Hello, I am looking at purchasing either a 6 cell or 9 cell battery for a Latitude D620. The notebook actually belongs to my Dad and he does not mind paying the full price for a real Dell battery. I went to the Dell website and found both. The 6 cell for $125 and the 9 cell for $155. I would...

I have a friend with a Dell Inspiron 6000 that has started to run very slowly. The OS is XP Professional 2002 SP 3. The Centrino CPU is a 1.39 GhZ/1.70 GhZ. He has 2 GB of RAM. The 52.5 GB hard drive is 37% full. He has recently defragged the drive and performed a Disk Cleanup. Programs are...

The machine is an i6400 (E1505), running the original factory install of XPHome SP2, updated to SP3. The harddrive has about 88% of free space. The machine has been locking up, especially when running IE6, and sometimes FFox. The event viewer shows: Hanging application IEXPLORE.EXE, version...

I have an Nvidia GTS 240 with a Samsung SyncMaster 2233RZ monitor and the Nvidia 3-D add-on. If I set the refresh rate to 120 Hz for 3-D, trying to play a Blu-ray disc in PowerDVD results in error 0110, media copy protected. If I set the refresh rate to 60 Hz, then I can play the Blu-ray OK. ...

I know DELL doesn't like the term *netbook* but wonder if anyone has heard about their plans for their MINI computers. There are a couple of companies that have announced they will be building new box's with the Atom N330 dual core processor and the ION video chip. I have a ASUS 9" netbook but...

I'm asking for opinions on whether an outbound (software) firewall is still necessary, but first here's a little background to put my question in context. The reason I'm asking is because I have this "thing" about running a lean configuration. The question I'm asking is only applicable to...

I locally bought an Inspiron laptop for a customer yesterday . (Windows 7 64 bit). It does not include a Windows DVD but only a method to make a recovery set. Has anyone else recently encountered this? The fact that Dell has been one of the last OEM's to still provide a real Windows media...

I've just taken delivery of two new Dells for the neighbour's kids, one desktop and one laptop. Both have Win 7 64-bit Home Premium. The neighbour asked if I'd mind reinstalling the OS, drivers and apps from scratch as, like me, they don't like the trial stuff that Dell bundles with their units. ...

I am really in a quandary these days and would not mind some suggestions. I have been reading this group silently for some years but the first time I believe I have posted here. Just a bit of background. I used to really lust after Dell computers in the early 90s and finally bought a P200...

My Dell Mini 9 netbook has a solid state drive but is too small.... only 8 gig I'm curious if other netbooks that have CONVENTIONAL harddrives can be used on their sides, upside down, etc? Reason is I am used to doing this with my current Mini 9. If conventional harddrives can be treated like...

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1566011/dell-helpdesk-woman-breasts -- "Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."

Inspiron 530-WinXP Pro All of a sudden when I turn the machine on I have started getting a Dell box asking where DSC20.msi is. What is this file and where is it? Thanks

I have an XPS desktop which I'm about to install Win 7 64-bit, my current OS is Win Vista 32 bit. The XPS has a video capture card which drives the CCTV installation here. The card drivers are 32 bit only and the manufacturer, as yet, has no drivers for 64-bit OS's. So, my choices seem to...

Short story made long... I have an XPS 630i just under a year. It came with an HL-DT-ST-BD-RE BH20N SCSI DVD burner. Over the last couple months 50% of burns failed unless I burned at 2x. All types of burning. Also, it's no longer recognized as Lightscribe, so I contacted Dell support...

My daughter's been using her i6000 15" laptop for 4 years now, and it's on it's last legs. We went to BestBuy to look at the different form factors, and I showed her the Dell Studio 15" that I mentioned in an earlier post, but she wants someting smaller and more portable to go from room to...

Hello all. I just got a new Dell Studio Slim this past week and am getting everything configured and transferred from my old E310 Dimension. Anyhoo... I am running Firefox as a web browser and every time I first start the browser, I get this popup that reads: "Congratulations on your recent...

I did a test install of XP Home with these parameters: PC: Gateway Thrasher (about 6 years old) XP Install CD: from a Dell Dimension 4550 XP Activation Key: from a Dell Inspiron Laptop The install worked, activation worked, and the Microsoft utility MGADiag.exe shows validation as a Genuine...

http://austin.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/11/16/daily22.html Just thought this might be interesting to some. I can't really comment on it since I haven't had a laptop fail on me yet (all dells so far).

If a system comes with "Genuine Windows 7 Downgrade software" does that mean you can somehow install XP pro or not? Not run XP as a virtual machine but actually have XP pro. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.