Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge, Part 2

The last time I looked, Dell UK Outlet specifically excluded entitlement to a free W7 upgrade. Perhaps the US is different.

John

 

From my understanding it's to allow remote control of the computer for IT, in a company. For instance they can launch an ghost image onto your system, ir remote desktop and some stuff like that. I never saw it, never used it. That is simply my understanding. I don't know if it affects performance and/or battery life, but it should not affect anything of the software is not there.

 

I am unable to find the calibration option in the Dell Touchpad program?

 

John might be one of the updates,
I have that same BIOS and no issues running Vista.

 

there isn't a calibration option. there are just settings. whoever said that didn't mean it as more than that.

 

[edit] wrong post - Now fixed[/edit]

Open the Control Panel, then open the mouse proprety, you will have infornt of you a panel that opens at the tab location "Dell touch pad'. Click on the image, and then Dell touchpad configuration of sort, will appear, where you can adjust it's settings.

 

I disabled the webcam (which I never use) in Device Manager and the problem went away. A driver update for the webcam caused the same problem about 6 months back so I tried that first. However, the applied updates did not include the webcam driver.

John

 

anyone but me notice that the rubber feet (and more annoyingly) the rubber bumpers on the palm rest just fall off after 6ish months?

 

Don't have this issue here.

 

Just went and registered for the upgrade and everything went smoothly. When I put in the service tag off the laptop a message popped up saying it's eligible for a free upgrade. Nice! Completed the order process and got an order # and everything.

It came with XP installed, and both an XP Pro disc and a Vista Business disc. Looking forward to Win7.