March 28, 2004

Tech Help

Over the past 12 hours I've had an WinME problem (first major one in 3+ years) with explorer not liking the WININET.DLL file. I fixed it using the help from this forum. This is a reason for having a multicomputer house. I would have had to enter purgatory by calling up Dell's help desk. Are they still sending calls to India? This incident has reminded me that I'm due for a new desktop loaded with WinXP, lots more memory, a big hard drive, a DVD player, and USB 2.0 so I could start thinking about getting an iPod. I rarely gameplay and use my computer mostly for surfing, weblogging, and (legal) music downloading. I'm partial to Dell because this machine has run so smoothly, but does anyone have any other suggestions for other companies? Are eMachines still as poorly constructed as I remember them? How about HP, Compaq, or Gateway?