Msi u100.... ( Wireless internet and other set up advice please )

Rikki

I need to know what to do with the desktop icons. Which to activate, which I have to do some thing with etc?

Install NIS2008, Burn Recovery help, MSI Burn Recovery, MSI Q-Face, Windy Zone and Magnifier. The last two are for me to get to know, the burn one's it doesn't have an external dvd/cd drive so leaven them for now and the NIS2008 what is this?

-TangleFoot-

Rikki wrote: »

NIS2008 what is this?

That's Norton Internet Security 2008 - avoid like the plague.

Rikki

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

That's Norton Internet Security 2008 - avoid like the plague.

:eek: Good job I asked. Normally I rush in and open and install everything. :rotfl:
Do I just delete the icon and ignore it or do I have to do anything else?

I had fun removing it from my laptop. Will again as I will be wiping it back to factory setting soon. :rolleyes: There is a norton removal tool in one of my previous threads.

-TangleFoot-

Rikki wrote: »

Do I just delete the icon and ignore it or do I have to do anything else?

Whether it be the installer itself or just a shortcut, deleting it from your desktop should suffice.

firegalley246

Use the "MSI Burn Recovery" to burn a recovery DVD - it will be much handier to have than the restore DVD that came with the machine, or the built-in restore partition on the machine. It can also make a .iso file for use later when you have an external DVD drive.

kwikbreaks

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

That's Norton Internet Security 2008 - avoid like the plague.

Is that the one that stops the machine working at all so it can't get infected?

Rikki

firegalley246 wrote: »

Use the "MSI Burn Recovery" to burn a recovery DVD - it will be much handier to have than the restore DVD that came with the machine, or the built-in restore partition on the machine. It can also make a .iso file for use later when you have an external DVD drive.

.iso file, enlighten me please.

-TangleFoot-

Rikki wrote: »

.iso file, enlighten me please.

Does this help?

Rikki

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Does this help?

no.......

It's this I was wanting to understand.

firegalley246 wrote:

Use the "MSI Burn Recovery" to burn a recovery DVD - it will be much handier to have than the restore DVD that came with the machine, or the built-in restore partition on the machine. It can also make a .iso file for use later when you have an external DVD drive.

-TangleFoot-

How about this then?

To burn an optical disc, one usually first creates an optical disc image with a full file system designed for the optical disc, and then burns the image to the disc. The disc image is a single file, built and stored on the hard drive, which contains the entire information to be contained on the disc.

Many optical disc authoring software applications create the disc image and burn in one bundled operation, so that end-users often do not know the distinction. However, a useful motivation for learning this distinction is that creating the disc image is an "expensive" (time-consuming) process. Most disc writing applications will silently delete this image from the "temporary directory" in which it was built unless users instruct the disc burning application to preserve the image, which can then be used for creating further copies of the same image without the need to rebuild the image each time.