Spell Check on the Computer.

since you mentioned a R. squiggly, I'm guessing you're talking about Word. I'm looking at Word 2010, so it might not be exactly right (I'm guessing you're using Word 2007 if you using Vista). First, make sure you type a few misspelled words. If there are tabs at the top, go to the "review" tab. Click on Spelling & Grammer. When the box pops up, click on "options." Another box will pop up, and on the bottom half will be a box you can select that says, "Check spelling as you type." If that is selected, it should now give you R. squigglies for those misspelled words.

Good luck!

To add on to Jennifer's post... some of the Word have the options under the file (if you have an older Word). You click on file and it will have options at the bottom and then you can do the same, click check spelling as you type.

I didn't know that was a function you could turn on and off... I think it depends on what you are doing on the computer. Like with your email, there will be a button to click for spellcheck, or online we have a Google toolbar that has a spellcheck option. The only time I've ever had the spellcheck automatically notify me has been in a word processing program, like Microsoft Word. In older versions, you could just go to the tools menu (I think) and select to run the spellcheck, it didn't automatically underline misspelled words. For individual words, you just highlight the word and right click on it, and there should be an option for spellcheck, but again, to my knowledge this only works in word processing-type programs. Maybe there is a default setting somewhere that I don't know about? You might call the customer service number for the laptop and ask them, or you could call GeekSquad. Good luck!

If you have Office 2007, you need to go to the review menu and then hit the little check mark. That will spellcheck the document you are working on, I do not know how to turn it On beyond that. I have never (well in 15 years) had a computer with spellcheck turned Off.
Sorry I cannot be of more help.

When I use google chrome it is on, same computer but using IE it'snot on, so I think it's part of the browser.