I got this laptop…And I insterted my usb flash drive in the drive and went to "my computer" and it was no where to be found…a lil box pops up saying that that program hasn’t been installed…I put my digital camera connections in the drive too and nothing…and I don’t even have a windows media music player… nor a microsoft office file…I bought this laptop on ebay…its nice and in good condition but I can’t work it and I even bought the extra wireless adapter and I don’t know how to add internet…I know there are many people outthere well knowledged about all this…can someone please help me??? I gave a description of my laptop below of what it should do But I can’t do a thing!
DELL CPi LAPTOP COMPUTER
►INTERNET READY
►WORKS WILL ALL DIGITAL CAMERAS
►WORKS WITH ALL PRINTERS
►CD Drive Included
►STORE & PLAY YOUR MP3 MUSIC FILES
►Commercial Quality
►EASILY UPGRADEABLE
►EMAIL SOFTWARE INCLUDED
►FULLY PROTECTED AGAINST VIRUSES
Printer Media, Computers & Internet
June 19th, 2011 on 2:02 pm
Perhaps you should do some homework, and take a course on basic PC use. This way, when it happens again, because it will, you will be armed with the tools that you need to deal with the problem yourself.
A good starting point would be the "For Dummies" line of books. Don’t be turned off by the title, they have many informative books on all sorts of topics.
Unfortunately, without someone actually seeing your PC, they will not be able to help you.
You are going to need patience, and the willingness to learn about such things, if you want to have a good experience with them.
It’s not like on TV where things just magically work. They are trying to sell you something, and have everything configured so that it looks this way. In the REAL world, those of us who have acquired our knowledge of computers have read many boring manuals, and we still have problems.
And though manuals are better written, they are very hard to write so that ANYONE can understand them. Just ask my friend, the documentation specialist, Euripides Upmann.
You need to read some books and manuals, and maybe even take a course. Otherwise your laptop will be a living hell for you.
June 19th, 2011 on 2:02 pm
Sounds like you need to reinstall Windows, don’t suppose you got the original recovery disks did you?
If you did not then you have to buy another copy of Windows XP
Buyer beware…..
also possible the USB ports are dead, no solution for that other than another computer.
June 19th, 2011 on 2:02 pm
That sounds like any computer from the past ten or so years. Any way was this a used lap top? Sounds like a messed up drive maybe. When you go to my computer what drives does it list? When I put my thumb drive in any computer it open in the task thing at the bottom by the clock and all I have to do is hit explore and pow it opens. However with that any computer I plug into must have the abilty to open the files. If the software or drivers don’t exist it will not work.