Do I ever hate Dell

[The Hunter]

After guiding a young lady through an install of xp pro on her fairly new dell, and helping her get the right sound, and video drivers her pc was running great. Today she went to the Dell site, and saw a recomended update for her pc, and got it. Now her both cd roms will not work as it really messed up the drivers, and she cant even do a repair install. She tried a rollback, and restore to no avail, and it turns out that she is not the only one that had this problem.

[Excrement_Cranium]

Sounds groovy.

My last mouse was a 5 button 2 wheel, USB GE. The drivers for it rendered Windows useless, so I used generic drivers from widnows. In fact, Windows even detected a manufacturer driver, listed it in Windows update, and then told me that if I installed the driver, it would most likely fuck up windows.

After all that... I come home one day, wiggle my mouse to turn the monitor on (the only power save setting I use) and I get the sound which notifies you that a USB device has been added/removed... and then my system reboots.

Windows died. So, I proceed to do a format and install, after which, I found my mouse no longer wants to work properly.

Meh... sometimes, I just hate my fucking computer.

[cjules13]

I gotta say, I've been pimpin' files with my Dell 8100 for about 5 years now... Once you reinstall XP after they ship you the PC loaded with bloatware it's been a lean machine.

I always said I would buy again from Dell, but I've been hearing more and more about them slippin' a little lately...

[The Hunter]

The wife was going to get a Dell laptop this summer, but she is not sure what she should get now.

[WE_DELIVER]

I have bought two Dell laptops from the Dell Outlet part of their online store. And both have been great machines. Especially the first one, which has been used from typing a document in Word to rendering some 3D for a TV commercial. I'm really happy with Dell so far.

What I would do though, like cjules said, is as soon as you get it, either do a fresh install, or uninstall all the unecessary shit.

[shawners]

Hewlette Packard.. TOSHIBA.

[The Hunter]

The reason thius pisses me off so bad is because she wouldnt wait for me to do the install, and had loads of problems, and I spent a hell of a lot of time guiding her through her mistakes. IE like Krell taught me, have all your ducks in a row, like making sure in advance that you have all your drivers burned to disk before doing an install like this. I knew her pc, so i had them burned here at home. she called and said she had shitty video, and couldnt change the settings, i told her she would not be able to change them without the video drivers, and asked if there was any other problems, and she said no, and everything was fine. ( she cant get high speed so its faster for her to drive 5 miles and get this stuff from me ) She got the video driver disk and went home and installed them and then turned the speakers on, and had no sound. Another phone call, and I said to her " remember i asked you if everything else worked?" She then drove back in and got the audio drivers
I already had burned earlier as I knew she would need them. Now to have Dell tell her she needed an update, and have it fubar her pc just pisses me off, as she learned her lessions well, and had the thing running great.

[moneoa]

The wife was going to get a Dell laptop this summer, but she is not sure what she should get now.
I own a Toshiba Satellite 2450
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?lg=en&section=1&group=223&product=1370&part=1651#spectop

I bought it 2 and a half years ago and it is still going strong for me.
Very Respectable Machines, Very Dependable.

Also not too bad on the wallet either.
Around a grand I think.

Look into them :D

[ccc1005]

I have a Toshiba Satellite (950 Mhz) bordering on 4 years old I think, very durable and reliable machines. Only problem was the LCD backlight went out but had it replaced by a friend.

Don't use much, just for vacations and such but it still works :)

[Andrew110]

HP is just as bad as Dell when it comes to a bloated computer when you first get it, but I think pretty much any computer you buy from a store nowadays is gonna be infected with a lot of software you don't need. Best thing to do is reformat.

[The Hunter]

As a little tidbit as I know the troll is still looking, it was totally tec help, as Im not touching liver when I have steak at home.

[CrashPeer44]

Hey Hunter All the damn PC's except my main comp are Dell's and I can tell ya THEY ARE PACKED WITH CRAPWARE TO THE MAX!
you may remember my thread on the M140 and its crapware but I guess alot of systems are like like such as HP.

Gateway rocks I must say, No crapware when I got this PC.

A CLEAN NO ICON DESKTOP RIGHT ON FIRST BOOT!
have her reinstall XP again I guess, and P.S. remeber to tell them NEVER to use Dell/HP or whatever update stuff, they always mess something up as you can see!

[The Hunter]

It was not my choice, as i guided her through the new install in a way even Krell should have been proud of. She wanted to do it on her own, so i made a nice list of what she needed, and saved everything. Then I waited for the calls. She didnt mind the little glitches, as she was learning, She hated the fact that Dell fucked up all her learning. My opinion is buy it, clean it, and never, ever let them tell you what to install.

[Krell]

It was not my choice, as i guided her through the new install in a way even Krell should have been proud of. She wanted to do it on her own, so i made a nice list of what she needed, and saved everything. Then I waited for the calls. She didnt mind the little glitches, as she was learning, She hated the fact that Dell fucked up all her learning. My opinion is buy it, clean it, and never, ever let them tell you what to install.

And im sure I would be . . . I have a little present to send you soon . . .

Dont forget the Acronis image etc



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[The Hunter]

LOL, Now I just need the time to get ahold of her pc, to totally secure it. I personally would have done a sweet fast reinstall from the image i have saved. My image, and theirs is soooo different as they have a lot files saved for the nephews, and nieces. They are great people, but it needs to be a clean install, from my image, to be sweet and fast again.

[shawners]

I got an xp install kit.. Its the bomb.. It has full install without being present to click all the buttons, it just starts and goes.. XP lite, takes off a lot of crap that comes bundled with it. I have xp borg edition, here http://hosted.filefront.com/graphitebull/1530141 . Which consist of these.
Windows XP Corp SP 2 Final

Drivers:
Over 1000 drivers for LAN, Sound, Mass Storage, Wireless Lan and Graphics included

Audio\Video Applications:
Microsoft Windows Media Player 10.0
Power DVD 6.0
Intervideo Win DVD 7.0 Premium
K-Lite Codec Pack 2.63
BS Player Pro 1.37
Macromedia Shockwave/Flash Players 8.0
NVIDIA Sound Control Panel (if required)
WinAmp 5.092

CD\\DVD Applications:
Alcohol 120% 3105
CloneCD 5.2.5.1
CloneDVD 2.8.4.1
AnyDVD 4.5.5.1
DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15
DVD Santa 4.0
DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0
Nero 6.6 - 7.0 is a waste of space
Nero Mega Plug in Pack
UltraIso 7.6.5.1225
Open Video Joiner 3.0.0

Graphics:
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Snagit 7.2.1
Irfanview 3.97
PhotoFiltre

Internet:
ABC Bittorrent Client 3.1
Azureus 2.3.0.6
Burst! 3.1b Bittorrent Client
MSN Messenger 7.5 w\ Plus
Mozilla FireFox 1.5
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.07
Opera Web Browser 8.0
Flashget 1.71 Final
LimeWire Pro 4.8.1
Cute FTP Pro 7.0
UltraFXP 1.07
WsFtp Pro 8.0
Tight VNC 1.2.9
E-Mule Plus 0.46c
FileZilla 2.2.17a
Skype 1.4
Trillian Pro 3.1

Office:
Office 2003 SP 1
Front Page 2003 SP 1
Adobe Acrobat Pro 7.0 Full
Microsoft ActiveSync 4.1
PageBreeze 3.0b
123 Renamer
Adobe Acrobat Pro 7.0
Foxit PDF Reader
Microsoft Reader 2.1.1

Security:
Avast Professional 4.6.731
AVG Anti-Virus 7.1
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0.388
Symantec Anti-Virus 10.0 Corporate
XoftSpy 4.19.131
Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6.331
Kerio Personal Firewall 4.2.2
Outpost Agnitum Firewall Pro 2.7
Noadware Spyware Remover 4.0
Ad-Aware Pro SE 1.06
Zone Alarm Pro 6.1.737

System:
Dot Net Framework 2.0
Microsoft Java VM Build 3809
Sun Java 2 V5.0.6 W/SP2
Diskeeper 10.0 Pro
Vopt Defragger 7.22

Utilities:
Desktop Side Bar 1.04.88
Gmail Desktop Notifier
CrapCleaner 1.26
Stat Bar 2.406
7-Zip 4.31
Tweaknow Powerpack 2006
Tune Up Utilities 2006
WinRar 3.51
WinZip Professional v10.0
Registry Workshop 2.5.0
RegSupreme Pro 1.2
Registry Mechanic 5.0
ISScript 10.0
CPU-Z
GameXP

[bobhss]

shawners, all those programs update so much that I find it easier to keep a copy of the latest XP with SP2 slipstreamed in and then install the latest versions of those programs. I don't format and reinstall as often as I should, but I don't want a CD with something outdated that I just have to go update after installing anyways.

[CRLocky]

I got a legit win xp pro and office through school, for 5 bucks.

[Auggie2k]

Dell are the Mercedes of computers.

The engineering side of it is just brilliant (see inside the XPS?) but the customer service sucks monkey balls.

[Auggie2k]

I got a legit win xp pro and office through school, for 5 bucks.
If it's cheap enough, buy it for sure. If you look on eBay, there are loads of legit copies for pennies.

[shawners]

When borg edition came out, it had it all updated and latest, you really dont need to update anything other then dvd copy programs, or video editing programs if it consist of divx.

[The Hunter]

After looking inside the case of that Dell, I would rather call it the Austin of computers.

[Auggie2k]

I hope you mean Healey and not Powers LOL!

EDIT: Hey look, even the Google ads are all festive.

[The Hunter]

More like Austin Cambridge. I dont see any adds.

[Auggie2k]

Lucky you, they're all green with shamrocks. Makes you want to click them LOL

BTW, anybody know off the top of their head the default bypass passwords for the Dell Bios setup?

[uselesscrap]

The wife was going to get a Dell laptop this summer, but she is not sure what she should get now.


I just bought an Acer laptop. I got a 3 year extended warranty, which covers everything but loss or thieft. It's not even their high end model and I got 2 gig centrino, 1 gig ram, 100 gig HD, and more. I am extremely pleased with it, to say the least. I found Toshiba was over priced for the exact same thing.

Good luck with that proprietary piece of dell crap.

[Krell]

I just resinalled on Dynabook? You ever fucking heard of a DYNABOOK?

Well unless your name sounds extremely JP, you probably dont have one.

All the documentation available is in JP, so I had to use my mad skills to verify the hardware, collect the drivers and test the system.

Sucker runs like a monkey with its ass on fire.

If you research and plan enough, you can properly redo any system in a few days . . . so you have to ask yourself . . was that five days . . or was that six? Well . . which was it . . . feel lucky punk?




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[The Hunter]

If it was up to me, I would start up in safe mode, do a full format, and reinstall.

[Kutza]

DON'T BUY DELL. I can diagnose my own comp problems, but need them to do the repairs cause of my warranty. Well, one of my components went out, and it took them 3 MONTHS and a few visits to actually fix. They kept saying do this, do that, try this, try that, FROM SOME IDIOT WHO I CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND AND REFUSES TO TRANSFER ME TO SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS ENGLISH NATIVELY. Then I hang up, call back and am put on hold for 18 minutes, and the repair guy was an asshole, made me work around his schedule, was late calling, and they replace a few parts before fixing the damn problem. >:(

[Kutza]

Dell are the Mercedes of computers.

The engineering side of it is just brilliant (see inside the XPS?) but the customer service sucks monkey balls.

Most Agreed. The way they're designed is amazing. I love mine, and I got my dual core before you could buy em in stores :D. And it was much cheaper than building my own (and I've built literally dozens of computers), pricetag not including software. Just their tech support is the worst.

[Kutza]

I just bought an Acer laptop. I got a 3 year extended warranty, which covers everything but loss or thieft. It's not even their high end model and I got 2 gig centrino, 1 gig ram, 100 gig HD, and more. I am extremely pleased with it, to say the least. I found Toshiba was over priced for the exact same thing.

Good luck with that proprietary piece of dell crap.

HAHAHAHAHA!!! *wipes tear from eye*. An ACER? What a retard. Acer's are piece of crap, and they teamed up with ferrari, which I've lost all respect for now. If they'll slap their name on acer's crappy products, perhaps their standards have gone down. Nothing stands out about any product of Acers. Acers are notorious for bad designs, crappy keyboards, horrible monitors, and shitty sound. Toshiba is always overpriced, and Acer has high prices as well, but I can see how you'd think it was a good deal by comparison.

And btw, Acer's have horrible tech support too. Hell, just google up acer problems to see the fallout, plus it's a taiwan based company.

Hahaha. Acer? You fail.

[Kutza]

Lucky you, they're all green with shamrocks. Makes you want to click them LOL

BTW, anybody know off the top of their head the default bypass passwords for the Dell Bios setup?

lol. Yeah. It's "Dell"

If that doesn't work,

!Bios/CmosPwd will crack it, you can remove the CMOS battery and let it sit for a while (but it will also reset your time), or you could short a couple of pins. Even still, you could just reflash the bios.

And about the dell being a mercedes, rep points for you.

[kokanezub]

i had a dell, wen i boot it up it would tell me software is currupt please reinstall os. i did that and then when i turned it bk on it said the same thing god dam it i tried everything booting it up in safe i even tried booting knoppix in the bitch and nothing happend

i did the following

went and got an hp slim pc

took the dell

scraped it out

sold the parts

now im chillin on the new hp with 1 gig ram 2 gig proc 180 gb hard drive and a sweet ass graphics system

[Kutza]

now im chillin on the new hp with 1 gig ram 2 gig proc 180 gb hard drive and a sweet ass graphics system

That's less than half of my dell system (^_^).

[Excrement_Cranium]

I've got a WebTV and a 13 inch black and white television on 14.4k Dialup.

Beat that, bitches.

[RACKnRAIL]

I just resinalled on Dynabook? You ever fucking heard of a DYNABOOK?

Well unless your name sounds extremely JP, you probably dont have one.

All the documentation available is in JP, so I had to use my mad skills to verify the hardware, collect the drivers and test the system.

Sucker runs like a monkey with its ass on fire.

If you research and plan enough, you can properly redo any system in a few days . . . so you have to ask yourself . . was that five days . . or was that six? Well . . which was it . . . feel lucky punk?




.

I wish I could remember the name of the toshiba laptop my friend brought to me to format. It was not a standard format job. It was originally from Korea and so were all the drivers. I don't speak or even read korean, but I somehow managed to find all the drivers on Korean webpages and ghost the HD, so I would never have to do that again. It took several days of cursing and cussing to finish something I should have never taken on. I feel your pain if that dynabook was anything like this one was. I thought old 98 drivers were hard to find.

[lifehacker]

I dont like Dell computers but the pocket pcs they make are great.

[Auggie2k]

I dont like Dell computers but the pocket pcs they make are great.
And their plasma TV's, very well put together.

[lifehacker]

Their monitors arent bad either but I prefer ViewSonic.

[uselesscrap]

HAHAHAHAHA!!! *wipes tear from eye*. An ACER? What a retard. Acer's are piece of crap, and they teamed up with ferrari, which I've lost all respect for now. If they'll slap their name on acer's crappy products, perhaps their standards have gone down. Nothing stands out about any product of Acers. Acers are notorious for bad designs, crappy keyboards, horrible monitors, and shitty sound. Toshiba is always overpriced, and Acer has high prices as well, but I can see how you'd think it was a good deal by comparison.

And btw, Acer's have horrible tech support too. Hell, just google up acer problems to see the fallout, plus it's a taiwan based company.

Hahaha. Acer? You fail.

You sir are the moron. I'll put my 3 year warranty where my money and my mouth is, not to mention costco's excellent return policy after that's up. There is not a thing wrong with the performance either. Long after you're replacing parts on your over priced crap I'll be still using my Acer, dude!

[Mels_Smileys45]

Dell are the Mercedes of computers.


No No! Mells are the Mercedes of computers but the customer support really sucks, tit. I've built only two so far but they both kick ass! Nothing is better than builing your own. I think I'm addicted now as I am off now to build another right now! Back in 5 minutes!

[Krell]

Packard Bell Rocks!!!


why cant i type the first line in MF CAPITALS??


PACKARD BELL ROCKS!!!

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[The Hunter]

God, and Jorge only knoe the answer bud. I was working on an Acer yesterday, and it was so nice to work at. No great amount of crap installed, other than what was installed by saomeone that should not have access to a pc. Webshots, and all settings set for eye candy instead of for fastest. The wallpaper now says intel inside idiot outside. Cut the processes way back, dumped the eye candy, and that celleron is now running great.

[Kathy1506]

yet u don't help others.
Don't u think thats harsh
:icon_shak shame on u - yet right




After guiding a young lady through an install of xp pro on her fairly new dell, and helping her get the right sound, and video drivers her pc was running great. Today she went to the Dell site, and saw a recomended update for her pc, and got it. Now her both cd roms will not work as it really messed up the drivers, and she cant even do a repair install. She tried a rollback, and restore to no avail, and it turns out that she is not the only one that had this problem.

[The Hunter]

WTF dop you mean, I dont help others?

[Kathy1506]

elllllllllllllllll
whats wrong with u

[The Hunter]

You quoted me, and said that I dont help people, and I wanted to know what you were talking about.

[Excrement_Cranium]

What a strange path this thread has veered onto.

[The Hunter]

Truly, and if I was crass, Im sorry, but that is one of the few times I have been called that. Although its quite possible I misunderstood the remark.

[Kathy1506]

whats good

[Kathy1506]

i saying that cus i'm a new member

[Kathy1506]

yo whats wrong *****s

[Kathy1506]

fuck ya then

[The Hunter]

That is not a good start, and do you think I sit here constantly, to answer everyone?

[Kathy1506]

SORRY
mY BAD

[Kathy1506]

i said u weren't cus of the women with the computers

[Kathy1506]

whats wrong

[Kathy1506]

no i sorry
jeshhhhhhh

[Kathy1506]

yo if u take everything so seriously then why u answering me

[Kathy1506]

whats good

[The Hunter]

Look here, I taught her how to do things herself, and she learned well. That is what I considered important, for her to not have to rely on someone else. Unfortunately thanks to Dell, Im now removing her hard drive, and bringing it to my house and preparing it to be reinstalled in her pc, so I can reinstall everything for her. For free, I might add.

[The Hunter]

Hmm now you see that is my job here. To take things seriously, that is.

[kokanezub]

i say ban kathy for spam and flaming the thread with about 10 uneeded posts.

just my 2cents cuz if i was a mod and i seen posts everywere with no meaning then id ban

[The Hunter]

I could, and probably should, but Im a pretty easy going fella, even after someone says fuck ya to me. Although.................

[fleecy]

is it just me, or does advertising yourself as "popular" seem kind of sad?

[Potato]

I missed page 4 of this thread until about 40 seconds ago.

What thrilling excitement this newb has brought to zeropaid.

[The Hunter]

Kinda, but hey what do I know.

[Mels_Smileys45]

You slippin' dawg! Kath should have been banned 5 posts earlier. Either Kath is 7 to 8 yrs old or just a clone fucking with you.

[The Hunter]

Im waiting for her to tell spud off.

[The Hunter]

Clown, oh you said clone. Naw never happen, but as Im a bit bored this evening, what the heck.

[The Hunter]

See ya troll.

[Potato]

No fun with our new troll?

[The Hunter]

It left so there was no more fun. Sniff.

[Potato]

Damn. Now what am I gonna do?

[fleecy]

no great loss.

[The Hunter]

If you want I can unban that name so you can have some fun. LOL

[fleecy]

meh. up to you guys.

[The Hunter]

Mods get really bored with things also. I wish we we got a little crest by our name or something for every kill, so we would know how many we have.

[WE_DELIVER]

Kathy reminded me of CJ....

[fleecy]

not much sport in it when your prey can't even form a coherent sentence...

[Potato]

Kathy reminded me of CJ....
What made you think that?

[fleecy]

thought so too for a split second, but i doubt it

[Potato]

I wish I knew.

[mfgbypooter]

Damn too bad she's gone.

She had my naughty parts all engorged and tingling.

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[WE_DELIVER]

What made you think that?

That lack-of-coherent-sentence thing that fleecy just mentioned....she was into that from time to time.

[Potato]

I can think of a few others around here that could be considered experts at that.

[WE_DELIVER]

Agreed :-)

[CRLocky]

Kathy reminded me of CJ....

I had that same first thought.

[gaining]

she needs to crack open the case and make sure everything is plugged in. Then go into the bios and turn on the drives. As this has nothing to do with windows. Well you can also go into device manager and make sure the drives are enabled........... Im sure this has all been said, but im not reading every post.]

Oh, I have a dell 8300 w/2256k ddr and 2x80 ide's with open mobo room for 2 sata, 2.6 prossesor w/ 800fsb a prossesor w/ hyperthreading http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/ making it like a 5.2, its always willing to open up a can of woop ass for me. I also have a delll inspiron5610 w/3.4 prossesor w/ H/T and oh god what a piece of shit laptops are.... A little advise stay away from dells tech support, and sure in the hell dont pay extra for it through the exended plans.
Stay away from the new chipsets.

[Mels_Smileys45]

As everything was dandy before she updated I would say there is no need to "crack open the case" at this point. Im sure The Hunter has everything worked out by now and I don't think he was asking for help, only stating how he hates Dell's and their website support. I'm sure he tahnks you for your time or lack there of (not reading the thread)

[Excrement_Cranium]

I could, and probably should, but Im a pretty easy going fella, even after someone says fuck ya to me. Although.................


"fuck ya to me"


hmmmm...

Nope, you are too hairy for my tastes, brother.

[syntax]

I shudder to post here and admit this, but, I had just ordered a new Dell notebook the day before this thread was started. I now have it, and am finding myself also hating Dell. The machine is fantastic (E1705) with all the bells and whistles, but it also has some Dell software that sucks.

Now to ask the question:
Does anyone know how to remove or stop the browser address error redirector.
I have googled this and found only more people having the same problem, but as yet can find no answer.
If I try to go to say torrentspy, the browser redirects me to some Dell powered by google search site that has nothing to do with torrentspy.
The page says I was sent there because the address was incorrect, and could not be resolved. It also says that I can remove this feature by giong into add/remove programs and removing "Browser Address Error Redirector" or "Google AFE" but there are no programs there by those names.
If anyone knows how to stop this, or remove it, I will name my next child after you, and find a place for you in my will.

To Hunter: Why couldn't you have posted this thread a day earlier?

[cjules13]

I'll say it again... When you get a new Dell, start with a complete XP reinstall... it will remove all the pre-loaded crap Dell gave you and you start with a nice clean slate.

[Burd]

I have a Hewlett Packard and I have set Zone Alarm to block any updates. I don't like the idea that they try to track my keystrokes and what websites I visit, so I block them. It's none of their damn business.

[mp3master1215]

dell is the best company i had a deal for 6 years works fine no problems

[Excrement_Cranium]

You oughtta see all the shit I had to take off of my Best Buy housebrand PC..... I love my shitbox.

[mfgbypooter]

I've never bought a dell but I might buy some weed from the dell dude.

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[Kutza]

I myself figured he was on uppers. Or Californian.

[Kutza]

I shudder to post here and admit this, but, I had just ordered a new Dell notebook the day before this thread was started. I now have it, and am finding myself also hating Dell. The machine is fantastic (E1705) with all the bells and whistles, but it also has some Dell software that sucks.

Now to ask the question:
Does anyone know how to remove or stop the browser address error redirector.
I have googled this and found only more people having the same problem, but as yet can find no answer.
If I try to go to say torrentspy, the browser redirects me to some Dell powered by google search site that has nothing to do with torrentspy.
The page says I was sent there because the address was incorrect, and could not be resolved. It also says that I can remove this feature by giong into add/remove programs and removing "Browser Address Error Redirector" or "Google AFE" but there are no programs there by those names.
If anyone knows how to stop this, or remove it, I will name my next child after you, and find a place for you in my will.

To Hunter: Why couldn't you have posted this thread a day earlier?

Maybe try a different browser; if it's an IE browser plugin (use firefox or opera; they're better anyways).

It may be a service in which you need to go into the control panel, administrative tools, services, and look for it on the list and stop it and see if it works. It can be stopped in msconfig under the services tab.

If it's a process, press ctrl+alt+del to bring up the task manager and end the process.

If it's either, go to start, run msconfig, select "selective startup". Disable it (if you can find it in the services or programs tabs). It will want to reboot. You can whenever, as well as checkoff a few other unneeded programs (don't change anything else). When you next bootup, it will say you're booting using selective startup. Click "never show this message again".

If that doesn't work, to end it for good, go to start -> run and type in regedit. MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE YOU DO THIS JUST IN CASE (export the registry). Search for the names you listed (in HKLM) and delete any keys associated with it (it should be a folder or 2 containing the keys). Not the best way, but should it work. And if it gives you any problems, just restore the registry by importing the file you exported. Hope this helps. I am not responsible for damages, yadda yadda.

[Krell]

Use Spybot Search and Destroy

Mode - Advanced

Tools

Browser Pages = set all to http://www.google.com


voila




.

[moneoa]

I've never bought a dell but I might buy some weed from the dell dude.

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Dude! your going to Jail





lol I had to sorry......

[mfgbypooter]

"might"


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[mfgbypooter]

Maybe I should have said there is no way I'd buy a Dell unless I was as stoned as the Dell dude.

*

[gaining]

As everything was dandy before she updated I would say there is no need to "crack open the case" at this point. Im sure The Hunter has everything worked out by now and I don't think he was asking for help, only stating how he hates Dell's and their website support. I'm sure he tahnks you for your time or lack there of (not reading the thread)

Hmmm... I looked threw the thread, but Im not a good spammer. sorry, I cant help anyone with that.

[lifehacker]

Hey, well I guess everybody will get all happy now to find out dell bought AlienWare.
Here is the story: http://www.theregister.com/2006/03/23/dell_buys_alienware/

[syntax]

Thanx much for your replies.
Will try Krells suggestion.
I installed firefox already to solve this problem.
May you get a softer cloud in Heaven, or a warmer spot in Hell ( whichever you might prefer ).