would u happen to know where I can get a OS CD with out having to pay for it? I would be looking for an XP home edition and maybe an XP media center. I know that you'll need the product key so I will try the Jellybean Magic Key finder to get it off of each computer before I install the OS.
From: Stephen Clower Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 12:32 PM To: gw-info-gwmicro.com Subject: Re: sent my computer to GW Use a program like the Jellybean Magic Key Finder to locate the PC's Windows product key, write it down somewhere, and install the same version of Windows but with an actual Windows CD or DVD from Microsoft. When asked for the product key, enter what you wrote down earlier, and everything should be good to go from there. Note that depending on the age of your computer, you may need to have additional drivers on hand to support your peripherals. As for the format, always go with nTFS these days. Fat32 doesn't work well with partitions larger than 32GB, and even so, the file system fragments much quicker than NTFS. NTFS also adds file permissions which is absolutely essential these days. Regards, Steve On 4/6/2010 1:23 PM, Juan Gonzalez wrote: you know I always thought about this. I have always told people to do this but what do u do if like for example your restore CD comes with all of that crap on it? My sisters hp computer has 8 Restore CD's and when I restore it, it installs all of that crap that u speech of. now for a dell I know that everything comes separate but when u restore your computer is it better if u also format your C drive? if so what should we format it as? It has options like FAT 32 and whatever else. My dell computer does go slow when I restore it to factory settings but when I just install the OS it works fine. the only thing that I am not certain of is the formatting of the C drive maybe you could help From: Aaron Smith Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 12:00 PM Cc: gwmicro Subject: Re: sent my computer to GW To be fair, it's less about the fact that you have an HP, and more about the fact that you have an HP with all of HP's crap installed. If you were to reformat and re-install, you'd have a brand new machine, that would rock with Window-Eyes. I wrote about this, back in the day, on our blog: http://www.gwmicro.com/blog/index.php/all/?title=new_pc_woes. Aaron On 4/6/2010 12:26 PM, C. Richcreek wrote: Hi All, I am also using an HP but this is a laptop and having issues. Most of the issues are caused by HP but WinEyes is, for the small part, having some issues also, I would advise anyone and everyone not to buy an HP because many of their Win7 HP support programs are done in all flash? It seems that Microsoft takes two steps forward and HP takes four steps backwards in accessibility. Another issue is with Windows Live Mail. I don't see how the calendar can get corrupted data in it when I never go into it but when this happens the email program can not be opened, sheeze, multiple problems and WinEyes is the easiest so far to get through. Sorry about the so long rant but just had to spill. Thanks dearly, Craig R From: Don H Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 5:40 AM To: gwmicro Subject: sent my computer to GW When Windows 7 came out back in October I had a free upgrade coming from HP on my recently purchased Desktop computer. Now don't lecture me on why it is a bad idea to install a newly released operating system as I totally agree but hey I am old and don't have time to wait for it to be bug free as bug free never happens. After installing Win 7 and WE 7.11 I had problems with a random crash of my system when I started WE after a boot or computer restart. At this point I couldn't say for sure if it was a Win 7 problem a computer problem or a Window Eyes problem. I contacted HP with no help, contacted Microsoft with no help and reported the problem to GW and got the response that they couldn't duplicate the problem. After numerous WE generated error reports being sent to Aaron Smith at GW I got the response that maybe WE was causing the problem and a possible fix would be in 7.2. Well the WE 7.2 beta 1 changed the problem in that WE no longer generated a error message but I was still getting the crash. Aaron Smith finally told me that the only way that they could potentially fix the problem was for me to send GW my computer. I didn't really like the idea of sending them my computer but I also was fed up with the problem. So a little over a week ago I sent in my computer. After they received my computer it got top priority for Aaron Smith and others at GW to figure the problem out and get the computer back to me in short order. After a day of work at GW they did indeed agree that Window Eyes was causing my problem and after another couple of days they pinned it down to a timing problem with the Windows Log On service and GW did in fact resolve the problem on my computer and will include the fix in the 7.2 release of WE. Aaron indicated that this fix would probably benefit a small number of WE users with the same or similar problem. It cost me a total of $19 to send GW my computer and since it was in fact a WE problem they paid the shipping back. I see that as a few dollars well spent and just another indication of the great support that GW provides. So when GW recommends that you send in your computer don't be like me and hesitate and send it in if at all possible. You will probably get your problem solved and maybe just maybe make Window Eyes even a better product. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. 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