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    Will you be upgrading to Windows 7?

    in The Poll Center

    Posted · Edited by adrian2055

    No, I won't upgrade when it comes out. I'm gonna wait awhile. Vista runs very fast on my brand new laptop. I have no issues with it. The only thing I liked about Windows 7 is the theme. That's not worth the cost of upgrading when I just paid nearly $800 for a new laptop less than 4 months ago. Plus vista sp2 meets all my needs. No reason to waste money on the latest stuff to end up with the same results. I went from 98se to xp the day it was released and the performance was about the same which is what I'm getting with vista and windows 7. No difference performance wise. I will save my money and wait.

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    clean reinstall vista from pre-install HP Pavillion laptop

    in Windows Vista

    Posted

    You can use your original vista disks with the key on the bottom of your laptop to do a fresh install. Here's what I did: I purchased a compaq laptop in february that had vista home premium on it and all the bloated crap that hp decided to install on it. Well, I had purchased vista ultimate from circuit city a month before that. I wiped out the hard drive, started the install and entered my vista home premium key in during the installation and it installed a fresh copy of vista home premium on my laptop. All you have to do is go through the activation process once you get to your desktop. I've redone this several times and it worked each time. Don't know about using a friend's disc. I'll let someone else weigh in on that one.

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    TMPGEnc Compatability Question

    in Windows 7

    Posted · Edited by adrian2055

    Hi Guys,

    I see that a lot of new builds have leaked (according to windows7news.com) and I was wondering if any of the TMPGEnc Products will work on windows 7 yet. I'm mainly wondering about TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress. The last one I used was 7100 that I got from the windows 7 main site and It didn't work.

    ******************************If this is in the wrong section I apologize******************************

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    Can someone tell me what this is?

    in Malware Prevention and Security

    Posted

    Thanks for the response. This file popped up when I started my pc. I wasn't connected to the internet and didn't have any torrents downloading. I opened the txt file and this is what in it:

    4,0,1,7fa0370,0,0,0,cb,cb

    4,1,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    4,2,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    4,3,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    13,0,1,7fa0370,0,0,0,cb,cb

    13,1,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    13,2,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    26,0,1,7fa0370,0,0,0,cb,cb

    26,1,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    26,2,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    26,3,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    26,0,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    26,0,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    26,0,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    26,0,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    26,0,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    26,0,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    26,1,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    26,2,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    26,3,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    26,0,1,7fa0370,2,0,cb,cb,cb

    I don't know what to make of this. Do I need to re-install vista again?

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    Can anyone recommend a good program to remove spyware?

    in Software Hangout

    Posted · Edited by adrian2055

    As I was downloading the latest update for ad-aware se pro today I read on their site that they are going to stop giving definition updates for the program at the end of the month :realmad: :

    http://www.lavasoft.com/mylavasoft/company/blog

    The only solution is to upgrade. Now, I've tried the latest free version of their program on my new laptop and it always freezes and I have to restart it. Keep in mind...these are my specs:

    Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition SP1 64-Bit Version

    2.00 GHz AMD Athlon X2 QL-62 Dual-Core Processor

    1MB L2 Cache

    4 GB Ram

    NVIDIA GeForce 8200M (Up to 895MB Video Memory)

    250GB Hard Drive (5400RPM)

    SuperMulti 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support

    15.6" Diagonal High Definition HP BrightView Display (1366x768)

    56k modem

    NIntegrated 10/100 Ethernet LAN

    802.11b/g WLAN

    5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader

    There's no reason this pc should freeze up and it only freezes with the latest version. The one time it didn't freeze up it took over 7 hours to scan my pc. Ad-Aware Se scanned my pc in 30 minutes and found more spyware than the latest version. So It looks like I'm gonna have to switch before the end of the month :realmad: . Can anyone recommed a good program?

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    Vista X64...........Worth Moving To?

    in Windows Vista

    Posted · Edited by adrian2055

    Extractions and copying is still very slow on x64.

    For you perhaps. I first installed Vista x86 after SP1 came out, and I've never, ever had any of those issues. In fact, on many file operations, it's noticeably faster.

    Either ways, I certainly wouldn't want to run Vista on 512MB, much less the x64 version (6GB here, moving up to 8GB in a few days). In fact, I wouldn't even want to run XP on that much... Buy some more RAM if you don't like having a slow PC. Oh, and BTW, most external drives are kind of slow (USB2 controllers are like that, most of such devices top around 30-some MBs/sec in real-life, nothing to do with Vista).

    I'm not gonna run it on 512MB. I'm not crazy. I just got this laptop last week from a co-worker and I plan on upgrading the memory next friday. I just had a vlited vista disc handy so I installed it and put all my programs on there so I didn't have to do that next week.

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    Vista X64...........Worth Moving To?

    in Windows Vista

    Posted

    What OS are you running now?

    Also, using x64 uses more ram than x86, so that is something to consider. On x86 with 4Gb or RAM, average ram usage is 700-900mb. On x64, RAM usage is 800mb to 1.2Gb.

    Also, x64 has a really hard time making RAM free after software installations (mostly games) and requires a reboot to clear up the RAM.

    Going x64 however, helps keep away various forms of malicious nasties. Not all, but a bunch are useless as they cannot function in 64-bit.

    Extractions and copying is still very slow on x64. Faster than pre-SP1, but still waaaay to slow compared to XP

    However, after using Vista Ultimate SP1 x64 since July 2008, I would say hold off. It still has issues and stiiiilllll feels like an un-finished product.

    Thanks for the reply. I'm using vista business 32-bit (vlited) now. I kept hearing so much about x64 that I thought I would jump in and see what all the fuss is about, but if it's as slow as you're saying it is w/ copying and extracting files and uses more memory to function I think I need to hold off. Vista x86 is slow enough when It comes to copying files to my external drive. I don't need anything that goes slower.

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    Vista X64...........Worth Moving To?

    in Windows Vista

    Posted · Edited by adrian2055

    Hi Guys, Me Again :hello: ,

    This time I don't have any problems :thumbup Just some questions.

    I was playing around today when I think I discovered that my laptop can use the 64-bit version of vista (correct me if I'm wrong).

    http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zxvzvec1.jpg

    If this is true I'm wondering if it's worth it to switch from the 32-bit version of vista to the 64-bit version, and if someone here knows about the wow emulator (I think that's what it's called) that can run 32-bit programs on a 64-bit pc.

    Now these are my current settings:

    1.8 GHz AMD Turion64 Mobile ML-32 Processor

    Seagate Momentus 80GB HardDrive (5400RPM)

    512 MB DDR RAM

    PIONEER DVR-K16 8x DVD-RW Drive

    ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 200 Series (128 Dedicated, 256 Shared Video Memory)

    Conexant AC-Link Audio Driver

    The only thing that will change is my memory. I'm buying 2GB of ram in a few days (called HP tech support todat and they said that I can go any higher). Is it worth the switch?

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    Can someone explain this to me? (Personal Education)

    in Hardware Hangout

    Posted

    Well, the onboard video is way better on the laptop. The CPU in your laptop for sure outperforms the ageing P4, so I´m not surprised there. I can´t say much about the hard disk drives but even there I would be not surprised if the 80GB 2.5" drives runs circles around the 160GB 3.5" drive.

    I would throw in another GB in that laptop, it´s worth every penny...

    I plan on going up to 2GB of ram this week. I didn't realize that the AMD processor would outperform the P4, but it clearly has. I may stick with AMD from now on.

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    Can someone explain this to me? (Personal Education)

    in Hardware Hangout

    Posted · Edited by adrian2055

    I had a HP-Compaq desktop (that died today) with these settings:

    Intel Pentium 4 HT 2.8 Ghz Processor (Single Core)

    2 Ghz DDR RAM (Can Go Up To 4GB)

    Western Digital 160 GB Hard Drive (7200 RPM)

    Lite-On DH20A4P 16X DVD-RW Drive

    Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller (96MB Video Memory)

    SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio

    and I just purchased an HP Pavilion laptop this week with these settings:

    1.8 GHz AMD Turion64 Mobile ML-32 Processor

    Seagate Momentus 80GB HardDrive (5400RPM)

    512 MB DDR RAM (Can Go Up To 2GB)

    PIONEER DVR-K16 8x DVD-RW Drive

    ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 200 Series (128 Dedicated, 256 Shared Video Memory)

    Conexant AC-Link Audio Driver

    What I'm wondering is why the AMD laptop seems to works so much better than the Intel Desktop (tried xp and vista on both). I would think the one with more memory and a better processor would work better. Now I don't know anything about AMD processors as this is my first pc with one. I've always thought Intel Processors were better than AMD and have avioded AMD for awhile. My games run smoother on the laptop and everything seems to work much faster than on the desktop even with less memory. Is there a reason for this?

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