Otto09

Me too. First, how do I know what 'flavor' of vista I have? It's not like it's visible anywhere or you can find it in any directory that mortals can access. I'm sure the information is SOMEWHERE but how in the world is the ordinary customer supposed to know where to look?

Are all Microsoft customers assumed to have been born knowing precisely which iteration of which OS they may or may not have on every computer made?

How hard would it be to provide this information in an obvious place? Not hard. But what the hell does MS care if you waste an hour online trying to figure out the simplest connections?

I know, maybe the OS could detect the printer when you plug it in, and automatically find the correct driver! Seems to me that used to be standard procedure. No more.
Really great marketing decision, MS executives. Hope you all get big bonuses for that cost saving move.

Then, I see that one driver available for one of the Vista species is an 80 MB download. Isn't that rather large for one printer driver? What do they think I'll do with a printer, launch it to Saturn?

so if you can tell me how I find out what version of Vista my Dell Inspiron 15 has -- or even where I could find this out in less than two hours, ... and then how to get the Samsung CLP-300 to work with this very ordinary laptop, I will be most grateful.
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