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Snagged a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop, like new, Vista Home, 2gig DC proccessor, 3gig ram, for 75 Quatloos. God, Vista is so dumbed down, had none of the nuts-and-bolts functionality of 2000 or ME. Found I could implement the sceen and menu format to Win 2K style. MUCH better. JR Dweller in the cellar

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Wayne

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The various Home versions are really castrated, I haven't successfully put one on my home network yet so it can see my other boxes. Always have upgraded to the Pros(have MSDN) so I've got policies to turn stuff off that I want to turn off and some networking tools. Not worth wasting my time scrimping and patching the Home versions. Have gotten stuck with Vista at work, my laptop with XP Pro can boot up in half the time and it's got about a third of the CPU power. At least you've got enough RAM to run Vista semi-decently. You might see if Dell has a cheap upgrade to 7. They're already EOLing plain Vista with no SPs. You did get a deal on the hardware.

Stan

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stans4

I threw away a similar computer - couldn't sell it for $15

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Bill Noble

Blink blink...you get anothe rlaptop like that..drop me an email..and Ill come and get it.

Gunner

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Gunner Asch

On XP, C:\WINDOWS\system32\moricons.dll. Haven't messed with 7 enough yet, too many outdoor projects.

jsw

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Jim Wilkins

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