect, rather poorly targetted. Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 00:40, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Though that sounded weird. He still has no IE. We'll see if I can make any progress on the weekend. μηδείς (talk) 17:20, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
This is what I am trying to do. I need to get hold of a book by Bracewell, Fourier Transform and Its Applications... It is a famous book, all right. It has gone through 3 editions, the last one in 1999. I checked Amazon.com and they seem to have only the 2nd edition which is kind of strange. Then while googling I found this website. The name of the place is PlayPez. They offer to allow a download of a pdf copy. I don't know how much it would cost but the advantage to have it in the computer is very attractive. My question is: Anybody knows their reputation? Is it a good place? Obviously I have concerns although if worst comes to the worst I can download it in my VM. Still I want to ask. Thanks, --AboutFace 22 (talk) 02:24, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Oh lordy, It is good I posted. Thank you for warnings. Barns and Noble (a USA bookstore chain) lists a few copies but they might be all from independent vendors. So, I will be heading there today. Thanks again, --AboutFace 22 (talk) 16:02, 15 March 2014 (UTC)