Decent laptop 289.99 for first 250 cust [CLOSED]

lellie

there's a seperate add or remove programs thing in the stupid packard bell tools section - try that..

We want rid of it too - have just disabled it for now.. will be putting avast and zonealarm on when I get the chance..

biglugs

In the Milton Keynes store today when I went to collect my printer (missed out on the laptops) there was a small pile (about half a dozen only) with no prices on. But next to the customer services desk was a photocopy of a leaflet with these on there at £49.99 as a clearance item! (Possibly an up-coming advert in this weekend's papers?).
What is REALLY annoying is that I actually bought one of these printer/scanners on Friday for £79.99 in Leicester and felt really chuffed that I'd argued them down to this price because they had left an old price label on shelf showing £20 off, while the massive pile next to it had a huge £99.99 price tag on it.

Also got a 256Mb USB memory stick for £14.99 which is a reasonably good price, given that these are reduced instore to £29.99.

Supplementary: This printer uses a USB 1.1 cable and PCW have these online at £3.09 (made by Belkin) but you can reserve and collect these too (they're under accessories). So if you're ordering a printer don't forget to get one of these too.

Other offers also include:
PNY 128Mb flash drive - £9.39
Packard Bell USB external floppy drive - £19.99 (great for those Dell buyers)
Windows XP Home upgrade - £79.99
HP #56 Inkjet cartridge (black) - £11.99
Emprex Dual Layer 16x DVD Rewriter - £44.50

Plus lots of inkjet printers with discounts too.

djrobmac

lellie wrote:

there's a seperate add or remove programs thing in the stupid packard bell tools section - try that..

We want rid of it too - have just disabled it for now.. will be putting avast and zonealarm on when I get the chance..

Its called 'Smart Restore' and it wont let you remove Norton, only gives you the option to install the damn thing.

Anyway, follwed the link i gave before and now ive got rid of it all. Its amazing how much fasterv it boots up now. Norton is pants!

Just a tip, if you bash F2 on the keyboard when the system firsts boots up then scroll accross to 'boot' and change the first boot device to 'Hard Drive' It will crank up the speed from switch on to Windows (just eliminates the need to check the cdrom first for a boot device)

Thanks for your replies guys!

rasanmoney

i cant belive people buy these just to make a profit. how greedy.

just seen one advertised on http://www.all-forums.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=240319 for a stupid price.

i,ve got mine its brill. not sure if i should stick some more ram in or not.

debs626

djrobmac wrote:

Its called 'Smart Restore' and it wont let you remove Norton, only gives you the option to install the damn thing.

Anyway, follwed the link i gave before and now ive got rid of it all. Its amazing how much fasterv it boots up now. Norton is pants!

Just a tip, if you bash F2 on the keyboard when the system firsts boots up then scroll accross to 'boot' and change the first boot device to 'Hard Drive' It will crank up the speed from switch on to Windows (just eliminates the need to check the cdrom first for a boot device)

Thanks for your replies guys!

I want to uninstall norton too .......... wont touch it wiht a barge pole, has cost me a hard drive before.

Can you tel me how you uninstalled it please.

Thanks in advance

Woby_Tide

ah well Customer Services say they can do nothing and will not provide any proof of price I ordered at, harsh lessons learnt get the printout, they say even the reference number means nothing unless you get printout to prove price it was bought at

lordexavier_the_2nd

Went to pc worl newport this am and the printers are definately stacked up at 49.99. Hope this is good for someone

Im also wanting to unistall norton, can anyone help, cheers

scrooge_mcduck_4

Woby_Tide wrote:

ah well Customer Services say they can do nothing and will not provide any proof of price I ordered at, harsh lessons learnt get the printout, they say even the reference number means nothing unless you get printout to prove price it was bought at

I'm sure in the t&c's of the Collect @ Store service it says you only need the reference number, it doesn't say anything about printing off the confirmation (I don't have a printer anyway). I'm going to collect my laptop tonight, and I only have a reference number, so I hope they won't try to sell to me at the normal price.

tonyg_2

Woby_Tide wrote:

ah well Customer Services say they can do nothing and will not provide any proof of price I ordered at, harsh lessons learnt get the printout, they say even the reference number means nothing unless you get printout to prove price it was bought at

Woby_Tide,

I have a very helpful contact (at least he was for me) at PC world customer services. Don't know what your actual problem was (didn't read through all the posts) but the contact is a guy called John on ext 22102 in customer services (0870 2420444). May be worth a go?

Tony

djrobmac

debs626 wrote:

I want to uninstall norton too .......... wont touch it wiht a barge pole, has cost me a hard drive before.

Can you tel me how you uninstalled it please.

Thanks in advance

Removal of Norton Internet Security (Firewall & Antivirus) from the Packard Bell Easynote E6:

STEP ONE

Download then run this ftp://ftp.symantec.com/misc/consumer/nis/nis2004xp_reg_removal.reg
Once complete delete that file.

STEP TWO

Next download and install Windows Script 5.6 from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c717d943-7e4b-4622-86eb-

STEP THREE

Click Start > Programs > Accessories > Windows Explorer.
On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
On the View tab, select Show all files or Show hidden files and folders.
Click OK.
Delete the Norton Internet Security folders:

C:\Program Files\Norton Internet Security

If It comes up with an access denied error when you try and delete the Antivirus folder you need to:

Open the folder
Hit Ctrl and A together (select all) All the files will then be highlighted
Find the file it said couldnt be deleted then press Ctrl and tap on that file (that one file will be deselected) you now hit delete and it will delete all the files except that one you deselected (you can delete that later)

So you should delete everything you can from C:\Program Files\Norton Internet Security (you should now just be left with one folder in this directory called Antivirus which contains that one file you couldnt delete at that time


Delete the following three folders:

C:\Program Files\Symantec
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec

Close Windows Explorer.

Reboot

Go back to C:\Program Files\Norton Internet Security and delete that final Antivirus folder and your done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know its a pain but this is THE ONLY WAY to get rid of it. Youll be glad you did!

OF COURSE YOU DO NEED ANTIVIRUS AND FIREWALL SOFTWARE but I suggest you use a different brand, try Mcafee.

Please note that when you run the Packard Bell utilty 'Smart Restore' after getting rid of Norton it will throw up an error because it cant find the norton files. Just click ignore and it works fine.

Regards

Rob