Christer, Your assumption about my optical drives being D: and E: is correct, and I understand the rationale for changing them. My present F:...
While sitting on ONE hand waiting, I used my other hand to right click on my F: drive. One of the options on the resulting menu was "delete...
Aaargh! Thought I might have done it right at long last, but in checking Computer Management>Storage>Disk Management, it now shows: Volume:...
Christer, I did what you suggested with the DELPART diskette, and the screen now shows "no partitions defined ". But when I try to exit, I get...
Windows just finished installing itself on the new computer. When the computer rebooted, I got a screen with two listings of Windows XP Home...
Thanks for pitching in, Christer. I was trying something Charles had suggested (Control Panel > Performance & Maintenance > Admin Tools >...
Sorry, one more thing! I've been trying to find the thread where you mentioned it before, but what was the size you recommended for the OS...
Charles, When I right-click on the first item (the Healthy EISA Configuration one), the only choice that comes up is "help" (and when I click on...
OK, I've borrowed a monitor, and I'm at the "Computer Management" screen. It looks like there are 3 partitions... I'll try to reproduce the info...
Finally got through to the right party at Dell (you'd think Canada was in a different solar system or something, trying to locate the appropriate...
Wow, thanks for all the feedback! Windows XP Home edition is what I have. I'm going to call Dell tomorrow (my question about the Windows XP cd...
I got a Dimension 5100 with: Intel Pentium 4 processor 521 with HT Technology (2.8 GHz) 1GB DDR2 SDRAM at 400MHz 128MB ATI Hyper memory...
Thanks for the feedback and all the useful links, Charles! One question about installing WinXP from scratch on my new Dell (which I don't have...
After putting up with a defective OS (Win ME) on a defective computer for 4 years, I've finally splurged on a new Dell desktop. I followed the...
Thanks for the reply, Pete! I didn't know how to do what you suggested, but you at least got me browsing in the right section of the help file,...
I just upgraded to the latest version of Zone Alarm (free), and went ahead and added Star Downloader (my download manager) to my list of programs...
Thank you kindly, gentlemen! I'll take your advice.
I'm in the process of customizing a tentative new Dell for myself, and am wondering what the difference is between the following: Dual Drives:...
Dug into my Thunderbird Profiles folder, and found separate Inbox and inbox.msf files, so I answered my own question. Should've tried that...
Thunderbird recently started behaving a little oddly on my computer, and I've been researching solutions in the MozillaZine forums. Other people...
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