Posts by hiloguy

I've been using my old Toshiba 1135 with Ubuntu. My granddaughter wants a laptop so I thought I'd just re-install the original W-XP disc set (3 CDs) for her. The first CD announced that it would format the drive and I said...

This is the generic notebook that gets used for email and day-to-day Internet stuff. I's running XP Home and has few apps running on it at all. I'm thinking I should just reformat the HD and start over. All the data is on a separate...

Did a repair re-install of XP, re-installed the drivers, got the latest Flash and Java updates and activated ActiveX. Same problem. Just the background from every Web page is missing, which on most is not an issue, but if the...

The OS is XP-Pro. The only thing I've tried is to eliminate any restrictions in the tools of both IE and Firefox. Didn't change anything. In addition to not displaying backgrounds of Web sites, sometimes there are buttons or other...

It shouldn't matter what kind of PC notebook you use to run Linux. The thing is, why do you want to run Linux when you're sure you want all those MS apps? OK, if you insist, I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 on my notebook (happens to be a...

You convinced me. At least I have the chance to keep it intact on this computer! Thanks!

Just a quickie here: My m1530 is the T9300 which I have read on this forum several times runs coolest. I have never experienced anywhere near the heat I get from other laptops. It actually runs surprisingly cool. The display is the...

I don't get what all the fuss is about keeping pqservice. I recently bought a new Dell XPS M1530 and immediately wiped the drive and installed a new copy of XP-PRO (it came with Vista). I had people look at me in horror when I told...

Quote: Originally Posted by MichelleG just don't mess with pqservice, should be fine. Good point. So what would be the best way to partition the drive on this out-of-the-box netbook to make sure I didn't mess...

I just bought an AOA150 netbook with XP and the 160 Gb HDD. Can I do a regular partition with Partition Magic on this unit as I would with any other XP computer? I'm concerned that maybe the version of XP might be so specific to this...