E6500 clean install

Hello everybody.
I got my e6500 thursday and I have been playing around with it during this weekend. Reinstalled it like 5 times
First impressions of this laptop that it sure is made with good materials.

Now for my questions. Since I reformated my harddrive I lost that dell bla bla installation when you press F8 during boot. Can I make such a partition by my self?

Do anybody have some kinda HOW TO or WHAT TO install first?

What antivirus should I use. I tried PANDA during weekend but it was totally buggy.

The lights on this laptop in the upper left corner, I just get the wifi lamp and bluetooth lamp to light up. What is the lamp to the right of the blue tooth lamp for?

The dell driver for profiles due different networks is a total mess for me. If somebody here knows how I should install it please let me know.

Thanks for a great forum.

My compture:
E6500 T9600 4gb ram Nvidia 1920x???? res. 250gh HD

 

Supposedly you should install the "Notebook System Software" first, though I did not on my E6400 and it works fine.

Be sure to install the Intel Storage Matrix Driver as well. Use the newest one on the Dell website, not off of the disk.

Personally, I use AVG and I haven't had any problems, it also doesn't seem to use much in the line of resources to run. The LED next to the bluetooth is for WWAN, such as Sprint or Verizon.

"The dell driver for profiles due different networks is a total mess for me. If somebody here knows how I should install it please let me know."

Sorry, I have no idea what you are asking here.

Greg

 

ControlPoint Connection manager was the application I was refering to. DISASTER!

And thanks for the tips Speedy.

 

Unless you have and use the WWAN card, ControlPoint Connection Manager is completely unnecessary. I didn't install it, I just use Windows to manage my wireless networks.

Greg

 

I unistalled it also.

But I will have a problem with different networs. Home vs work but hopefully I will work out how to tackle that problem.

Havent got AutoCAD installed yett but will do that tomorrow to see this baby in action.

 

By the way do AVG work together with DAEMON TOOLS?

 

Another thing... How come I see a fingerpoint reader although I didnt order it

 

Here is another question:
Is there some kind of program that checks my drivers against dells homepage for updates?

Would be neat

 

How so are you having problems with different networks? What wireless card did you order?

So you got a free FP reader? Nice.

I can't help you with your AVG question, since I don't know what Daemon Tools is. I can say that my combo of AVG, Spybot S&D, Adaware, and Windows Defender works fine.

I don't believe that there is any automatic program that checks for up to date drivers.

Greg

 

Thanks for the avg tip