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Manufacturer support of OEM software (none / 0) (#12)
by Anonymous User on Wed Jun 23, 2004 at 09:46:18 AM PDT

The reason that the hardware manufacturer should suppport the OEM software installed on thier products is that they usually alter some of the default settings to the point that unless you know what they have changed, even Microsoft may have trouble fixing some of the problems. The option that this user needed set may have been set by default my Microsoft, but changed by Dell. Would you know what to do in that case without a lot of research? That is why I will not buy/use OEM software! The first thing that I do with the corporate computers that I buy is wipe the hard drive and reinstall the OS.


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