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I own about 15 Dells right now and ALWAYS order Dells. I'm sure there are a lot of other good ones out there but I have had super good luck with Dells. I've had probably five laptops from Dell and only one problem. I called them up and they were there the next day replacing the part. Service is so important when it comes to a business computer. You don't want to be down very long. I had a server hard drive crash a couple years ago on a Raid system and they were out within 4 hours and had my office back up and running.
Doug Burger, a.k.a. Mr. Toma
The Toma Group
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I personally will never purchase another Dell product. I purchased a new Dell laptop a year ago. Within 2 months, the mother board died. After having me take apart the computer while on the phone with me, they sent a tech here to replace my mother board. With in 5 minutes of him leaving, it died again. I then had to send it in to Dell 8 times. Each time it would come back inoperable. I was getting very used to using my son's HP in the meantime. After many calls, e-mails, etc. I thought the issue was resolved when they were going to send me a floor model with all features that I had paid for in the original one. They sent one with Vista instead, which didn't have Word, and it has a broken key. When I called about this, I was told that my 1year warranty expired with the first one and that there was nothing that they could do.
Robin Porche / REALTOR
ABR, SRS, e-PRO
LaRussa Real Estate
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I have a Dell Inspiron 4000 (laptop) with a large number of items in the
start up menu (they seem to be related to the fact that it is a laptop such
as the touch pad, etc.). Some time ago someone provided a link to a site
where you could see what each program does and whether it is "critical" or
not and these seemed to be important.
In general, should a laptop have a larger number of programs running at
startup or is this able to be changed? I am running Windows 98SE and the
laptop takes a long time to boot up. I have read that I can disable
programs one at a time to see if they are necessary and wonder if this plan
works as well with a laptop as with a desktop.
Andrew Wetzel
andrew@AndrewWetzel.com
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You can almost always remove everything from the "startup" folder under the
start menu. What you have to be a little more cautious about removing is
"Run" items in the registry. But since I only shutdown the computer once per
month, removing those items isn't as important to me as they used to be.
After a reboot, I go and kill any processes that I don't need running
anyway.
XP doesn't need to be shut down, or even hibernated. I use standby every
single day, many times per day. I have done so for the past 5 years just
fine. Battery life hasn't suffered any more so than any other method, and I
can start using my laptop in just seconds, any time of the day. I don't know
why people still shutdown or hibernate, besides for a longer period of time,
such as longer than 1 day. But if you're out longer than a day, your inbox
is piling up with RT ;)
http://www.eldergeek.com has info on critical processes, etc.
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