I just spent a week ridding my Dell 8300 from spyware and assorted Trojans. Anyone have Firefox? Opinions? Can you run both Firefox AND IE? How would you set the default? How does the email client work? Thanks. Ron

Instead of putting the microphone in your mouth you should shove it up your ass. It will not solve your problem but it will clog up your ass so no more **** like this will leak out. "Class_Action" wrote in...

Does anyone know when these new laptops may come out? From what I've read so far, the chips are going to be priced about the same as the current Pentium-M chips. I was about to buy a laptop but now it seems to make sense to wait. Kevin

Windows XP won't boot successfully (BSOD) on the old Latitude E6400 Both onboard and DVD diagnostics find Error Code 0600-5127 CABLE - RTC battery was not detected under cable tests. The CMOS stuff otherwise seems to be working correctly. System time and date in

I've been shopping for an XPS Studio 8300 for months now. I did have one picked out on Black Friday from Dell with i7-2600, a 1 TB hard drive, 8 GB memory, a basic Raedon 6450 video card and included a 21.5" monitor for $951.99. Today I stumbled upon...

A (apparently) motherboard died in my Vostro 1500. The chat guy asks me to remote optical drive, HD and RAM and try powering it on. I got the optical drive out. I got two screws of the HD out. They were tight, and released with a loud ``crack'' when they started turning. Do they...

Genuine Advantage is Microsoft spyware By Brian Livingston Windows Genuine Advantage — the controversial program Microsoft auto-installed as a "critical security update" on many PCs starting on Apr. 25 — not only causes problems for many users but has now been proven to send personally...

Hi group, Dell recommends flashing your bios to make sure you have the latest one, if you install XP SP2. Is that really necessary? I've heard nothing but horror stories about flashing bios, and since I've already upgraded to SP2, I'm not having any noticable problems. Do I need to upgrade my...

I just bought DELL Inspiron with Windows XP pre-installed. But I want to install Windows 2000 instead and get rid of Windows XP. Is it ok to do that? What will be the drawbacks? What if I want to restore back to Windows XP later? There is no recovery CD in the package, but just press F11 key in the...

Last night I performed a Defrag using Defraggler. This morning I started (Windows) Error Checking . A few minutes later I decided I needed to stop the utility so I could retrieve a recipe. I saw no way to stop the procedure. So (sigh) I did the only thing I could...I turned off the...

Ok, in the slow-boot Inspiron saga, I put both of my I6400's, one a month old, one two weeks, in an unheated bedroom (48 F) for an hour and ran the diagnostic CD custom test on the thermal sensors. CPU Thermistor - Sensor range Test Test Results: Fail Error Code 3900:0626 Msg: Temperature sensor...

Through the years as I bought a new Dell PC I would usually find the newer PC came with a newer MS OS and I would use the OEM OS disc to upgrade the OS on the older machine with no problem, example: Last time I bought a new Dell with XP and used the OEM XP disc to install XP over Win98 on my...

A question about dual booting on a Dell inspiron. I am looking at this system: New Inspiron 15 5000 Series $399.00 installed with Windows 7 pro I want to install Linux with the Windows 7 pro in a dual boot environment. Will that work on this system?

I finally got sick enough of IE8 to try Firefox and all I can say is WOW! It's like driving a Ferrari compared to a Kia. You folks always recommended it, but I never knew it was that much faster. I use IE8 because a lot of my business sites only use it and I thought I was pretty much stuck...

Hi I have a Dell Dimension 8300 on which I want to improve the cooling. I want to do this because I know the PC overheats after about 1 hr and is quite unstable. There is currently the fan in the PSU and a fan on the back which is vented to act as the CPU fan. I also added a PCI fan to cool the...

I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 8500 for my son. Now he's home between college terms and ready to move over to it. But we both think we should partition the hard drive before installing much. It is 60 gb. (I think we'll divide it APPROX. 15 GB for C, 15 GB for programs and games, and 30 GB...

In all my years as a Dell Certified Engineer I have NEVER EVER been called out or heard of a SB sound card/ microphone problem "Class_Action" wrote in message ... Dell's Sorry History of Microphone/Soundcard Issue ...

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After reviewing Consumer Reports, I went to the Dell site to order a laptop. No options but glossy display, and only Vista. Tried chat and phone, but they're closed (phone icon says 8am-9pm, but apparently, not). Swum around the site in a few circles trying to find an email address, which seemed...