Can anyone give a brief review of the all-in-one Profiles, especially in terms of a gift for a newbie who wants email and general Interent surfing capabilities. How were the Profile 4 models for reliability, need for repair? Any big glitches in the new Profile 5? Home use only. Thank you! Dean

I have seen postings that the PCI slots on the Intel motherboard are 1.0 compliant. I also have literature from Gateway that this motherboard's slots are PCI 2.1 compliant. Was there are manufacturing change along the way? I am asking as I want to install a more up-to-date video card in the...

I am looking for a new Utility Software package was using PowerQuest but had a few issues with the lastest version of Drive Image and DataKeeper. I have tried a couple but they had some limitations and weren't exactly what I was looking for. BackUP MyPC was one. What I came across it V-Com...

I am looking for a new Utility Software package was using PowerQuest but had a few issues with the lastest version of Drive Image and DataKeeper. I have tried a couple but they had some limitations and weren't exactly what I was looking for. BackUP MyPC was one. What I cam across it V-Com...

Started having a strange problem with my power options in XPHome the last couple of days. I have the Power Option set to always show the icon in the task bar. I also have the "Hide Inactive Icons" on the task bar unchecked so all icons are always visible. I have the Power Option Icon set to be...

I need a portable hard drive that will work in a gateway Profile 1. The existing one is 6.4 Hitachi DK-239A-65 ATA-4. The connector has a socket, rather than 44 pins. I need to find one that will work that has at least a 10 Gig capacity. The current one is 9.5mm and don't know if a 12 will fit...

When I hit the search button on XP I always get the MSN search thing which I find isn't all that good. Is there a way to have the search engine of choice show up when I hit the icon on IE?

Hi I am currently using Win98SE and have been pretty happy with it. However, I think it's time to upgrade to a newer OS. I am planning to go to WinXP Pro. Is this possible? I've described the motherboard I have below. I'm quite happy to search out new drivers and so on off the internet as we...

Has anyone had any experience with the 675 X laptop?

I have an old pentium machine with an Aladdin motherboard in which I need to replace the hard disk. The original BIOS was replaced with MR BIOS 3.46 several years ago as part of an Evrgreen processor upgrade. But I canot find what the maximum hard disk size is that this BIOS can handle. Thanks...

My computer has recently developed an annoying habit of losing the broadband connection after being in screensaver mode for say 15 min. After logging out (Win 2000) and logging back in the connection is back. I have Norton AV and IS running and up-to-date. I have tried virus scans and found...

Help! I'm having a problem with my Gateway Profile 4XL display, and I'm not getting anywhere with Gateway's tech support (beyond "you'll have to mail your system in and we'll get it back in a week" -- ha ha ha). When the system boots I see the Gateway splash screen but immediately everything goes...

A friend of mine has a private labeled Gateway 2000 ,G6-350. He was complaining that his system was real slow.When I went to system properties it states it only has 48mb ram installed,could that be right? He's using it at work so I couldn't get inside. Does anyone know how much memory it should be...

I have a Gateway ESS 450SE, P-III, with 64B RAM, Win98 ver2.6(?). that used NAV 5.0 The owner either installed a new version on top of 5.0 or removed it manually and left components and then tried to reinstall or whatever those folks do when the do what they do to computers...... Now whenever the...

I have windows 95 and internet explorer 5.5, outlook express is my email. I had more than 100 emails in my inbox and they "disappeared" I don't think they are deleted because my hard drive space didn't increase. all other folders are intact. Any ideas how to find them or what newsgroup I...

I have a 18 month old 700XL that just started having problems this morning. There have been no software additions in the last 2 weeks. Norton Virus is using the most current DAT and the machine has a battery back-up. After sitting overnight off I started the machine. I went to check email and...

My 700x with WinXP Pro apparently has some damaged files in IE and OE. It doesn't fully display images, java, or flash. I've reinstalled Java runtime, but it didn't help. I've changed just about every IE Internet Options Security and Advanced setting. Also, OE doesn't fully display all html...

Extension of Net access tax ban dead for year State and local governments, backed by Sen. George Voinovich, (R-Ohio) and Senator Lamar Alexander, (R-Tennessee) opposed the expanded measure, saying it would curb states' authority to tax existing telecommunications services. Since I am from...

Hi! I own an Gateway Performance d/top- PIII 600mhz running on Win98SE with a Maxtor IDE 10GB hdd but was slow & noisy. So I had upgraded the Hdd to a Seagate 20GB IDE and install programs from my other pc into the C: drive (windows). I have check the settings | Device manager all the driver was...

I purchased a 400vtx back in the summer. I want to upgrade it from XP Home to XP Pro. Through my school I purchase the Pro version a lot cheaper tha gateway. DO I have to do a total install or can I upgrade withput any problems