six month old Acer AM5100 desktop
has a DVD drive that intermittently fails.
not going to bother with warranty hassle for a cheesy DVD drive.
will simply upgrade to a better quality unit.

I wish to delete a fragmented Hibernate file (hiberfil.sys) on dirve C.
I read that this is possible, if first one sets hibernate to inactive.
On the Acer, this option is managed through eManagement software. Thi
takes control away from XP. However, even when no Hibernate option i

I've got a 3 year old Aspire 3002LCi.  A software diagnostic reported my
battery as being only 44% even though it was fully charged.  Not too
surprising as since day one I've been lucky to get 30 minutes of battery
time.

We bought an Acer Aspire 8920G recently.  When we got it, one of the
first things I did was pop in the sampler Blu-ray disc that came with
the laptop and bask in the HD goodness.  The other day, we made a trip
to Hollywood Video and picked up a couple BD titles to enjoy.  To my

On an Acer Aspire 7720G, I try to get xp installed next to vista.
It's installed now and of course there are many yellow icons in the
hardware manager because of missing drivers. So I basically need to
figure out the exact hardware specifications of the laptop, so I can

I see the 3 clips on the left side but the panel is still anchored.  What
else do I need do to remove the panel?  [I want to add a fan to cool the
SATA HD.]
Thanks.

This is a elementary question but I need help just the same. I have an Acer
T180 with Vista Home Premium. I show several removable drives labeled Disk 1
Removable (G), Disk 2 Removable (H) and so on.
What are these? How do I used them? What are they for? What do they do?