GAH! *pulls out hair*

[ladydrace]

What are all these millions of strange programs installed on my netbook?? Why does the keyboard not type what's on the keys?? AND WHY WILL IT NOT ACCEPT THAT I DO NOT WANT TO CONNECT TO WIRELESS INTERNET!???

Sally... we need to have words. I know you're a netbook, but that's not what I bought you for. Seriously, dear, you can do so much more.

Comments

[thelibraniniquity]

The wireless thing is automatic. At least, it is with Boris. I mostly ignore the pre-installed programs, and I have no idea about the keyboard. That's just... weird :/

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

The keyboard is also the worst headache. The weird games and hyper annoying trial-everything can be removed and all that wireless poo is annoying but fairly easy to ignore. But the keyboard boggles me. Thank god for web search...

[thelibraniniquity]

The keyboard thing really is baffling. Good luck hunting down a solution for it :)

[hane-no-kori.livejournal.com]

Occasionally my laptop starts typing in French, but there's this little keyboard symbol beside the bar in the lower right corner which lets me switch it back to "US" typing, instead of "Canadian Multilingual Standard" or "Canadian French", whichever one it happened to switch to at the time. If you don't have one of those you might be able to find something under Keyboard in the Control Panel, or Google might tell you how to solve the problem.

As for wireless, I know with my laptop I have this little switch on the front that I can flick to tell it not to connect to wireless, but I know that there's an option in the wireless settings to stop it from connecting too. But as tli said, it is pretty much an automatic thing, though if you haven't actually got a router, it shouldn't be able to connect at all.

Pre-installed programs can be annoying, but you can uninstall them if it's something you're absolutely sure you won't need. But if you can't be sure, just leave them. Although, if it means you end up having multiple virus programs or something lie that, it can be a problem because each program can interfere with the others, so that's something you'll want to only have one of. If a few came with the computer, just try each of them and then pick the one you like, and uninstall the others.

Good luck with Sally! :D

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

According to Sally, we only have US typing. No other languages available. Although she's MORE than happy to hook me up with some wireless internet and download me some! She's a web addict, I'm tellin ya.

It's not actually connecting anything, but I get these blurps every 10 mins or so, telling me that there are plenty of wireless connections nearby and "would I like to log on one of them? Any one of them? Just for a little bit?!" It gets annoying after a while. But there must be some message settings somewhere. There HAS to be. Or I'll go crazy.

I deleted 15 different trial versions of apparently-best-shit-on-the-market and I can now breathe easier. *sigh*

I knew I should have cashed out the extra buck for a netbook with pre-installed what-I-want on it, instead of the cheap one with all the product whoring.

I think Sally is a bit of a tart...

[hane-no-kori.livejournal.com]

That's... really strange, then. Web addict, eh? LOL. A tart too? That's not good.

By the way, that icon made me lol. Kira's expression there is priceless. :D