tankman1989
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Ok, I have 6 days until the return policy is up and I need to figure this out.
This is a Toshiba laptop
I bought a laptop for $600+ and it is a total POS!
I want all my private info off. My Office doc's, Emails, Thunder-bird, Open Office, Browser histories, passwords, account names, etc (4 browsers).
I don't think a simple removal of the programs is sufficient but maybe it is. I didn't do anything that is so secretive that I need to be uber careful. I just don't like having all my Inet accounts accesible by some "undelete program".
Now, this laptop did not come with a re-install CD. I was supposed to make one but I didn't b/c I have Technet, so I was going to get my OS from there.
Does anyone think I can return a totally wiped disk/computer with no OS on it? If not, I could put on the same version of Windows that they gave me if you think that would be the best bet. Any suggestions?
Below are all the reasons it is going back, if anyone cares.
First off it is a fire hazard with the power supply brick reaching over 235 degrees F on numerous occasions (tested with multiple infrared/laser thermometers, so it is accurate).
It is SLOW as hell, all browsers tend to get hung up whenever I switch to one of them, they just stop and I click and the screen goes whitish and it says non-responding at the top. If I immediately switch to another browser it is fine, until I click anywhere and then it does the same thing. It does this for all 4 browsers I use.
I can not run a virus scan without it stopping it for some reason
Updates will not complete - there is always a critical error somewhere that shuts it down and I have to shutdown and "recover or resume prior windows state". THis has happened on 5 occasions on updates.
This is a Toshiba laptop
I bought a laptop for $600+ and it is a total POS!
I want all my private info off. My Office doc's, Emails, Thunder-bird, Open Office, Browser histories, passwords, account names, etc (4 browsers).
I don't think a simple removal of the programs is sufficient but maybe it is. I didn't do anything that is so secretive that I need to be uber careful. I just don't like having all my Inet accounts accesible by some "undelete program".
Now, this laptop did not come with a re-install CD. I was supposed to make one but I didn't b/c I have Technet, so I was going to get my OS from there.
Does anyone think I can return a totally wiped disk/computer with no OS on it? If not, I could put on the same version of Windows that they gave me if you think that would be the best bet. Any suggestions?
Below are all the reasons it is going back, if anyone cares.
First off it is a fire hazard with the power supply brick reaching over 235 degrees F on numerous occasions (tested with multiple infrared/laser thermometers, so it is accurate).
It is SLOW as hell, all browsers tend to get hung up whenever I switch to one of them, they just stop and I click and the screen goes whitish and it says non-responding at the top. If I immediately switch to another browser it is fine, until I click anywhere and then it does the same thing. It does this for all 4 browsers I use.
I can not run a virus scan without it stopping it for some reason
Updates will not complete - there is always a critical error somewhere that shuts it down and I have to shutdown and "recover or resume prior windows state". THis has happened on 5 occasions on updates.
