Beltboy

^^^ Do This ^^^^

This issue is as @SenZilian says, your PSU isn't man enough, Powercooler tell you not to install the GPU unless you have min 500W PSU. when you PSU and CPU are under load neither get enough power and run slower.

It depends how you want to control your fans, you can let the mobo control them based on temp/load in which case plug them into mobo only, or you can control them with the fan controller.

Did any CD's come with the PC ? You could try this though MSDN copies don't always like HP OEM keys if you can find an HP recovery disk for your system that would be best as then you should have some drivers streamlined.

If you get an office 365 licence you can install 2013 now and upgrade it to 16 when its released properly.

You can't re-install to get another 3 months, the designed it so once your 3 months are up you need to purchase a copy, right now your in a situation where the old install isn't completely removed. Do you have any office software installed at the moment? you could try manually finding any office files/reg entries left behind but this can be very dangerous if you don't know what your doing.

you don't have to hold it down, its just a single click.

Doesn't sound like a signal strength issue, what exactly are your problems is it low ping and lag or do things run ok then disconnect randomly? There are likely 2 possibilities; 1) there is an intermittent environmental factor that is blocking signal e.g. a wire that blocks signal only when there is current flowing through it. 2) your router isn't man enough to handle that you have 3 ms consoles trying to connect to xbox live. You can test for the first by moving your console closer to the router but still connect over wifi and see if its more stable, otherwise it's the NAT tables.

Not sure yet, people have been complaining on the Chrome support forums for month and they only admitted it was a recognised issue a few weeks ago, fingers crossed though.

You don't need a $400 commercial grade router like Linus. I'd suggest something with wireless N 300 at least (more if you can afford it) check you can find config guides for your ISP so you know how to set it up.

Check in your BIOS if intel-VT is enabled, direct-x doesn't work without it as it can't see that your hardware is capable.

^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^ it's most likely either your DNS cache is poisoned which this will fix, or you have some malware thats re-directing net traffic through someone else's server so they can see what your up to.

If you right click the folder, and go to the encrypt settings page do you get options there?

The other BIOS normally has default settings anyway, even if it does keep a copy of your settings they get copied over after a good boot so in your case it won't matter.

Windows 8 sometimes does this, there isn't as much space for the icons as it wants try resizing your icons (crtl+mouse wheel) you might be able to re-size them by a couple of pixels so its not noticeable but will let you put them there.