-=PCTechTalk=- Re: To fix IE 6


My 6 or 7 year old Gateway is on 24 hours a day and has been mostly since I 
bought it.  I use it for business
and personal use most waking hours. When I am not using it I always have it 
doing something such as SETI. I am not a light user.
 I have never had to take it to a repair shop.  I did install more memory and 
did replace the original hard drive with two larger ones and
installed a CD-RW\DVD drive. 
  It came with 98SE installed, I upgraded to Me, then to XP Pro.  It now dual 
boots with XP Pro and Linux Linspire 4.5  I am getting 
ready to update the Linspire to Ver. 5.0 and also install Ubuntu 5.10 for a 
triple boot.
I was just commenting that lying (bluffing) to
try to get something free might not be the best approach to take.  I did state 
the company was not consumer friendly either.  It certainly was taking the 
wrong approach
to get a repeat customer.
I'm sorry you and others bought electronics from HP that are poorly made and 
keep breaking.  I did my research when I bought the Gateway and determined that 
HP was a 
company I did not want to buy from.  By the way my house mate's Dell was always 
breaking down and he could never get good tech support from them.  All repairs 
I had to do at 
his own expense for the parts.
 It finally quit for good after three years and he still had payments on it to 
Dell due.  He did little research about the company and bought primarily based 
on price.
He is a light user, weeks went by with out the Dell even being turned on. We'll 
never buy a Dell again.  He got an eMachine (part of Gateway) and is very 
satisfied.
Dave


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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:53:04 -0400
From: "ms24" <ms24@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: To fix IE 6

Dear Dave,

Perhaps you are a very light computer user...  I happen to fully agree with
Mary Lou.

I have had 4 bad personal experiences with HP between 2001 and 2005, and
fully agree.   HPs cannot handle even moderate usage [3 to 4 hours per day].
Computers fail after about a year and develop one problem after another and
HP even under extended contract gives you a hard time and wants to make
appointments about 10 days off to resolve problems after they finally agree
that they are responsible.  They won't send you the part to let you do the
repair, even if you promise to send them the old part.
[PS -- the tech for my general area is 40 miles away and doesn't even have a
shop... Works out of his own apartment.]

Do you really want to be without a personal computer for 10 days until a
tech that they contract and doesn't even work for them, comes to your home?
I happen to tell the tech what was wrong each time and told him not to show
up at the house without the part needed.  [Two had been my own and 2
belonged to other people.  After the last incident with them, I gave up and
purchased a Dell.  It's a year and 3 months old and not a problem and I'm a
heavy user.  6 to 10 hours daily -- 6 days per week.  Without a computer,
I'm out of work.]  

With my first HP, the motherboard failed and I had to borrow a computer for
3 months until they determined they could not replace the motherboard and
prorated a 2d which kept failing until I got disgusted with them and decided
to buy one from a real computer company.   

Just as a comparison to their quality, I have a computer I built myself in
'98 with Win 98 SE installed that is still being used by someone who doesn't
want it updated because they're satisfied with it as is.  They are what I
would term a "moderate user".  The only "repair" has been a RAM memory
upgrade from 256 to 512.

Emma
ms24@xxxxxxxxxxx





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