Hi there. I'm planning on buying a new Dell desktop shortly, to replace my aging but venerable Dimension 4500.
I need a single PC for typical home use. I'm definitely not a gamer - not that there's anything wrong with playing games, it's just not what I do. Also: I want Windows XP ...

I currently have a Linksys a/b/g wireless router with 4 ethernet ports
hooked up to CAT6 cable.  It doesn't have a port to connect to another
router
I can buy an Airport Extreme off Craig's List for $50.  It works well

Its time to upgrade again, anyone put a drive larger than 120G in a Latitude
C400, or does anyone know what the BIOS limit is?

I have a Dell Precision M4300 laptop, win xp, fully patched. It is
connected to the the internet via its wireless Intel 4965 minicard thru
an ActionTec router (FIOS).
Last night I lost the ability to access any website. This happened with

My daughter has a 1521 dual AMD laptop with vista home on it. It's a
slow beast. Anybody know if it likes XP Pro?
ZaXXoN

I found this software called clockgen on the web put out by CPUZ ,I have
amd64x2 5600,2.8ghz,got it running at 3ghz ,this thing is really
flying,according to HWMonitor the temps are 38-40 c,just running the
web.Just wondering if this could harm any thing,sure like the speed,this

This light has been flashing amber for two months now.  The WINDOWS power
meter says that battery is at 100%.  I can run on the battery for 2 -1/2
hours.
Is there a way to stop the light from flashing - other than replacing the

Do I need any special brackets to add an additional HD to me Dell 2400?
I remember in my old machine, ( standard PC clone) all I needed were the 4
small screws ribbon cable and power connector, all of which were already
inside waiting to be connect and the screws usually came with ...

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For some reason, 1,317 files were changed on my system to be
"Archived".  That's the little checkbox that appears if you highlight
a file, right click, and select properties.
How they got that way was one of the unknown wonders that sometimes

Just wondering how you like it?
Can it be opened up and worked on in case something
breaks? Can you replace hard drive, etc?

I finally got a chance to look into things, and the CPU in my
Dimension 8300 is a Pentium 4 "Prescott" running at 3.4GHz.
At the time I built the machine, I had a choice of either the
conventional Pentium 4 or the Pentium 4 "Extreme Edition" which was

I have a Latitude with the skinny broadband PC Express card.  Uploads are 40 to 80 K.  Downloads are about 800.  Dell said buy the
new "Revision A" card to solve the problem.  Anyone else experience this?  Verizon has one for $50 with a 2 year contract and online
discount.  ...

First post on here, so be gentle.
I've got a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop which is only running 1GB ram and
has a puny hard drive (43.8 GB on the C Drive and another 10GB on the D
Drive).  It's running Windows Vista (yeuch) so I could really do with

I need a usb printer cable,  18 ft. long.  I have searched for a 20 ft
cable, thinking that would be a likely length to fit this specific need.   I
don't find such a 20 ft cable.  I find 6 ft   10 ft ,    and   15 ft, but
nothing longer than  15 ft.