Amazing DELL Laptop Deals £328 Superb Spec XP or Vista

jaxxy00

millies_daddy im not sure where you downloaded from but you dont need to text or pay for free AVG. It automatically adds the info when you download and install it.

ezhik

rangers_fc wrote: »

Ok has anybody upgraded there INSPIRATION 1501 pc to vista premium or ultimate as Im considering doing this, if anybody has and can report any issues or advice of how they got the system running well after reinstall or upgrade I would be very grateful
I bought the 1501 model so It should not be a RAM issue but would appreciate some user comments

Yes I have. Once I was happy with it i reformatted the hard drive getting rid of all the Dell partitions, re-partioned to my liking and installed Vista Ultimate.

I used the driver disk to get the hardware installed and although it didn't automatically recognise all the installed hardware as it was supposed to, it was an easy job to identify what it missed and get the drivers installed. Also since the disk was produced some drivers have already been updated so a quick visit to the Dell update page, and the AMD (ATI) site was in order.

After I was done everything working and set up according my liking.

If you have any specific questions feel free.

ajbrynoffa

sorry double posted...see below.

ajbrynoffa

H i All,got my 1501 last week but could someone tell me how to get aol on it?All the discs in the shops are not vista compatible so they won`t load,so i downloaded the vista ready patch from aol onto my desktop,put it on a disc and loaded it onto the laptop only to find thats only for those upgrading to vista from xp.....beginning to wish i`d got xp!!.....can anyone point me in the right direction please?

ahll

Kilty wrote: »

The manual for my Inspiron 1300 states "never run the notebook without the battery inserted"

Does your manual say why ?

jampeters

albertross wrote: »

A recovery partition re-install is much easier/faster, and you won't have to faff about installing drivers and software manually.

Why not just shrink the partition so it is not using up as much space, or just use it for storing data.

Thanks for the reply. I prefer the "cleaness" of a standard re-install as i presume the recovery partition will contain all the crap that Dell put on the machine which slows it down.

I am unsure as to how to shrink a partition. I really would rather just put it on a DVD though as i think i am unlikely to need it but it would be there still if i did.

apples24

you can remove a partition from te hard drive i downloaded aprogram last year and done it so sorry but !!!!!!ed if i can rememebr what its called tho

millies_daddy

ajbrynoffa wrote: »

H i All,got my 1501 last week but could someone tell me how to get aol on it?All the discs in the shops are not vista compatible so they won`t load,so i downloaded the vista ready patch from aol onto my desktop,put it on a disc and loaded it onto the laptop only to find thats only for those upgrading to vista from xp.....beginning to wish i`d got xp!!.....can anyone point me in the right direction please?

I scatched my head over this one too....go straight online through Internet Explorer on the desktop, go to aol.co.uk and downloan 9.0 VR f(Vista Ready) from there.

PS in terms of paying for AVG, I googled AVG and went through a link so perhas I was conned.

millies_daddy

albertross wrote: »

Just don't use the AOL software, you don't need it.

Sorry what do you mean Albertross? Are you saying you can just use Internet Explorer? You still need the ISP account though....?

PS another daft question.....I haven't had a CD rewriter before and want to burn my first discs. How do I know which blank discs to buy? I dont understand the - and + thing. On my order confirmation is says the drive I have is 8x DVD+/-RW......does that mean I can use either type of disc?

Kilty_2

ahll wrote: »

Does your manual say why ?

I'm afraid not.