Re: Dell Garbage and Infinite Install Loop

your purchase price is subsidized by the very things that you complain
about. but i didn't hear you complain about the low price. can't have your
cake and eat it too... and the solution to the sonic 'insert cd' prompt is
easy as has been posted here before... google it.

"journey" <rainbow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well I got the E1505 today. It was loaded with extra garbage. I
deleted the virus protection and everything else that I don't need,
and there were tons of registry entries left over. When I removed
them and compressed the registry, there was 13% wasted space.

I got the Sonic continuous update loop again. To me it is
UNFATHOMABLE that Dell knows about this and doesn't do anything about
it. Anyone who gets a laptop who uninstalls the extras will end up
with this loop. Everytime Windows boots a Sonic install runs asking
for disk 1.

When I got my 630m I was baffled, and tried all sorts of things
including uninstalling Sonic, and even that didn't help.

I did a Google search and found that many people were having the same
problem. Some poor souls went into the registry manually deleting
things, and others attempted many other kinds of fixes.

All that needs to be done is for an InstallShield update file to be
downloaded and run. The problem has nothing to do with Sonic.

So, I am a fairly competant user, but I can empathize with all of the
"usual" users out there -- like my mother, who would get this and
never be able to solve it on her own.

Yet Dell continues to sell laptops with this problem. I can't
comprehend why they would do that -- is it a quality control issue in
which their current baseload has been tested and in order to make a
small change they would need to go through exhaustive testing again to
make sure fixing this doesn't break something else?

Anyway, that's my rant. At least if I see someone post here about
that problem I'll be able to direct them quickly to a solution.

Journey


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