Free shipping, and 3-year onsite warranty for anyone needing an office machine: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/odg/q3wk12_email_jump2?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd Stew

Ed, If you're still lurking out there somewhere, please consider returning to this group to contribute/post now that the Dell Community Forums have been all but effectively scrapped. Your insight and knowledge was always appreciated over the years. Come home, sir.

Barry - Remember you from the asus.motherboards group a few years ago. If I recall correctly, you had the top of the line ASUS board with the 850chipset back then. Correct or no?

http://www.mobilitysite.com/2007/04/dell_enters_the_no_spin_zone_flash_drive.php http://www.primenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=117663 -Stew

I just grabbed a couple for around $500 each. Both have most everything (including MS Office Home & Student) other than fingerprint reader, bluetooth and backlit keyboard. If anyone has an unused coupon, you can mail it to me if you like. ;-) -Stew

Ya think? http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/06/061006184117.duhk03xn.html

WinXP Home, maybe needs a DVD burner, but a solid value: http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bpdefgk&s=bsd

Resulting in lots of ****ty unrelated threads that don't interest me in the least. It appears that many/most here in the group don't have a problem with this. I assume this since many "regulars" here are willingly contributing to extending the threads rather than calling these dumbazzes out...

.....with 3 just for Vista. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202400629

.....or who wish to add that feature to Mozilla Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/ Sorry if posted earlier. -Stew

....The Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about. Glad to help where I can. That is all.

....great suggestion. Thanks. Very friendly little utility.

.....seem harmless enough. (3) total updates including the standard malicious software removal tool, nothing remarkable at a glance. There is a forced reboot after the installation. Anyone else seen any odd behavior out of there machine(s) after the reboot? Nothing major, but it almost appears...

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200803311726DOWJONESDJONLINE000756_FORTUNE5.htm

FYI - (Image is some 2.2gb versus the 2.5/2.7gb of other flavors). Seems to be much more responsive than other versions I've experienced. A clean install shows a shockingly low 37 processes running at desktop pre-AV install. Perhaps the Lenovo factory image of WinVista Home Premium is/was part...

Anyone else have a Vostro order out there that is moving really slow? My guess is that they (Dell) are getting hammered with orders for both the 1400 and 1500 notebooks (after the weeks of price promotions and, of course, the holiday season) and they're just running behind. It's been about two...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12979532/

-Complex admin password to router? -WEP,WPA, or WPA2? -Changing default broadcast channel? -Disable SSID broadcast? -Disable ping respond? -Complex SSID name? -Utilize MAC and/or IP filtering? I'd like to hear some ideas from the experienced in the group as to what steps are sufficiently secure...

Threats change. Programs change. Times change. Right now, I'm using: - AVG 8.5 Pro - MBAM/Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (manual scan) - SpyBot 1.6.2 (manual scan) - TeaTimer.exe realtime - Second AV look: BitDefender free online scanner

version 7, 9, or the latest, 10. Can anyone comment? Looking for the most stable version to use with WinXP. Ideally, I'd like to use it to create a mirrored/bootable volume on a USB external if that's possible. (Yeah, I know I could google that. I figure I will wind up stuck with an emergency...