Lousy Lojack

[chelet]

I received my third M1330 today and I am having problems with the Lojack.
Instead of being on a separate CD, as was true of every previous computer I ordered from Dell, Dell preinstalled -- or partly preinstalled Lojack, and it is causing a glitch. Check the thumbnail. This piece of the installer graphic shows up in the corner and covers anything in that part of the screen. It's "always on top." This d@mn thing shows up shortly after the computer is rebooted.

I care more about getting rid of this piece, which essentially takes a usable chunk out of the upper left corner of my screen, than about the "protection" Lojack supposedly confers. There is an icon to "activate" Lojack, but when I clicked it it downloaded an installer and said UAC might show up when I ran it. From that I infer that Lojack isn't actually fully installed. However there is a "Lojack Factory Installer" in Add/Remove Programs.

Which is more likely to get rid of this stupid Lojack glitch? Uninstalling from Add/Remove Programs or installing the rest of Lojack? If I complete the install, will I ever be able to uninstall it?

[BatBoy]

Check your BIOS settings. There should be a section for LOJACK. Be sure to read all the info in full be making a choince in the BIOS setting. I recall something about deactivating it a perm thing.

[Lucanesti]

Disableing that could be a huge mistake.

[wywern209]

well if u got a lojjack reinstall cd , delete and reinstall!

[Fountainhead]

I received my third M1330 today and I am having problems with the Lojack.
Instead of being on a separate CD, as was true of every previous computer I ordered from Dell, Dell preinstalled -- or partly preinstalled Lojack, and it is causing a glitch. Check the thumbnail. This piece of the installer graphic shows up in the corner and covers anything in that part of the screen. It's "always on top." This d@mn thing shows up shortly after the computer is rebooted.

That's pretty odd. Since you just got the notebook today, I wonder if you could just do a system restore?

[chelet]

I'm going to check the BIOS.
They didn't include a Lojack CD with the laptop.

[BatBoy]

Yeah it should be set at Deactivated/Not Active. There is a choice to DISABLE it forever, but I wouldnt suggest it.

I just leave mine alone @ default settings. I have never had anything pop up in windows but then again my lappie is almost 2 years old. Perhaps they didnt install a software app back then.

I have always wondered if the lojack would drain on sys resources, why I never bothered to enable it.

Oh well - good luck.