From: "Gary Britt" 

Where's the setting to turn UPnP off in XP.  I'm not sure if I ever found
it and turned it off on my peer network at home.

Dell for bargain priced machines are pretty good, and they have good
support through their website.  My wife says their telephone support has
gone the way of the do do bird, however.  I've never used their telephone
support, but my wife who is more computer savvy than the average secretary,
but far from a techie of any kind does use telephone support from time to
time. Based upon her description of her last experience with trying to
troubleshoot what may be an almost bad DVD RW drive, it may be that Dell
has sent their telephone support offshore to India or some other place. 
She has given up trying to use their telephone support, she found it so
frustrating.

As Dell and Gateway, etc. lose any semblance of telephone support, etc., as
they continue to cut costs, using no-name clones with brand components and
real hardware upgrade paths, but with either no or practically no support
(except from individual component manufacturers maybe) seems the best
hardware way to go for people with some hardware and systems knowledge.

In fact Dell's business plan for the future is apparently following some of
what IBM did in the early 90's.  Transformation into an IT service company
with pc and *other* hardware manufacture/sales.

Gary

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:425fbf9d{at}w3.nls.net...
> UPnP is off on the router and on all machines here.  Lately, it's been
turned
> off in the as-shipped state, from Dell, at least.  I'm continually
impressed
> at the nice "little things" in the current XP Pro HD image
from Dell Small
> Business.  Nearly every (small, deep-in-the-menus) choice is the one I
would
> have made.  Yes, it's still SP2 and they ship with the Teletubbies'
Hillside,
> no-icons look.  But within those constraints, there's evidence that
someone at
> Dell actually uses computers, heavily. All this at basement prices.  One
> notices.
>
> Hibernation is still on, on Dell desktops, though.  I trust them so much
that
> I take that as an augury, and leave it on.
>
>
>
>

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