Spent half my day to patch up Lenovo S12

It all started yesterday when I tried to use my Lenovo S12 as a laptop (instead of the media center machine for my bed room).  Then I found that the WiFi was not working, which is odd because the Wifi was turned on on the BIOS and so was the WIFI switch pointed to the right setting.  After more than half hour of frustration, I finally decided to first back up the machine (very easy, as I just need to copy a few folders to an external USB hard disk), and then rollback to machine back to the original setting.

The whole process of getting everything running properly took half a day.  But I did recover the machine to factory setting.  I restored all the factory default apps.  I removed all the crap ware (there were a LOT) from the machine.  I kept the good ones.  I installed Microsoft security essential.  I found no hardware driver missing.  I used the build in OneKey Recovery to back up the OS partition.  I got the OS Windows-Updated to the latest.

And now the machine becomes a very usable machine as a basic Netbook.  The WiFi is back and working good (it seems like that the problem is on some software).  The performance is, while not awesome, pretty OK for being a web device that runs Windows application.  I think this is a great companion for my iPad since S12 has a nice keyboard to allow me to type and type, like what I am doing now.  The gear can get pretty hot after hours of using.  But then, I seriously doubt that I will use S12 hours and hours.

The only thing that I will take a wait-and-see was the stupid shut down problem.  That is when the machine was being used for more than an hour to watch TV shows on Windows Media Center, the laptop will shutdown itself.  I wonder if this problem will still come back.