Abbreviate F*** THIS or F***DISK to FDISK to clear up the installed but uninstallable crapware they give you. Even the uninstalled stuff usually makes your machine run slow, so start fresh. Usually used right out of the box. And if it runs with the windows stuff, the add on stuff probably does not work as well.
And why was your BIOS and other software not patched with all latest fixes? On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Dale Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > When my wife's windoze machine neared end-of-life, we bought her a new HP > laptop. I had to spend a lot of time fixing problems my wife encountered > because of HP's tactic of pasting HP-specific crud on top of windoze, but > eventually, we got things working in an understandable way. But then ... On > the day after the warranty expired, the internet connection through my > wireless router would not come up. I pursued all the help pages and Google > and eventually discovered that the light (on the F12 key) signifying power > status to the wireless adapter was amber rather than blue. HP FAQ's and > Google hits indicated that I should just press the F12 key, but to no avail. > When I contacted HP, I was told that I would have to pay for support on a > time-used basis or get a contract for $59. I paid the $59 and was connected > to a lady for whom English was a second language. She knew immediately what > the problem was and instructed me to delete and rebuild one of the programs > that was part of the afore-mentioned overlay of HP crud, and then to > download an updated BIOS from HP's site. > What really bothers me about this is: > 1) The problem's emergence on the first day of non-warranty status. > 2) The fact that the problem is obviously with HP software (or perhaps > manufacturing processes related to software). > 3) The fact that support knew all about the problem, but it was not in the > FAQ's, or at least not recognizable by the symptoms I experienced. > 4) That I had to pay to discover HP's defect. > > Dale Miller -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
