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It didn't boot into Windows. It tried to do a recovery.

My new drive seems to be working in it now.

Yerk. We'll find out...

The fan on this one has more than two speeds .

It's fast! I can surf at light speed. After a week of use though, I'm sure it will get clogged down.

Why will it get clogged down? Most computers (unless you build it yourself) can be made to run faster and more efficiently by dumping a lot of the crap they come preloaded with and tweaking the settings. May or may not be able to do much with your surfing/downloading speeds. Just do a search for optimizing laptops or optimizing windows (version). Just make sure to create restore points before doing anything your not sure about.

Better yet don’t mess around and just install Linux.

Shoulda bought a Mac. They run Windows great.

I finally cleaned all the crap out of it including removing unused registry entries. Then I installed Vista Ultimate Upgrade so that I can get onto corporate LANs. The fan's a lot quieter on this one and so far, it's only doing one funny thing: my WAN is showing as disconnected in the taskbar (has an X through it) but it's running just fine.

I hate it when I have a disconnected WAN.

So, the saga continues.

I received a box from HP last Tuesday. It was too small and didn't have an insert for my battery and HP adaptor. I put in another call to HP and they said they'll send the right box out. So I called them today to find out where the box is and they told me that there is only one box and I have it. "But it won't close", "It has no insert for all the auxilliary stuff" and "Why didn't you let me know instead of making me wait for nothing" I say. To which she responds "Why don't you just find a bigger box?".

Lesson learned. Never buy an HP laptop.

Thanks for the info, Mojo. My boss keeps mentioning HP laptops, since we have HP servers and workstations.

I've not had great experiences with their workstation support, but server has been decent.

I dislike HP only because they are also Compaq, kinda. I have years of hating Compaq from my days doing retail software and PC support and Compaq was our 'high end' brand. So ridiculously proprietory, they were just a PITA to work with.

Life just won't let me forget because when I look at my work issued "HP" laptop, it has also has a Compaq logo on the top right hand side of the screen framing.

Just a little thing but it gives me the same feeling I get when I hear someones pager go off. Just reminds me of frustrating times.