Posts by oklo

The subway station may have a lost and found (or at least an office) where you can check to see if the laptop was reported lost, and either turn it in or leave your info for them to give the owner. If not, you could try the nearest...

The hard drive on my first computer died after I spent half a day cleaning up and organizing, in preparation for a long-overdue backup. I sent it to a data recovery place, but there was physical damage and nothing could be salvaged (and...

Yes, you can install games and other apps to your D drive. I've only run into a couple programs that didn't allow changing the default install path, but have never had a problem installing games to a secondary drive. Some apps may still...

A powered hub would be best if you are going to use more than a couple USB devices that are not low powered. However, that may not be an issue if some or most of the devices being used have their own power adapters. Of course anything...

Quite often new systems come with just a recovery partition on the hard drive, and you are left to make your own recovery CD/DVD(s). An HP laptop I setup for someone awhile ago had a program to make the recovery DVDs listed somewhere in...

Personally, I find a matte finish much easier on the eyes than glossy. The screen quality, resolution, colour depth, etc will also have an influence, though. If possible, try to check out some screens yourself at Best Buy (etc) or a...

Can you stick the drive back in the original laptop long enough to copy the data off it? A quick google search reveals GPT Protective Partitions are supported under XP 64 bit, Vista and Windows Server 2003/2008. If you do not have...

The Eurocom M860TU Montebello 15.4" laptop has an option for a WUXGA 1920x1200 Matte Surface screen. The other 3 laptops (17") in their Mobile Workstations category also have matte screen...

Thanks for the leads. I thought some small portion of the forum members here would already be familiar with quiet mice, so I appreciate the extra effort you took to search. After reading a bunch of online reviews (and forum posts at...

I was hoping someone had designed a mouse to be quiet. Those switches may be cheap and commonly (universally?) used, but they are certainly not the only option to register button movement. I'd mod my own mouse if I needed to, but I...