Marcjf:
Well I'm a happy chappie tonight. New laptop with XP and it all works. Engineer mentioned that Dell are going back to offering XP due to user demand, anyone confirm?
Earl:
Have a friend delivered with a new Dell today, still had Windows Vista on it seems the salesmen push this quite a bit.
No Microsoft Office either, even the virus program was a 30 day trial which I guess is normal now days.
Sorted the missing office program quite quickly, AVG will take care of the Norton issue.
Had a recovery disk which I think works off the partitioned hard drive using up to 9 GB of space.
Whatever happened to the days where we would get the Disk with the operating system on it instead of this recovery thing.
No wonder Dell can sell them so cheap.
Still a good deal at 449. USD to include a 19 inch LCD monitor.
After transferring some files and music to it from a backup external hard drive, think I will stay with XP.
Last edited by Earl; 4th Sep 2007 at 04:58.