SRL Archive - NOTA

I have been saving up for about two years; as of recent, I was able to finally purchase a laptop. Without the help of parents, relatives, or the like (I payed completely for it), I bought myself a laptop. It is a 16'' hp dv6. With a 16'' screen you can view in true high definition wide screen (16:9). Here are the important specs:
AMD Turion Ultra Dual Core 2.4 GH Processor
250 GB Hard Drive 7200 RPM
ATI Radeon 4650 1G Dedicated RAM
4 GB RAM, with an additional 4 GB page file on an inserted memory card (the ones for cameras)
64 bit vista

I need help determining what to do with the operating system. I have a tower that uses linux, a tower that uses xp, and now this… I want the speed of and XP, but I only can get 32 bit XP professional… 32 bit only recognizes up to 3 gigs of ram…4 gigs if you hack the system… What are your guy's ideas?..
rate/hate

vista works fine for me. Congrats on actually buying something all to yourself, pretty good feeling huh? well…cept the empty wallet part.

Yea, it always feels good for a moment… then I get all sad and can't spend money on anything ever…. but then I realize I have a laptop that I can use and that makes me happy. Hmmm… Vista sometimes makes me angry… slow and a little bit buggy… But I do like the smooth black look.

just disable lots of stuff, I can't stand the double-triple checker for everything! "are you really realllllly you want to do this?"

Screw off vista, do some searching and you can disable most all of it. Got mine all set up and it works great. Never had a BSOD, nor really any other problems. Besides the annoying stuff I disabled.

Of course you can try use like TinyVista or something else :) ( Google ) :)


~Home
Btw nice Laptop, and Gz for buying it on your own!

Use it for some extreme triple boot features :p BTW I use Vista Ultimate, it is ALOT better once you disable the UI features and disable vista security features :D ~ Although it does get kinda junky and you might have to restore Vista once a year or so.



~NS

I think I might just let vista sit here until I install windows 7… what do you guys think of that idea?… plus anybody have any other/better thoughts? I would be interested to hear them.

your computer is almost similar to my desktop, just a lil slower.
Get vista 64 bit.

It runs pretty fast, almost to xp.

CS3 starts in about 10 secs for me.
FireFox is about 3 secs.

Download and install Windows 7 ;)

I dunno… it is the beta one and expires in march 2010.. thanks for the great idea… I am still going to download and put it on a diff computer.

Either way it probably doesn't matter on the OS, vista or xp. You will need that 1GB extra memory just to run Vista compared to XP :P.

I personally have no problems with vista and my machines have 2GB of RAM so 4GB should do you just fine.

Yea, but I want more reliability and ease of networking… those both came with xp..hmmm …

From: anonymity
Yea, but I want more reliability and ease of networking… those both came with xp..hmmm …

You'll get that with Windows Vista.

I own a Laptop with Vista, a desktop with XP and just order another desktop that comes with Vista and XP pre-installed on it lol.

I like the looks of Vista a little more than XP, but I really can't stand using it.
When I get my new desktop I plan to mess with it a little more but personally XP > Vista

Awesome specs xD

Try a modified version of xp or vista *cough* torrents *cough*:p They have better features than the normal ones.

I am thinking about going to windows 7.. (thanks for the idea)… I just really need the computing ease and awesome look… I use almost all of the programs in the adobe cs4 master suite.. imaging, videoing, webbing, and flashing…

I tried using longhorn… but I got bored eventually..

nice computer specs

Get god damned Windows 7! And if you want to keep it, pay for a license when it comes out, or get Windows Vista with a Windows 7 upgrade.

Get windows 7 or Vista. There really isn't much speed difference between Xp and vista anymore.

Also with Vista, you should disable User Account Control and harddrive indexing. These are the things that make it annoying/slower.

user account control is sooo annoying… I am probably going to buy windows 7 from a friend.

From: anonymity
user account control is sooo annoying… I am probably going to buy windows 7 from a friend.

or just download it? lol.

It doesnt cost anything now.

I can buy the full blow ultimate edition for much much cheaper than the normal price…

example: … full microsoft office 2007 package (everything)… 400$ American…. I pay 60$ American..
…I havs a friend that works for microsoft and he can get the stuff for a reduced price….

the RC version only lasts for a year… then you need either a key… or a new install..

From: anonymity
I can buy the full blow ultimate edition for much much cheaper than the normal price…

example: … full microsoft office 2007 package (everything)… 400$ American…. I pay 60$ American..
…I havs a friend that works for microsoft and he can get the stuff for a reduced price….

the RC version only lasts for a year… then you need either a key… or a new install..

I'll just keep overwriting the OS till I can get a torrent for the real OS.
I keep all my data on a seperate 550gb partition and all my programs are on the net or burned to dvd.

From: Buckleyindahouse
I'll just keep overwriting the OS till I can get a torrent for the real OS.
I keep all my data on a seperate 550gb partition and all my programs are on the net or burned to dvd.

I'm pretty sure it lasts a year from when it was released, not when you install it.

From: bullzeye95
I'm pretty sure it lasts a year from when it was released, not when you install it.

I knowz.
The one I got installed now goes away on July or August or June in 2010.

Now the only thing you better worry about is that you dont mess it up :p

Anything brakes = no fix, you have no cash, this is why I mooch off my parents xD

NEW THREAD TOPIC:
My Fail New Computer…

Alright now, straight to it. I purchased the HP Pavilion Dv6z series notebook. Virtually right away, I started to remove the unwanted software on it (hp games, symantec(norton), ebay, microsoft trial stuff, the like). I had not removed ANYTHING necessary to run the machine. By time the next day rolled around, I had received an error warning me of an "immanent hard drive failure." I thought that was pretty serious, so I did what I knew to. I ran the system chkdsk, meaning checked the disk on restart. I defragmented the hard drive after the check was complete. After receiving the error a few more times, I checked the whole hard drive again… I was slightly confused and called support who then sent me a new drive.

I installed the new drive and was up and running. Not wanting Vista on it.. I installed 32 bit XP pro.. super software.. man it was nice… the computer ran fine .. no errors.. nothing.. It was super fast I loved it… so far it has been the happiest time I have spent with my computer.. ..I was online and downloading all the drivers for my laptop when I came across a problem… there is no graphics card driver available for me to download… screwed.. ati/hp both were unable to help me get it… after calling hp … they told me just put the original configuration on the laptop… not cool..

I used the recovery dvd's to reinstall windows vista 64 bit edition. Out of curiosity I just let the computer sit for about two days running… waited… waited… and I noticed I was loosing about 4-10 G/Bytes of hard drive space a day… ???? I customer supported again and they told me to send the notebook in… I did…

I went on a trip… I came back today and my computer had come in while I was gone.. I opened the box.. and was w00h00ing that the computer was working.. they said "they replicated the problem" and "fixed it".. I was happy… after about 10 min on the computer.. I noticed … !!! … they replaced my hard drive… with a different one.!! …. 250GB 5400RPM… I am currently quite a bit frustrated… I don't know whether to throw a fit or just let it go…

You caused the problem by going and uninstalling stuff like crazy, All they did was drop 1800rpm's, not a big deal.

Il'd ring them back up and get them to send a new better on.
Just treaten them with returning it for your money back and getting a dell.

I didn't cause the problem.. in either cases…
1- All I uninstalled was hp games, juno trial, netware trial, norton security, net zero trial, microsoft office trial, and ebay trial
2- I let the drive sit it => I did nothing for two days <= I probably didn't ruin anything??
I had the problem before I uninstalled anything.
I was just saying it gets a little frustrating..