"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message
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"Martin" wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:58:35 +0100, "Charlie Pridham"
wrote:

I had heard a lot of the adverse comments so bought a machine with 2GM
ram.
At the moment its not working and wont even switch on so you could say
I
am
not a fan!
One of the things they have removed is Control Alt Delete so you have
no
choice but to power off then it goes into recovery mode to try and fix
the
problem, but this all takes a long time (and so far has not worked) so
what
would have been an irritating freeze on my old machine would take only
a
few
seconds to regain control I find taking hours on this one

On my WinXP Dell I can get the same effect as Ctrl Alt Delete by holding
in the
power button. Dunno if that will work on your PC or with Vista.

My son's new Dell with Vista runs most thing he uses without a problem.
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Martin

Machine is back where it came from and we have a new one, the previous one
was pronaunced unrepairable! no wonder I was not immpressed.
So how I go with mark 2 (and it apparently should have had c alt del)

--
Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cultivars


Well machine two switched on so that was an improvement of sorts! somewhat
marred by the monitor not working, zip, zero, not a glimmer. So it has to go
back tomorrow, but at least by using an old monitor I can see the computer
is working.
I notice that Microsoft have come up with a new buzz word OOBE " Out of the
box experience" the only remotely funny thing about the whole few days imo!!

--
Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cultivars