Re: [OT] New toys, new problems?

Lukas Mariman wrote:
> Greeting, carbon units!
> 
> I just went crazy (again) and got me a new PC.
> 
> After years of upgrading my existing box piece by piece every so often, 
> I wanted to take the other route and got me a brand PC.
> 
> I bought an Acer Aspire M3610, which has an Intel Core 2 Quad processor,

> and comes with Vista Home Premium (and some assorted software included) 
> preloaded.
> 
> Naturally, there don't seem to be any physical copies of Vista or 
> anything else that was installed  - instead there's some bare-bones 
> do***entation that doesn't really help at all, and a few blank 
> "recovery" DVDs.
> 
> Still figuring out how I am supposed to make a backup of Vista. :-/
> 
> Anyway, just sharing this touching stuff with you dudes/dudettes. If any

> of you have Acer stuff as well, I'd love to read what you think of it. 
> Any experiences, horror stories etc. :-)

"Recovery discs" shouldn't be blank. If they are something's wrong. 
Either that, or they are blank DVDs provided for you to make your own 
recovery discs? In which case there must be a program somewhere on the 
computer that will create those discs, or just enable you to reset the 
pc to it's factory settings - it's probably all on its own partition.

LH