Dell Garbage and Infinite Install Loop
Well I got the E1505 today. It was loaded with extra garbage. I deleted the virus protection and everything else that I don't need, and there were tons of registry entries left over. When I removed them and compressed the registry, there was 13% wasted space.
I got the Sonic continuous update loop again. To me it is UNFATHOMABLE that Dell knows about this and doesn't do anything about it. Anyone who gets a laptop who uninstalls the extras will end up with this loop. Everytime Windows boots a Sonic install runs asking for disk 1.
Christopher Muto Christopher, it would seem that your atbreastude is that Dell's are cheap and you should expect nothing less from a company that provides cheap computers. Do you...
When I got my 630m I was baffled, and tried all sorts of things including uninstalling Sonic, and even that didn't help.
I did a Google search and found that many people were having the same problem. Some poor souls went into the registry manually deleting things, and others attempted many other kinds of fixes.
All that needs to be done is for an InstallShield update file to be downloaded and run. The problem has nothing to do with Sonic.
So, I am a fairly competant user, but I can empathize with all of the "usual" users out there -- like my mother, who would get this and never be able to solve it on her own.
Yet Dell continues to sell laptops with this problem. I can't comprehend why they would do that -- is it a quality control issue in which their current baseload has been tested and in order to make a small change they would need to go through exhaustive testing again to make sure fixing this doesn't break something else?
Anyway, that's my rant. At least if I see someone post here about that problem I'll be able to direct them quickly to a solution.
Journey