Bloody Dell......

[bon3yard]

Further to my Laptop virus woes, have reinstalled windows but cant validate it because I cant get online. Apparently I dont have the right drivers for WLAN. Heres the clincher...Dell wont talk to me because I dont have my security tag to hand. Usually it is on the bottom of the laptop but mine has been worn away(To be honest it doesnt look as if its ever been there)...and yes, its fully legit. Any ideas around this problem???

[Annasfield]

No, but thank you for helping me realise that ordering a Sony laptop was a good idea. ;-)

[bon3yard]

Smugness is wrongness...and God or some form of divine entity will judge you. Amen.

[Annasfield]

Not again.

[appers]

seems like a bit of a catch 22...

if you can get online from another machine (and presumably you can if you're posting here...) you should be able to download the drivers from the dell support site:

dell support

you can select your laptop by model number and grab the wlan drivers from there. only catch is you'll need a memory stick or similar to transfer the download from whichever machine you use to your laptop.

hope this helps

[SteveT]

sounds like you are a computer wizz appers

makes note.........

[appers]

its a curse i have to live with ;-)

[KalamityKel]

or you could just throw it out of the window (making sure there r no old ladies or little sprogs passing by first of course) and then make a trip to some computer selling outlet place and get a new one... Dell r crap afterall...

Just a thought ;-)

[MelbourneGr]

Dell are amazing ::o -

[KalamityKel]

Who told you that? ::o

[MelbourneGr]

My systems architecture teacher at college \:))/

Sommit about high end components used by Dell, rather than the cheapy PC's sold by high street outlets.

[Jeremy]

I think that was the case "back in the day", MelbourneGr... it's certainly not the case now! At least if you go for the cheaper models.

[MelbourneGr]

Good point, that advice was given to me 8 years ago.

[mamafeelgood]

pick yourself an apple if you can. on the virus side of things they are grrrrrrrrreat.

[bon3yard]

I aint got no money for a Apple puter.

[KalamityKel]

Well I guess at the end of the day it does depend on how MUCH money you have to play wiv...

[bon3yard]

How much is a farthing? I think I have a farthing...

[karter]

I think Dells are brill and have never had a problem and use them all the time. I just dont do macs....:)

[bon3yard]

Thats great to know Carter, but its not much help to me...

[dosser]

hya about dell.

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doss

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[Asset]

What the heck is wrong with my computer? For no reason it has started freezing all the time when I'm on either Firefox, IE, and Outlook. Ctrl, Alt Del doesn't 'end task' and I have to switch off manually and reboot.

As I type the cursor is not keeping up with me, lagging behind and then spurting the text out.

I've tried deleting Firefox and reloading it, I've done a disk cleanup, I've done a virus scan.

Help boffins.

[SeanMacGabhann]

What sort of virus scan have you done Asset? Usinga virus scanner alone won't help if Spyware has made it's way onto the system for example - you need suitcase of differnt apps

This thread on (gasp!) another forum should contain plenty

Help -my PC has started running slowly

Links to necessary software as well

[Asset]

Thank you Sean,

The virus scan I ran is McAfee. I downloaded and ran the software (a-squared, AVG no longer free) from the link on the thread you provided. It detected 1 high risk item which I've quarantined.

Just waffling at the moment to test the typing. The cursor is still lagging but it does seem marginally better. I'll have to see how often it freezes now.

Thanks.

[SeanMacGabhann]

it might be worth booting into safe mode before running the spyware programs, then rebooting again. It's unlikely any quarantining will have any effect without rebooting

(feel free to contradict me anyone - it's been years since I did this for a living)

[appers]

fwiw, avg has a new version out that includes anti-spyware aswell as anti-virus, and its still free...

avg free v8.0

and i agree with seanmacg that booting to safe mode might help with the installation.

good luck