Amber, you're sweet, but....  

Don't even start me on Vista LOL I really don't care how many people like it, I find it the most horrible OS I have found so far, not even millennium was this bad grrrr
WHen we bought this one I did ask if they had any with XP but the answer was no. Although sweet Amber told me that I could have asked if I could "downgrade" at the time I bought this one - they call it downgrade to XP, I'd call it complete upgrage LOL
As for ubuntu I've been thinking about it. We've been giving it a try in another one of our computers and so far, it's great.

LOL smart girl GG ( I never asked you if you mind when I call you GG instead of GardenGerty, hope you don't mind ).
I usually am my own tech support LOL but since I felt this was a toshiba issue, I decided to call. Oh well ....
But yes, thankfully I got a live person, I hate when I want to talk to someone because my question doesn't fit into any of the numbers they're giving, and have to keep going around and around and can't find any sometimes I just keep clicking zero because often that does actually take you to a live person.

Yeah, I don't think I will be buying another toshiba notebook anytime soon. Although I had a toshiba tv and it worked like a charm.
I think that in time people will get used to everything - even really better operating systems LOL.
I will say that vista has some positive things, but it to me it seems that it was rushed to come out and that it has many things/bugs that should have been worked out before coming out. Of course there are other things that really bother me in it as well, but slowly I am finding ways around them. Still....for now I don't like it LOL

They really count on the customer base to debug it. I remember someone telling me that XP was awful about the time I got it.

hey,,i have a laptop dell brand..it was given to me from a friend as a gift..after 2 months from using my battery stop working..its already useless,,it hurts me a lot..what would be the possible problem for that?

Hi twin dear :):):)
I actually like the sleep function, and it always worked perfectly on my other laptop. I guess Toshiba doesn't like to sleep LOL
This girl was supposed to be tech support, and if this is a known issue with Toshiba they should have found a way to fix it at the factory level, but as tech support she didn't show like she knew much....oh well, she was sweet hehehehe

bonito_ejo, I have heard about other people complaining about dell and batteries.Actually a few years back dell recalled a lot of units because of battery issues.
So the computer is only 2 months? Did you try taking out the battery and inserting it back again?
Batteries seem to be quite sensitive to power fluctuations,and even temperature or humidity. If there is a surge they sometimes get damaged.
If the computer/battery was older, I would say that the battery might have run its course, but at 2 months that shouldn't be the issue.

LOL Yeah I'm sure half the people on the planet - at least - might know her hehehehe
I could hear the pages of the manual LOL
Hope you're having a wonderful day :)

Yeah...that sounds like tech support LOL
I still don't like Vista either. But it's hard - close to impossible - to find anything without it now. And I wouldn't pay to downgrade to XP - although I would call it upgrade :) -
As for Hulu, I"m not too much into watching tv on my computer, so I don't have it, but I hear it's coming along great.
I think that for the most part - or a big part at least - it works better if we can be our own tech support LOL
I'm usually pretty good, but since this seemed a Toshiba issue, I decided they should deal with it. I guess they showed me LOL

Typical LOL
Better than to reinstall the same OS, is finding a better one and tell Microsoft to go fry an egg hehehehe

VISTA but I wouldn't pay for a "downgrade" either.
Windows 7 at least has better reviews. I'm testing Ubunto (Linux was always something we thought about, but for our use too techie, ubunto is quite close to what people are normally used to so )
You are quite right. Tech support used to work. When the people hired actually knew about what they were talking about. But to hire people that know, is expensive, so no wonder we're left with... well what we are left with
They can be nice and sweet, and really be trying to help, but for the most part, are not exactly qualified for the job. I'm sure they might be able to learn as they continue in that job, but not everyone is tech enabled LOL

I did not ask where she was. But I'm assuming that somewhere where Toshiba would have to pay the least possible - pretty soon probably on Mars LOL
I did read about Toshiba's sleep function problem. But hey, that should have been fixed once it became apparent that it was a problem.( of course the blame is on us, the consumers that continue to buy the darn things )
I was just in hopes that there was something to fix it, since I do like my laptop to every once in a while.What's the point on having a function that doesn't work ?
I actually have other issues but for those I might have to look beyond Toshiba - like after being on firefox for sometime without typing anything then I can't go into a new page, it just says done but does nothing, or says stopped. I can close firefox, but it will still be on processes in task manager and there is no way to stop that process.Eventually I can't even turn down the stupid computer and have to turn off with the button. Not nice, and never happened with my other laptop - but then again the other one had XP

...they replaced my screen twice already for free...after I requested someone who is in USA...not in Pakistan or Guatemala...but I can not turn it of for last 6 months...
Also, screen is black when computer is in prolonged sleep option on its own....I guess I make it tired..........