Please accept my apologies for being so short. I have been quite frustrated of late. This laptop I purchased thru eBay from what I thought was a valued person, one who has ignored me.
I have found that this laptop by which I am writing to you, one whose hard drive I have formatted, one that contains no data from the original owner, one that has only my data, is a laptop whose BIOS I cannot configure. This is due to the questionable infinite wisdom of Dell and whoever developed the policy that disallows the access to the BIOS administrator password to anyone other than the registered owner. This policy is protecting no one. It has not protected the registered owner from me. That persons data is gone forever into the infinite ether.
Anyway, now to the original reason for this post.
Your comment is interesting. That is, that my desktop PC, with its identical install to this laptop, is not responding as you say. I have set the Windows firewall to OFF and it indicates OFF. The Norton firewall is ON.
Also, prior to formatting this laptops hardrive and installing my stuff, the Windows firewall responded identical to the desktop PC. The Windows firewall was set to OFF and is indicated same.
Your comment runs contrary to two installs. Can you understand my concern? I could only assume that there was something wrong with this install, one which you say is correct.
If it is correct then what is wong with my desktop?
Again, please forgive my behavior.
Jerry
