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trizoy, so it's possible that i just reinstalled the os over everything i had? what i have now is like a brand new system. there's much more disk space than what there was, and none of what i originally had installed is there anymore. but somehow the orig. os info stuck. (i think that's right)...

ok, so i've successfully reformatted and i'm working on reinstalling programs/putting back all my data, but now there's a bit of an annoyance every time i start up. there's a message asking me which os i want to boot. as if there's 2 installed. but both say winxp home ed. why is this showing...

do i have to uninstall sp2 first?

so i'm in need of reformatting my laptop's hard drive. it's a dell inspiron 1100 with winxp home. i'll be loading the same os back onto it. however, i've looked all over the web and can't really find a good guide for reformatting on a laptop that doesn't have a floppy drive. can someone please...

is that the 6000 or the 9300? the 9300 is almost too big for me - i'd get lost in its screen... The only reason I'm hesitant on this dell is 3 people in my media intern class already have it (it's a really small class - around 10ish). Plus I'm trying to get away from the whole dell name - no...

This is what the notebook comes equipped with for a video card: Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator w/10MB-128MB shared video memory I think that should be fine - even though it has no dedicated memory - plus the system has a gig of RAM. But if my editing needs still require some dedicated...

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/pdet.to?poid=297802&seg=HHO should i worry about the graphics card with shared memory?

so do you think the m45-s355 would suit my needs? or is there a better one out there somewhere?

ok, i have pretty specific needs for my new laptop. i will mostly be using it for multimedia and editing (both playing and editing video, pictures, and some audio). This means using the adobe premiere/photoshop programs and other such CPU-demanding programs. I would be editing more video than...

i just went away for a few days, so i didn't buy the dell 6000 yet. so before i do without the discount, or wait until another discount comes rolling around, i would like to know a few more details - how fast is the hard drive? if it's not that fast, would i have to install a new one myself or...

scratch that idea, winAVI doesn't support divx. but you could always try the bundle available on www.divx.com that includes a converting program that deals with divx files. (available for a reasonable cost).

i believe WinAVI video can do it, along with many other formats supported. it doesn't cost that much either, if i recall.

if its just the xvid movies you're having trouble with, then just download the free xvid player (version 6 is the newest, i think). this will play your movies with ease.

would this copy my user data too? right now, my laptop is kindof screwed up because it onced died so bad i had to get it fixed by some local shop guy. when i got it back, there was about five extra users under 'docs and settings' and only one of them was the active one (not the one i originally...

darn, just wondering - i thought i saw something like this in a web banner somewhere, but maybe not...

i know it sounds kindof odd, but is there a program out there that allows you to backup allready installed programs on your computer that were downloaded (and the setup file deleted long ago? I ask this because i hope to get a new laptop and my old one has many programs that were downloaded...

I'm actually heavily leaning towards the inspiron 6000. I configured it to $2,223, and got a huge discount with a coupon code and got it down to only $1,473. Can't complain with that... I think I can live without your 10.9 pound 'laptop' ;)

thanks for all the help - i'm gonna have to think this over now..

do you think it should the harddrive/processor should be fast enough and have enough power to handle decent video editing (this is what I will be doing a lot this year for a media class I'm taking).

also, alanuofm, which pentium m processor are you referring to, there's about a dozen to customize with...