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THANK YOU!! This worked for me after my stupid laptop kept saying recovery partition not found (even though it was there and perfectly fine). F11 even works now (no prompt at boot, but it works) HP/Compaq's "tech support" was a joke, literally no help at all and a total waste of time. Big FU's fly out to them. Did the restore on a spare hard drive just to make sure all was well. Now that I've got that safety net, time to play with 7 on this puppy On a side note, does anyone know the maximum CPU that the Compaq Presario F500 line (and its HP cousins) support? HP's official answer is the TL-58, but I have a feeling you can probably get away with something better, the TL-62 is a nice bump up from the stock CPU and not too expensive. The TL-66/68 are insanely expensive right now, however.

How about sharing some more hardcore settings (with warnings) ... or if they're that bad, PM them to me (with warnings)

Looks like we largely share a lot of the same ideas on those services, you only have a few that I didn't disable already

Thanks for the feedback This is a pretty "rough" tweak, I know it probably needs more polish, but I have done some experimentation already, and found a few things that, if removed, windows won't even install, even though I don't have that hardware at all (go figure). I don't expect to go as far as the thread where the posters got it down to 40MB of ram (and less) those tweaks make the OS pretty much unusable for practical purposes (but great for game-only boxes). The hardware is largely inconsequential. Anything that throws a ! in device manager I load the proper driver for (on a real box, not a virtual box) ... the virtual box is just for quick load testing. Chipset driver is a pretty big one, once you have that loaded, the rest usually falls into place. I'm working on some new hardware now with this experimental build, and the only missing drivers have been the network, sound, and video after loading the chipset drivers. Easily handled I prefer more to disable services when I can than completely remove them, that way you have the option to turn them on again if need be. Having said that, what other services do you think should be disabled?

Let me know how I'm doing so far. These tweaks are designed for a newer desktop machine. Using about 60-70MB of ram on my virtual machine. LAST_SESSION.INI