Posts by Tragedy

I'm on Vista and sorta have the same issue... what happens is the touchpad will go into a 'hold-free-dragging' mode. I don't remember what it's called, but I think it's set so if you tap the pad, pause, then touch and drag on the pad,...

From what I read, the bios fan speed adjustment just changes at which point the fans come on, but it doesn't run full blast all the time or anything... it just modifies the fan profile so it'll kick on at a medium speed a little earlier...

You can hear the hard drive, but I wouldn't go as far to say that it was loud or distracting (or abnormal for that matter). One benefit to the slotted DVD drive is that some tray-loading drives will vibrate when the disc is...

I haven't, but then I haven't done much gaming in a while. When I would play games, I'd have the volume up and my laptop on a desk, so if it was getting hot or loud I didn't notice.

I would run chkdsk to make sure the file system is in tact, although if some windows files have been corrupted, chkdsk alone may not resolve the issue. Since you can get to Windows, the easiest way is to go to start > run, type in...

This can happen if your palm lightly grazes the touchpad while you're typing, causing you to 'click' where ever the mouse is (a few characters back, a few lines up, etc). Happens to me a lot (I keep my touchpad rather sensitive,...

Some Dell laptops will run at a reduced clock rate if it detects a lower wattage power supply (i.e., using 65w when the notebook requires 90)... it won't charge the battery but at least will let you do the work you need to do. I'm...

Fighting piracy is a matter of trying to eliminate the masses from being able to easily use a pirated copy of the software... there's no full-proof method to both keep pirated copies unusable and keep your users sane when trying to use...

I have Vista... it was my first time trying it, and I assumed I wouldn't hang on to it for long, but I got used to it. I did some things to affect performance and available disk space (disabled hibernation, disabled system restore,...

By car charger I assume you're referring to a power inverter that gives you one or two 120v standard electrical outlets... these are awesome for mobile offices, but that's assuming you'll be spending enough time in your car to charge the...