Will keep you posted.

right now, I'm having problems blogging because key's seem to have multiple functions.

the M button was acting like carriage return. O was working as open, again without my pressing any other button besides O. T was opening a new tab in IE.

The download support from Dell was giving me problems, had to download each driver separately.

Still the thing that's bothering me the most is the odd looking GUI. Too OS X for my tastes. I'm trying to find where I can switch to classic view, but I'm busy downloading other programs, itunes, ad-aware, spybot, AVG.

Any recommendations for freeware photo/video editing software?

I meant Control + O = Open

#23 | Posted by Timex

Yeah, I'm familiar with the shortcuts. Maybe I was leaning on something while I was typing because its not happening now. The keyboard is a bit larger than the one I'd been using on my wife's mini VAIO, so my hands don't feel like they're in their natural position just yet.

Just now as I was editing the spelling in my post, the cursor was going from word to word with each press of the Left arrow button. I don't know.

The last thing I'll gripe about before going to be is that the F keys seem to only work when pressing the Fn button. Again, I think that's a Dell thing, not a W7 thing.

Good night to ally'all.

#29

gimp is what was recommended to me, smedley. thanks for the concurring opinion.

When I say that in my perfect English, my husband asks, "Would you please say that again?" HA!

#27 | Posted by nanc

He just loves the sound of your voice, nanc. I'm sure he asks you to repeat yourself a lot of times, just to hear you speak.

But it's all-y'all, pronounced quickly.

I've been on the phone for an hour being bounced back and forth from customer care to technical support to i don't know where, because dell did not ship a copy of the windows 7 operating system.

AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

One hour twenty minutes.

One hour and thirty five minutes. Damn.

Now I get to wait 5 to 7 business days to see if they send me what I need.

In 7 days if I'm not satisfied I just might.

I presume this is in reference to the Dell keyboard?
#39 | Posted by redlightrobot

No, I actually didn't get a copy of W7 in case I ever have to reinstall the OS. It was a hassle, but I think they're going to send me a copy.

This is my third dell inspiron laptop purchased over the last 10 years and I've always had good experiences. Okay, the first one I bought had ME and crashed permanently about a month after my service contract expired, but apart from that, no real problems.

It's a little frustrating when you get the Indian tech support, but they've always helped me with whatever problems I've ever had.

And I figured out my keyboard issue. The way I type, my hand rests on the touchpad, which was set to function as the ctrl key in certain instances. keep my palm off the touchpad and no problems.