jason if you dont stop that a virus will infect your system and wipe your hard drive.

oh- and it's not vista, it's the kind of laptop i have.

and it is li-ion, not lion

jason was probably one of those irritating 7-yr olds who follow you around, imitating your every word.

  well then, guys, i moved then battery from my xps 1530 while it was still running and nothing happened.

can anybody tell jason to shut up?

Hey, did you guys know that you can remove your laptop battery while the laptop is still on? this improves battery life-heat damages lithium-ion batteries.

abode's pdf reader is big, slow, and unacceptable. it scrolls to slowly, it take too long to load a new page and it is too large. that is why i got foxit. foxit is much better in all these areas, and it only adds up to 5.6mb

Get it

  you are so young and already thinking of the unethical? my my, i wonder if EH-net in already losing the "E" part and corrupting young minds.

Dude if you even know anything about computers, you would know that no OS is secure.

BillV, i am  Comptia A+ and Network+ certified, not to mention a SOHO network administrator. my motto is : If it's screwed, i can fix it.
so a laptop should be small work  in my line of duty.

Dudes, would you believe, the last two Laptops i fixed were both hp?
It just show how worthless they are. 1, i got a broken adapter cable, and 2, i got a  malfunctioning keyboard and touchpad. just shows how worthless they are.

  For the last time, IT IS NOT VISTA! Vista i actually very much better in terms of certain things (UI, windows sidebar, windows memory diagnostic....). So stop bashing vista!!

it is not vista dude, it is the entire worthless matshita line. if you want to really know what they are worth, highlight the second to last four-letter combination in the name matshita.

I had a problem with my matshita dvd burner in my dell xp m1530 after installing vista sp1 (along with an insanely long startup time). it seems that many people have this proplem. i have posted some registry entries that will make it work again (please make a system restore point in case it damages the registry). download the registry entry and merge it into your system by double-clicking it. then reboot and your drive should work.
ps i do not know if this works with xp

i vote that this should be called Vista Hater Network