The Acer Guy

That title wasn’t meant to scare you – but prepare you.
Acer have put together a specific page to deal with Acer owners wishing to upgrade to the latest Operating System from Microsoft. You can find it here:
http://www.acer.com/windows7/eng/

If you click on the link or picture above you’ll see that the page is divided into three, easy-to-follow [...]

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Just a quick post to thank Paula Sutton who just wrote to me with this solution for the problem she was having getting her laptop to “see” her optical drive. In addition to solving this particular issue, this Acer FAQ page might also provide some answers to other issues you may run up against so [...]

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Hello everyone, it’s been a while since I reviewed or wrote an article for you guys, but I’ve been asked to introduce the future of easy LAN connection – Bravura Easy Computer Sync™.
This product allows you to transfer files directly from one PC to another using USB specification, in other words, you can now easily [...]

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OK, let’s start the week off with the bad news.
I got this feed through my Tweetscan reader and as I’m not one to shy away from stuff like this, I thought I’d bring it to your attention as well.
On 19th March, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission posted a recall alert regarding the Acer Predator [...]

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John Daniels wrote me a mail with some information I just had to share.
Many thanks for this John.
“Thought this might be of use for your website
Anyone having a problem with Adobe Dreamweaver not loading on an Acer, it is caused by a conflict with the Acer eDataSecurity Management program a patch is available here [...]

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Sascha from Netbook News posted what is probably the world’s first review of the 10″ Aspire One that is definitely worth a look.

I think I should clear something up (or start a debate) though. Although this is for all intents and purposes the second model from the Aspire One range, it is by no means to be considered a second-generation netbook. I’ve seen the road map, talked to the bosses, named some of the models and know what’s coming and the advances in both design and specs of the second (and then third gen. models) are astounding.

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If any of you were wondering what that ugly blue icon is to the left of your names in the comments box on the bottom right of this page and also to the left of your comments in the articles themselves, well it’s the GRAVATAR icon.

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If you are a Microsoft Visual Studio user (a developer like me) and have a problem with 8920G’s Touchpad Virtual Scrolling, then here is the solution.
Acer Aspire 8920G comes with Windows Vista preinstalled. By default it has User Account Control (UAC) enabled to make your computer secure. But since Microsoft Visual Studio users should run [...]

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Many of your questions and problems concerning the Aspire One (Linux edition) come from the fact that a lot of you don’t remember the password you set when you first turned on the machine.

Well, rather than reinstalling everything from the recovery disk which effectively resets everything including the root password, there is a better solution

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In the first of the “How to…” series of videos, I look at how to set up a Recovery Flash Drive from the Aspire One’s Recovery DVD and then how to do the actual recovery.

I need to make it clear that this video applies to the Linux version of the Aspire One. The XP version is an entirely different ballgame and as many of you have pointed out, does not contain a recovery disk as there is a form of eRecovery already installed on the machine.

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