Dell Studio Laptop

"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.


Here's an idea: I re-loaded my Dell Inspiron with a de-crapified
slipstreamed disk I made from a retail XP Pro disk. Then I used some kind of
Windows "Product Key Tool" (from the MS website) to re-enter the legal Dell
XP product key.

Of course you WILL need to locate your own Dell Vista key. And you'll have
to use (or borrow) a "clean" Vista install disk. But as far as
de-crapification goes: mission accomplished.

Sometimes I just want to scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"TM" wrote in message
...


Here's an idea: I re-loaded my Dell Inspiron with a de-crapified
slipstreamed disk I made from a retail XP Pro disk. Then I used some kind
of Windows "Product Key Tool" (from the MS website) to re-enter the legal
Dell XP product key.

Of course you WILL need to locate your own Dell Vista key. And you'll have
to use (or borrow) a "clean" Vista install disk. But as far as
de-crapification goes: mission accomplished.

-----Original Message-----
From: TM ]
Posted At: Sunday, August 09, 2009 2:01 PM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Dell Studio Laptop
Subject: Dell Studio Laptop



"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.


Here's an idea: I re-loaded my Dell Inspiron with a de-crapified
slipstreamed disk I made from a retail XP Pro disk. Then I used some
kind of
Windows "Product Key Tool" (from the MS website) to re-enter the legal
Dell
XP product key.

Of course you WILL need to locate your own Dell Vista key. And you'll
have
to use (or borrow) a "clean" Vista install disk. But as far as
de-crapification goes: mission accomplished.

Why bother? The Dell XP disk is a regular XP disk -- no extra crap at
all. It also installs on a Dell without asking for a key.

Apparently you did a lot of work for nothing.

"WSZsr" wrote in message
...
Sometimes I just want to scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




"Misinformation: it's what's for dinner."

"Tom Scales" wrote in message
news:CC5BCD0808F3485A800AC87AC6E7FAE3@Tom...


-----Original Message-----
From: TM ]
Posted At: Sunday, August 09, 2009 2:01 PM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Dell Studio Laptop
Subject: Dell Studio Laptop



"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.


Here's an idea: I re-loaded my Dell Inspiron with a de-crapified
slipstreamed disk I made from a retail XP Pro disk. Then I used some
kind of
Windows "Product Key Tool" (from the MS website) to re-enter the legal
Dell
XP product key.

Of course you WILL need to locate your own Dell Vista key. And you'll
have
to use (or borrow) a "clean" Vista install disk. But as far as
de-crapification goes: mission accomplished.

Why bother? The Dell XP disk is a regular XP disk -- no extra crap at
all. It also installs on a Dell without asking for a key.

Apparently you did a lot of work for nothing.

I actually did it as an experiment to avoid having to download/install SP3.
But, as it turned out, THIS install was successful beyond my wildest
expectations, since it was without the usual "100% cpu usage" problem that I
always had after using the Dell install disk.

So I'm sticking with my story.

"TM" wrote in message
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"Tom Scales" wrote in message
news:CC5BCD0808F3485A800AC87AC6E7FAE3@Tom...


-----Original Message-----
From: TM ]
Posted At: Sunday, August 09, 2009 2:01 PM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Dell Studio Laptop
Subject: Dell Studio Laptop



"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.


Here's an idea: I re-loaded my Dell Inspiron with a de-crapified
slipstreamed disk I made from a retail XP Pro disk. Then I used some
kind of
Windows "Product Key Tool" (from the MS website) to re-enter the legal
Dell
XP product key.

Of course you WILL need to locate your own Dell Vista key. And you'll
have
to use (or borrow) a "clean" Vista install disk. But as far as
de-crapification goes: mission accomplished.

Why bother? The Dell XP disk is a regular XP disk -- no extra crap at
all. It also installs on a Dell without asking for a key.

Apparently you did a lot of work for nothing.

I actually did it as an experiment to avoid having to download/install
SP3. But, as it turned out, THIS install was successful beyond my wildest
expectations, since it was without the usual "100% cpu usage" problem that
I always had after using the Dell install disk.

So I'm sticking with my story.






That's way I'd play it if I were wrong too.

Good call.

-----Original Message-----
From: TM ]

I actually did it as an experiment to avoid having to download/install
SP3.
But, as it turned out, THIS install was successful beyond my wildest
expectations, since it was without the usual "100% cpu usage" problem
that I
always had after using the Dell install disk.

So I'm sticking with my story.



Hmm. I've been on this newsgroup for 11 years and I've never heard of a
100% cpu usage problem.

But then again, I knew it was a real XP install disk.

Hi!

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

Oh, there are lots of good apps. Maybe not the ones you need or really,
but...that's just a detail, no?

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

I take exception to that! I have an IBM RS/6000 7012-397 running AIX 5.1L,
and while the Linux installers have certainly improved drastically, the AIX
installer put them all to shame.

Of course, that's nothing on actually using it. Enough of most Linux distros
usually happens to work that the bits that don't are really irksome. (As of
late, I've been playing with PC-BSD and so far it's so far past any Linux
distro I've used that it isn't funny. Everything has worked perfectly so
far!)

(Sorry if that steps on any toes. I don't subscribe to the whole theory of
"you should be glad they even bothered". If you're going to bother, why not
go for making it work while you're there? And there are some things I really
do like Linux for, such as home routers, NAS devices, and embedded systems.)

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

On a serious note, I would suggest giving OpenOffice.org a try at the very
least. I'm supporting it in a mixed PC/Mac business environment and have so
far found nearly nothing that it won't do. It is used daily with a world
that speaks Office and hasn't let anyone down yet--not even for those
blasted "x" (docx/xlsx) files.

William

On Aug 10, 2:15*am, "Tom Scales" wrote:

Hmm. *I've been on this newsgroup for 11 years and I've never heard of a
100% cpu usage problem.

But then again, I knew it was a real XP install disk.

As was mine but I've experienced a virtually unuseable Dell machine
courtesy of svchost.exe hogging 100% cpu resources.

I believe it's a widely known issue, surprised that with 11 years
Usenet knowledge you missed it?

http://www.technibble.com/how-to-fix...u-memory-leak/
describes the problem I had perfectly!

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Baldi ]
Posted At: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:40 PM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Dell Studio Laptop
Subject: Dell Studio Laptop

On Aug 10, 2:15*am, "Tom Scales" wrote:

Hmm. *I've been on this newsgroup for 11 years and I've never heard
of a
100% cpu usage problem.

But then again, I knew it was a real XP install disk.

As was mine but I've experienced a virtually unuseable Dell machine
courtesy of svchost.exe hogging 100% cpu resources.

I believe it's a widely known issue, surprised that with 11 years
Usenet knowledge you missed it?


http://www.technibble.com/how-to-fix...u-memory-leak/
describes the problem I had perfectly!

Never seen this problem mentioned here (at least to my memory) and never
experienced it on any Dell I own (and that's too many!)