Posts by Grongle

I feel the same way as Superczar, whom I commend on his excellent review. I fixed up a new ASUS notebook which came with Vista, and I had an experience about two-thirds of the way toward his level of frustration. The unwritten message I...

I'm modifying a few previous queries that resulted in some very good info. I found out that, yes indeed, there are places that sell notebooks with no OS. That's what I'm looking for. But the lady I'm getting it for tells me she'd like...

Of course, you could always use a live-CD Knoppix or Ubuntu or various others. Trouble is, CD-based OSs have to be slow. And the right browser for that would be K-Meleon, EXCEPT K-M is Windows-only. It is a freestanding Moz family...

You know, what might work for you is nighttime maintenance. My system does a heck of a lot of work while I sleep. It does the power-consuming heavy-duty scans, as well as defrags. If you don't have the time to be running around after all...

Well, of all the workarounds I've ever heard of, this one has to be the Best for Bizarre! Now, I used to be a whiner myself. I never did learn to see the glass as being half-full, but when I dropped a RightMark CPU Clock Utility into...

This is a total re-edit of a long thing I wrote and decided was not what you needed. Basically, troubles with Vista result from Vista's very different boot system, which does not use NTLDR or boot.ini, and its different use of device...

Wow! Thanks very much, again, Filippo! OK, I've been making notes, and I think I'll follow closely what you have suggested. Next I'm going to check out the URLs you sent me. Best regards from Vancouver, Canada!

Well, this is very good news! I'm going to research all the links and references you gave me. Thanks again!

Thanks, polishman. No, she may well end up with Intel, 'cuz I have to put her needs in front of my own growlies, right? Haha! For my own, Intel has very effectively steered me straight over to AMD, because that Celeron fiasco was...

I'm not the teacher. I'm the friend who's helping. And the way I'm helping is to ask for help myself! I know what I'm doing with desktops and software. Those are my own strengths. But my schoolteacher friend is new to computers...