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Geoff Buckley
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December 9th, 2007 09:00
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I installed this yesterday and disabled it in msconfig this morning. Reason - my computer took nearly 4 minutes to finish bootup and was then incredibly slow. I thought that all the bugs had been addressed in the new version.
London in winter is great!
Alexandra_P
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Posted December 10th, 2007 21:00
All I can say, after seeing nearly every thread posted on the new Support Center since it came out, is that the thing is fine for some, and either a farce or a horror show to others - even after the "fix".And yes, you should remove the old one; they do not always play well together. I kept them both disabled but manually runnable for a while, but removed them both completely today. It's just too bloated, invasive and troublesome for a utility that does nothing more than what I can do myself with a couple of extra clicks on the Dell web site, a few free utilities, and the standard maintenance procedures (MS/AV updates, defrag, IE cache, disk cleanup, etc.).And visiting the UK is on my list of things to do before I die, and it must at minimum include a stay in a castle.
Message Edited by Alexandra_P on 12-10-2007 04:35 PM- Since updating to the Dell Support Center my virus program is always popping up with things trying to access the internet for me to deny or allow; sprtsvc.exe and wmiprvse.exe and dsc.exe I've searched for these over the web but not being a super computer geek type I really don't know what to do with these. Upon searching: I find sprtsvc.exe is located in the Dell Support Center Folder so I'm assuming its okay to permanently allow access. The WMIPRSVE.EXE is found in my C drive under c:\I386, Windows\Prefetch folder and Windows\System32/WBEM I have no clue?? The last one is dsc.exe which appears in my Prefetch and Dell Support Center folder. Can anyone tell me what these are for? If they are okay to allow permanent access? I also find it takes my computer much longer to fully load on start up than it ever has. Thanks.
Geoff Buckley
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Posted December 12th, 2007 18:00
You can disable the whole thing and run it manually if you have a problem. That will stop it from running at startup.Geoff in London U.K.
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ADSL connection (8 Mb/s)- I had to uninstall Dell Support Center 2.0 because it kept crashing Everquest II. (Luckily when I was looking in the Everquest forums as to why I was having this particular crash someone else said if you've just installed Dell Support Center 2.0 to uninstall it, and that indeed solved my problem. I wrote that in the form where it asked for reasons why I was uninstalling it, so until someone asks me to install...say...Dell Support Center 2.0.5 or something that looks like they've fixed something, I have no intentions of going through all the hassles of installing this program only to have to uninstall it again.
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Posted December 10th, 2007 06:00