I am working on a Dell XPS 400 which has Windows Media Center 2002 installed. IE7 and Outlook 2000 wouldn't load. Avast 4.8 turned up nothing. Ad-Aware 2007 wouldn't run or reinstall with Ad-Aware 2008. Got Spybot installed and it turned up with "virtumonde.sci". Got rid of it which fixed the...

REFERENCE: My Post ,"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered~ "THANK YOU"! I now remember! You must have been the, "Fine Gentleman" I mentioned in that post. The one who answered my question a few years back..ie. Replacing the C2032 battery~ Excellent health and many Happy Days for you and yours,...

DELL 2400 512 RAM about 110G unused on HDD and using win XP Sp/3 This is a repeat problem, and a very fine gentleman respondent solved it for me a few years ago, but it's back and I can't remember what his cure was. All of a sudden my PC wouldn't boot. Error:: No HDD found, no boot drive...

hi, I still have the notorious OEM Philips DVD+-RW DVD8631 in my Precision 670 system. I can't burn double-sided DVDs and it is a pain, theoretically I could but in practice I have not been able to burn one successfully yet and those double-sided DVDs are very expensive (and yes I have...

This laptop has some CD controls above the keyboard, and Dell indicates the eject button is THE eject button for the drive. With a disk in, the button is pushed, flashes white, and does nothing more. The system is from Best Buy, so Dell will tell me nothing more. The number they provided for...

I have two Dells, both the 2400's. My subject is not about Dell PC's , however, but my utter frustration in trying to get any info from the MS Windows XP, and the MS Digital Image 10.0 groups. I was using MS DIGITAL IMAGE 10 to edit my digital pictures. For no apparent reason, whenever I edit...

Is it true Dell no longer ships program CD's with the machine to be used to restore in case of a HD failure? That would be a real bummer. Charles Ranheim

Looks like Dell is finally having to answer for their unethical practices http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/01/12/daily14.html

Organization: Chebucto Community Net Distribution: X-Newsreader: TIN Frank Slootweg ) wrote: Richard Bonner wrote: Frank Slootweg ) wrote: There are 'glasses' with built-in (IIRC see-through (as in (fighter)...

Does anybody know the warranty period for computers from the Dell Outlet? I see that there is a 21-day return period, but I don't see how long the actual warranty is, if any. Any insight would be appreciated.

Hi All, I'd like to upgrade to a 7200 RPM hard drive in my Dell 1525, can I use any HD as long as it's listed 2.5" mobile w/SATA-300 interface? Will either one of these...

What has happened to the Dell Forums? All I get is error 404 page not found! I used to find the forums very useful. Bruce.

(PeteCresswell) wrote: Per : I'm 50 now and have been thinking abt Lasik I thought about it too but figured that, being nearsighted, it would be a step down in functionality. To wit: ---------------------------------------------------------- - I usually wear...

Hi everyone, I have a dell pc with windows vista on it. I want to install windows xp instead. Last night I thought I would use my windows xp installation disk to wipe out the existing windows vista from the hard drive, format the hard drive and install windows xp instead. But the formatting...

AJL wrote: "BillW50" wrote: they never seem to carry them around with them. Not a problem if you have long arms... ;) At some point no one's arms are long enough. ;)

I have a Dell GX-280 that my daughter uses for a video server. It connects to my LAN via Netgear wireless NIC. She accesses it from anywhere in the house and sometimes has to transfer very large files back and forth from her laptop. GX-280 goes into sllep/hybernate mode regardless of Windows XP...

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.

BillW50 wrote: In , typed on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:25:22 -0600: journey wrote: For me right now the advantages of a desktop a more power for the price, including more storage for multimedia (music,...

~misfit~ wrote: Somewhere on teh intarwebs "BillW50" typed: In , ~misfit~ typed on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:41:20 +1300: Frankly I'm surprised that someone like Bill who claims to have been "in computers" for 34 years would confuse a thin client with...

WSZsr wrote: thanks. looking forward to it now, Great, please post back and let us know how it goes.