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We have always had all our computers in a family area, usually close to the kitchen. There are always headphones if someone wants to play games when someone else wants quiet. Since we now have a couple of young software engineers in the family most of the “Net Nanny” type of software would have been a waste of time. We are nagged about “unsafe practices” now.

Hi Fred – I have a similar problem and don’t know whether it is a hardware problem or a software problem. Both my new 1TB external hard drive and my old one are not “seen” by Windows even though they appear in “Devices”. I am running Window 7 64bit . All my USB ports seem to be functional with camera, printer, mouse, keyboard and even USB coffee cup warmer. Both ext. hard drives work on my husband’s laptop. I have tried the hard drives on each port and took the new one back to the shop where it was tested on Win 7 64bit set up. I really don’t know where to go with this now. The odd thing is that my old external hard drive was initially able to be read by Windows which is why I realized I needed a new, larger ext. drive. The last change made to the computer before this was an addition of another 2G of RAM.