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Have you triple checked the basics?

IPv6 enabled on all systems; network discovery enabled; Peer Networking Grouping and HomeGroup Provider services running

From the problem system, can you ping the IPv6 address of the main system and can the main system ping the IPv6 address of the problem system?

Microsoft has a good basic troubleshooter of HomeGroup issues.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/homegroup-problems-in-windows

For Windows 10, there is a Windows Store applications called “Get Office,” “Get Skype” and “Get Started.”

Try uninstalling “Get Office” to no longer see this prompt.

Click “Start” | “Settings”
Select “Apps and Features” on the left side
Find the application on the right side (Scroll down or search)
Click on the app name
Click uninstall
Follow the prompts selecting to uninstall.

Vendors create system images for the lowest common denominator so the image can be used on many configurations. They probably captured their image with the “rear” USB ports enabled and the state configured at that time. Then any system with any additional USB ports, say front USB, gets the default state when Windows enumerates the ports.

Setting up a system for power savings and reliably maintaining that capability is not simple. It is one of the reasons many low power laptops and tablets have only one or two USB ports.

A color scheme other than white, light grey or medium grey to include the backgrounds. These need to include pastel easy colors (for me shades of light blue). And for those who need it, light letters on dark backgrounds. My daughter gets headaches from bright or light backgrounds.

I find that for ease of visualizing what I see being able to put colors for Title bars, ribbons and the various sections of the application make it easier to find and focus on the email contents. Further when looking for the various areas to select that button I need, having them delineated out makes it much faster.

I will put my input for each mailbox needs its own content. If you want a combined view then go for that and create your own view in Outlook. I find combined views a problem. I also dislike “conversation” views and switch to them rarely when I have a huge thread that hasn’t gone to its own folder.

Then again I am a little OCD and tend to dislike any scheme that attempts to force me into a specific method.

The probable root cause here is that the BIOS used by the first motherboard checks each “disk” for boot information on boot up prior to going to the indicated disk and completing the boot up process. If you have a disk marked as bootable and the information is missing or bad, it hangs the boot up process. Now-a-days you rarely get a disk that is setup as bootable and has a bad boot record.

Simply removing the “boot record” or fixing the boot record on that disk should resolve that issue. I recommend removing the boot record from the second disk now so you won’t see misleading error messages later. (Unless you run an OS on the second disk as well.)

The last time I saw this was with an SD card that was marked bootable with a bad boot record. Ejected the SD card and the system booted. A reformat of the SD later it no longer was an issue.

Imaging:
Acronis for imaging allowing for dissimilar hardware restore.
Windows built in backup.

NTI Shadow for just file backup to USB and network drive – I like that it is native files so I can access my documents on another system without installing anything. I could do this with robocopy scripts but I like the ease of NTI Shadow and PST backup support.

How Windows determines if it has Internet access – Hint having IP connectivity to the internet is only part of it.

Open a command prompt and run NSLOOKUP dns.msftncsi.com
If it does not return “dns.msftncsi.com = 131.107.255.255” you have a problem.

In a browser open http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt
If you can open it good. Otherwise check firewall, DNS and scan for mal-ware

Check for registry key
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesNlaSvcParametersInternet” “EnableActiveProbing”

If present, delete it and reboot. Disabling this check will prevent the system from checking for an Internet connection.

Resource:
Appendix K: Network Connectivity Status Indicator and Resulting Internet Communication in Windows Vista
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766017(v=WS.10).aspx

It is valid for Windows 7 and Windows 8.

How to run XP on a Windows 8 PC – Rather than adding another layer of virtualization try Windows 8 Hyper-V

Enable Windows 8 Hyper-V
Virtualize the Windows XP system to a VHD
Copy the VHD to the Windows 8 system
Add the VHD to Hyper-V in Windows 8 (You can convert to the VHDX format if you want.)
Start the VM
Log into the VM
Install the Hyper-V integration extensions which add drivers for Hyper-V (Integration Services Setup Disk)

Here are some sites with How-Tos on the each part of the process.

Windows 8 built in Hyper-V
http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/extremewindows/archive/2013/06/20/hyper-v-support-in-windows-8.aspx
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/get-started-with-windows-8-client-hyper-v-the-right-way/

Convert XP into a Windows 7 Virtual Machine with Disk2vhd (Uses SysInternals free tool)
http://www.zdnet.com/photos/convert-xp-into-a-windows-7-virtual-machine-with-disk2vhd/466650
Downloadable version
http://www.techrepublic.com/resource-library/downloads/convert-windows-xp-into-a-windows-7-virtual-machine-with-disk2vhd/?docid=2145025

Windows 8 Client Hyper-V : Create a Virtual Machine Based on an Exisiting VHD File
http://www.petri.co.il/windows-8-client-hyper-v-part-4-create-a-virtual-machine-based-on-an-exisiting-vhd-file.htm#

For a small network like this I would replace the second router with a switch and end the headaches unless there is some special need to use a second router.The best scenario for router two is to turn off routing, NAT and DHCP so it acts like a switch.

IE 9 is consider a system patch. You will need to review the install Windows updates.
In Vita / Win 7 on the left click “View installed updates” and scroll down to the Microsoft Windows section
in Windows XP click the “Show Updates” box and scroll down to Windows XP – Software Updates

Find the update that installed IE.

MS KB:
How do I uninstall or remove Internet Explorer as a troubleshooting step?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700

Disabling the “broadcast” of the SSID is not security. What really happens is the beacon (broadcast) is transmitting a nul SSID. This is a myth started when APs first came out and has been thoroughly debunked.

Hiding the SSID does cause issues with roaming and in this multi-AP scenario would adversely impact what she is trying to accomplish.

Just remember if the Wireless AP / Router is enabled, then the beacon (broadcast) is on and any wireless devices in range will know the AP is there.

Oh, one thing Microsoft does not mention is that though their IE upgrades have an “uninstall feature” the uninstall does not return the system to its previous state. Each makes system level changes when installed that the uninstall does not back out! The only true uninstall is a restore or reload.

I will assume here that your bank’s web site is in the Internet Security Zone. If you added the web site to another security zone, modify that security zone.

In IE, go to
Tools | Internet Options
Go to to SECURITY TAB
The default zone selected is Internet
Click on Custom Level
Scroll to the “Miscelaneous” section
Find “Display Mixed Content”
Change it to Enabled or Disabled
OK out of the panel
Close and re-open IE

Note on choices:
Enable will allow all information to be displayed in the web page.
Disable will allow only SECURE information to be displayed. (safer but may block important information.)

My suggestion is to complain loudly to the bank to not place unsecure content in their secure web pages. It is a security risk!

You can try something like SkyDrive or Google to share the dump file.

The best way to view a Windows dump file is in the Windows debugger. The debuggers are in the SDK and you can use the online symbols for most dump files.

How to read the small memory dump files that Windows creates for debugging
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263

Microsoft WDK and Developer Tools: Debubbing Tools for Windows
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx

Use the Microsoft Symbol Server to obtain debug symbol files
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311503

Demystifying the ‘Blue Screen of Death’
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc750081.aspx

An oldie but goodie on STOP errors (many of the MSDN links are out of date *sigh* )
http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

Search of MSDN for STOP 6b
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-us/?query=0x0000006b

Interesting articles on STOP 6b:

“STOP: 0x0000006B” Stop error message during startup on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981833

STOP: 0x0000006B “Process1_ Initialization_Failed” error message when you try to upgrade to Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330134

Another good old resource for STOP issues is…

TROUBLESHOOTING WINDOWS STOP MESSAGES