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Article #168Re: Dell "personalised" web page woes
From: David Lawson
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:00
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In article <IlM64NBXYVp4EwDO@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk>, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk> writes >I set up my "personalised" page at; > > http://support.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home.asp > >which is supposed, based on the unique identification of this PC, to >show what driver upgrades are available for it. > >It doesn't seem very personalised. As far as I remember, the personalisation is only a recognition of your machine code to tell you which model you have. You can choose that for yourself. > Not only are there broken links, but >several of the items seem to be redundant, or duplicate - Win NT >drivers, Win 95 patches, and patches for other territories, when I'm >using Win 98, as supplied, in the UK. They tend to leave all the drivers on the page because the personalisation is so broad. > >How am I, let alone a technically naive user, supposed to know which >drivers are the correct ones to use? > What are you looking for? >When I tried to report the problem, the scripting on their "comment" >form was broken. I gave up bothering with comments because they never got answered. -- David Lawson - London
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