Dell Studio Laptop

I have never seen a Dell OS CD that included crapware? This must be an
urban legend that lives on in the minds of a few......

"vbDavidC" wrote in message
...
I guess you resolved the key issue.

You should also make an image of the hard drive after you install the
OS, get the MS updates and install your software. One reason is also
is so you don't use the Dell install CD that may have the crapware on
it.

I use Acronis True Image but I recently tried DriveImage XML and it
worked well. I am not a big fan of running these imaging apps in
Windows so I always do it from a separate boot CD. I For DriveImage
XML I created a BartPE CD with DriveImage XML on it.

"Justin" wrote in message
...
S.Lewis wrote:
"The Old Man" wrote in message
...
"Camper" wrote in message
...
"Justin" wrote in message
...
So I have a laptop here whose hard drive went bad. The Windows Vista
Ultimate Premium CD key is not on the machine - it came from the
factory that way.
How do I get ahold of it so I can reinstall the OS?
Or... let me guess - my only option is to use the reinstall DVD and
have all the crapware install along with it?
Do not mention PC decrapifier.
With my Studio Laptop it is on the inside of the battery cover.


Camper
on my daughters notebook it was under the battery on the
chassis...bloody stupid place to put it.



Trying to make it more difficult to sell the COA's on ebay and such or
outright pirate a machine from parts.

You'll recall people were selling memory panels on parted out laptops
solely because of the Windows COA on them.......

Now such an act is impossible.
Maybe they should put them on the inside of the chassis under the hard
drive from now on! Even better, write it in invisible ink under the hard
drive!
Its not like this prevents software piracy - they have these things called
photocopiers. Digital cameras. Hell even a pen to write down the damn
COA.



You're acting as if the product key is the only issue. It's not.

Some people - myself included - won't buy a system that has no COA label
attached to the system/system base.

My point is that it's a helluva lot easier to sell a laptop memory panel
with its attached COA label than it is to sell/re-assemble an entire laptop
from the base up.

Does it stop piracy? Of course not. Does it make it illegal COA label
transfers really inconvenient in some cases? Yeah, it probably does.

Not sure why that's not obvious.

"WSZsr" wrote in message
...
I have never seen a Dell OS CD that included crapware? This must be an
urban legend that lives on in the minds of a few......



Yep.

S.Lewis wrote:
"WSZsr" wrote in message
...
I have never seen a Dell OS CD that included crapware? This must be an
urban legend that lives on in the minds of a few......



Yep.



Me too... Ben Myers

perhaps he meant Windows...


"WSZsr" wrote in message
...
I have never seen a Dell OS CD that included crapware? This must be an
urban legend that lives on in the minds of a few......

"vbDavidC" wrote in message
...
I guess you resolved the key issue.

You should also make an image of the hard drive after you install the
OS, get the MS updates and install your software. One reason is also
is so you don't use the Dell install CD that may have the crapware on
it.

I use Acronis True Image but I recently tried DriveImage XML and it
worked well. I am not a big fan of running these imaging apps in
Windows so I always do it from a separate boot CD. I For DriveImage
XML I created a BartPE CD with DriveImage XML on it.

Hi!

I have never seen a Dell OS CD that included crapware? This must
be an urban legend that lives on in the minds of a few......

They *do* exist. You will have to work fairly hard to find one, the
complaints from people who bought Dell equipment because they thought they
would get an OS install disc that was "simply un-fooled around with".

William

-----Original Message-----
From: William R. Walsh
ech.com]
Posted At: Saturday, August 08, 2009 1:04 AM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Dell Studio Laptop
Subject: Dell Studio Laptop

Hi!

I have never seen a Dell OS CD that included crapware? This must
be an urban legend that lives on in the minds of a few......

They *do* exist. You will have to work fairly hard to find one, the
complaints from people who bought Dell equipment because they thought
they
would get an OS install disc that was "simply un-fooled around with".

William

My Latitude LT of many moons ago had one, but that is because it was
just a rebadged Sanyo.

On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:27:27 -0400, Justin wrote:

So I have a laptop here whose hard drive went bad. The Windows Vista
Ultimate Premium CD key is not on the machine - it came from the factory
that way.
How do I get ahold of it so I can reinstall the OS? Or... let me guess
- my only option is to use the reinstall DVD and have all the crapware
install along with it? Do not mention PC decrapifier.

Open source software Linux Ubuntu and your problems with micro$oft will
go away.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Taylor ]
Posted At: Saturday, August 08, 2009 8:31 AM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Dell Studio Laptop
Subject: Dell Studio Laptop

On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:27:27 -0400, Justin wrote:

So I have a laptop here whose hard drive went bad. The Windows Vista
Ultimate Premium CD key is not on the machine - it came from the
factory
that way.
How do I get ahold of it so I can reinstall the OS? Or... let me
guess
- my only option is to use the reinstall DVD and have all the
crapware
install along with it? Do not mention PC decrapifier.

Open source software Linux Ubuntu and your problems with micro$oft will
go away.

Except for that annoying 'need to actually run applications' problem.

Oh, and that you have to be a Unix systems administrator to even install
it.

Which version of Adobe Creative Suite would I use?
Which version of Office would I use

(and don't bother me with the 'almost the same clones'. They're not).

"Greg Taylor" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:27:27 -0400, Justin wrote:

So I have a laptop here whose hard drive went bad. The Windows Vista
Ultimate Premium CD key is not on the machine - it came from the factory
that way.
How do I get ahold of it so I can reinstall the OS? Or... let me guess
- my only option is to use the reinstall DVD and have all the crapware
install along with it? Do not mention PC decrapifier.

Open source software Linux Ubuntu and your problems with micro$oft will
go away.




hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa!

'soccer and linux will take over the worrrrrrrrrrld!'