Today I received a letter from Dell. It started out: Dear Current Occupant: Your dedicated account team is now in place to help your business. I didn’t feel much like reading further.

Encouraged by the success of my two test upgrades, I upgraded my main workstation to Win 7. It went pretty smoothly. I ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and found all the problem programs and drivers, and uninstalled or fixed them all. When I did the actual upgrade, the compatibility scan detected a problem that… [Read More]

This morning, conventional wisdom doesn’t look so bad. Last night, the new Win 7 system started responding slowly. Norton Internet Security was doing a full scan at the time, so I didn’t worry about it much. I brought up the Task Manager and didn’t see anything untoward. But then I couldn’t close the Task Manager…. [Read More]

I gave up on the Win 7 upgrade that Amazon sent out groundinstead of  Blue Label. So did Amazon; they sent a replacement even though UPS said it would get here in due time. On Turkey Day, I ordered another copy for Saturday delivery. This morning, it showed as being prepared for shipment on Amazon’s… [Read More]

The 3880 came a couple of days ago. I went through the usual Epson shipping tape hunt, and found ’em all. Setup was simple using the USB port. After my Ethernet problems with the 3800, I figured I’d save the network connection for later. In loading the ink cartridges into the printer, I had a… [Read More]