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The sheet of ice covering my van this morning was over a 1/4" thick. Side roads were murdur and the main roads weren't much better Mark

Sorry I'm late HAPPY BIRTHDAY Hope it was a good one Mark

The touchpad was acting funky with both plugged in. I finally disabled it. What has happened is they allowed her 2 year old daughter to bang on the touchpad and keyboard. The mouse buttons are unresponsive 50% of the time. I'll give her the option of replacement or USB. Other than that no problems so far. Just get everything reloaded

Quick question before I go rooting around Dell's site. The keyboard's messed up. The S and F key doesn't work and I want to use a regular USB mouse and keyboard. Is there a function key combination to use to disable the onboard ones?

What an IDIOT You're right, a good night sleep will do wonders. Like make you realize you're banging on the Alt key instead of the Ctrl key It's reloading now

I believe it will show in the System Event log http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427 Mark

I took a break from it yesterday, I was starting to lose my temper. I'll look at it more today when I get back from my daughter's house Mark

Some tips and a work-around http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/ Mark

That's what I figured. I went ahead and copied them the other day. Now I just have to wait for the restore disk. It supposedly has a recovery partition, but I couldn't get it to work Mark Liz, your idea wasn't a bad one but this girl had so many pictures I probably would have crashed Photobuckets server

I'm working on my daughter's friend's laptop. It's totally infected to the point that I'll probably just reload Windows Her mother recently died and she has a ton of pictures she hopes to save. I put the drive in a USB enclosure and it shows up in my computer. I've already scanned the drive with several online scanners and supposedly nothing shows, but I know better. With the drive back in the laptop, The malware just takes over until it finally reaches the Desktop and then it's non-responsive, even in safemode. If I hook it back up to my computer, what are the chances of infecting my compute

Robert Herron is at http://dl.tv/index.php Partick Norton. Kevin Rose, Roger Chang plus others are at http://revision3.com/ Leo LaPorte is on http://www.crankygeeks.com/ often hosted by John Dvorak Mark

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Card readers are a crapshoot. I have a Silverstone that hasn't given me any problems so far Mark

Assuming it's plugged in and the jumpers are correct, I'd delete the upper and lower filter keys left click start>run. type "regedit" (no talking marks) navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} delete the LowerFilter and UpperFilter keys. restart your pc and see how it goes! Mark

Max out the memory if it isn't already, sit back and enjoy. It has onboard video and an AGP slot. If you're not happy with the graphics and it's using onboard, you could always get an AGP card. Oh yeah, a new fan Mark

I just noticed this the other day. I bid on some laptop parts and when I got the final tally, Something didn't add up right Mark

Stealing mom's clothespins from outside to make rubber band guns Mark

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Have a great day Mark

With due respect to Pete C, G4 and tech support do not belong in the same sentence Mark

My original ISP was Adelphia, which I liked, even though the CEO was raping the company. The government gave us to Time Warner. I have had no issues, but it sure would be nice to have some broadband competitors. Mark

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mark

It's distinct alright, reminds me of an old Beatles album cover Mark

I'm sorting out some USB issues at this moment, also. Quick fix is to add a USB PCI add-on card. This site is very informative, you have to poke around in it somewhat: http://www.usbman.com/ Make sure Windows Updates are current. Due to licensing agreements, you can only get USB drivers from the computer or motherboard mfg. Mark

I don't know, Sultan. Those jet turbines look suspiciously Like beer kegs Mark

I assume you were breast-fed as a wee lad? Mark