Vista > XP
#21
i don't work there anymore, but if you don't feel like making the disks yourself, call up HP tech support and tell them you just got the computer and went to create the disks, and it says the disks have already been created and won't let you do it. and they'll send them to you free. good luck.
#23
the seven gigs is your recovery partition (ie. a soft version of your recovery CDs)
the RAM, I think part of the RAM is allocated to the video processing power... ie. the mobo ram helps the video card ram process things like aero features of vista home premium.
if I were you, and are going to run vista long term, go to tigerdirect and pick up another gig of laptop ram. beware, most laptops only have 2 slots for ram and both will be filled with 512, so if you get one gig, you take one 512 out and put the gig in, you're gonna end up with 1.5 gigs of ram.
1 GB is real tight for vista premium. that's why both my laptop and desktop run 2 gigs.
the RAM, I think part of the RAM is allocated to the video processing power... ie. the mobo ram helps the video card ram process things like aero features of vista home premium.
if I were you, and are going to run vista long term, go to tigerdirect and pick up another gig of laptop ram. beware, most laptops only have 2 slots for ram and both will be filled with 512, so if you get one gig, you take one 512 out and put the gig in, you're gonna end up with 1.5 gigs of ram.
1 GB is real tight for vista premium. that's why both my laptop and desktop run 2 gigs.
#27
the seven gigs is your recovery partition (ie. a soft version of your recovery CDs)
the RAM, I think part of the RAM is allocated to the video processing power... ie. the mobo ram helps the video card ram process things like aero features of vista home premium.
if I were you, and are going to run vista long term, go to tigerdirect and pick up another gig of laptop ram. beware, most laptops only have 2 slots for ram and both will be filled with 512, so if you get one gig, you take one 512 out and put the gig in, you're gonna end up with 1.5 gigs of ram.
1 GB is real tight for vista premium. that's why both my laptop and desktop run 2 gigs.
the RAM, I think part of the RAM is allocated to the video processing power... ie. the mobo ram helps the video card ram process things like aero features of vista home premium.
if I were you, and are going to run vista long term, go to tigerdirect and pick up another gig of laptop ram. beware, most laptops only have 2 slots for ram and both will be filled with 512, so if you get one gig, you take one 512 out and put the gig in, you're gonna end up with 1.5 gigs of ram.
1 GB is real tight for vista premium. that's why both my laptop and desktop run 2 gigs.
The laptop can handle 4GB max and there's suppose to be 2x512 in there now. Would another gig really make a diff in performance??
btw, what's a good program removal app that gets rid of everything...and I mean everything. If I uninstall most of these "factory" programs, I don't want anything let on the HD.
Last edited by Slvr-Bullet; 10-Oct-2007 at 09:11 PM.
#28
xray, your wife's work really needs to get with the program LOL
ok getting rid of the HP preinstalled software is in general a huge pain in the ***. a lot of times when you remove stuff there are parts of it left behind and you get all these wierd pop-ups all the time saying stuff can't be found. in particular, you're gonna have difficulty removing vonage, vongo... and whatever that picture service on there is. the rest of the bloated crap on there is just generally links to websites. HP total care advisor can be disabled from running in the options menu of the total care advisor. don't use msconfig to disable stuff... that's just a diagnostic tool, and as soon as windows gets an update, it resets the boot configuration and the stuff you thought you disabled will come back.
now, I don't remember all the steps (there are a LOT) for removing vongo and vonage... do a search and do it that way. alternatively, you can delete the directories from the hard drive, but then you'll have to find a registry cleaning utility that's gonna fix all the registry entries related to the folders you delete...
IMO, to save yourself the headaches, just delete the desktop icons and put it out of your mind. it takes so little room that it's not even worth worrying about. if you wanna see what your computer will do without the burden of having all the extra crapware, just boot into safe mode and see how it runs.
and yes, 1.5 GBs of ram makes a big difference for vista. if you wanna see, vista has this thing that allows you to use a memory stick as additional removable ram... so as long as you have a memory stick that's fast enough, it'll allow you to see what kinda diff it makes.
ok getting rid of the HP preinstalled software is in general a huge pain in the ***. a lot of times when you remove stuff there are parts of it left behind and you get all these wierd pop-ups all the time saying stuff can't be found. in particular, you're gonna have difficulty removing vonage, vongo... and whatever that picture service on there is. the rest of the bloated crap on there is just generally links to websites. HP total care advisor can be disabled from running in the options menu of the total care advisor. don't use msconfig to disable stuff... that's just a diagnostic tool, and as soon as windows gets an update, it resets the boot configuration and the stuff you thought you disabled will come back.
now, I don't remember all the steps (there are a LOT) for removing vongo and vonage... do a search and do it that way. alternatively, you can delete the directories from the hard drive, but then you'll have to find a registry cleaning utility that's gonna fix all the registry entries related to the folders you delete...
IMO, to save yourself the headaches, just delete the desktop icons and put it out of your mind. it takes so little room that it's not even worth worrying about. if you wanna see what your computer will do without the burden of having all the extra crapware, just boot into safe mode and see how it runs.
and yes, 1.5 GBs of ram makes a big difference for vista. if you wanna see, vista has this thing that allows you to use a memory stick as additional removable ram... so as long as you have a memory stick that's fast enough, it'll allow you to see what kinda diff it makes.
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#32
more ram for vista = good
it has a feature called pre-fetch, it learns what you do with your pc, what apps u load and use most often, and loads important files into the ram, this reduces load times by a huge amount, i'm talkin xx sec for photoshop cs3 down to 1-2sec
it has a feature called pre-fetch, it learns what you do with your pc, what apps u load and use most often, and loads important files into the ram, this reduces load times by a huge amount, i'm talkin xx sec for photoshop cs3 down to 1-2sec
#33
MS hasn't had the best memory managers in teh past, but that sounds like a (somewhat) useful addition...might have to see if I can find it on my Vista machine at home..
#34
:P for the first week or so of use, vista won't be a big difference in speed vs xp, but once it learns its users habbits, it picks up, it indexs drives, super-fetch, and i think re-organizes the drive for the best access(sorta like 24/7 defrag i think(not sure on this one))
#38
I couldn't disagree more about both statements. I haven't seen too many women using Apple computers, and as for the XP vs. Vista goes, I think there are other people on this forum who can comment on that.
#39
as for the vista vs xp... get with the times man. main reason ppl don't like vista is cuz they don't know how to use it. anyone who doesn't like it simply hasn't given it a fair chance. vista kicks ***! XP is
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