Topic: Win7 laptop

[Talvace]

I just ordered win7 upgrade kit from toshiba (my laptop manufacturer). Currently running windows vista home premium. I hope to see a bit of a performance jump. Anyone running a win7 based laptop?

2ghz dual core intel 64 bit processor
3 gig ram

[bigguy]

My laptop is running Win7 but my specs aren't near that high.

[BluenoseJake]

The Girl is running it on her laptop, and she really likes it.  The only complaint she has is network speed is slow, but I've isolated that to our craptastic wireless router. She's running it on a Dell 521, Dual 1.8Ghz with 2G ram. 

[bigguy]

Have you checked the options for the network card to see if you can tweak there at all. Maybe instead of "auto-negotiate" you can change it to 100 mbps full duplex.

[Talvace]

What flavor of craptastic router is it (hopefully not tha same as mine)

[BluenoseJake]

Wireless doesn't have duplex, two way communication is only an issue for ethernet, wireless is inherently two way.  No, my problem is my router, a dlink wbr-1310 is older and kinda sucks.  when it is connected up to the wired network, the thing flies.

[bigguy]

Wireless cards don't have duplex.....at all. Could have sworn my card did but now I don't have it to check.

[Talvace]

Got win7 installed...actually i did the upgrade. Dont like the upgrade cause some programs dont work with the new os and cant even be uninstalled now. Should have gone with the clean install. anyone know a good registry cleaner for win7?

[bigguy]

http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

Works good for me.

[Talvace]

none of the registry keys for the app im trying to remove exist yet it still will not let me delete the program files...cant manually uninstall, the uninstaller wont work and the program files can not be removed. 

[bigguy]

Sounds like you need a program that unlocks files and folders so you can delete them.

[Talvace]

might have some luck with a third party uninstaller...but...i doubt it 

[Everis]

I have a laptop for school, its a Toshiba Satellite 500 series.
Specs are umm (had to turn the thing on.)
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T6600 @2.20 GHz
ram is 4 GB of ddr3
64 bit OS
and a NIVIDIA GeForce G210M vid card

I have had it since Oct and I am still getting used to it, first laptop and I still use my desktop more often. I spent awhile looking at different ones and wanted a separate video card, for movies, and I wanted it faster then my desktop. I plan on going to the UK for school come September and a laptop will be much easier and more useful on a plane then a desktop, but I will miss my desktop. Roomie has tried playing WOW on it, and says its pretty good for it, and that was running off of wireless internet.

There is still a bunch of toshiba stuff on it, facial recognition for one thing. And who knows what else, I can't remember, like I said, I will miss my desktop and still getting used to win7

[gordo]

Had my Toshiba Satellite pro L450D for about a month now running Win7, after years and years of using XP I found the change over not as bad as I thought, once you get use to quirky little things like no Outlook Express  and where the recycle bin is, it really isn't quite so bad.   I like the ease of changing theme, and the ease of finding files etc; although in general I find it a little slower than XP, but that may be the laptop.  However I do find myself reverting to my tower for doing most of my stuff.

I have had a post on the toshiba web site simply asking a question, not wanting to go through the whole tech support bit with who I purchased it from.   The sound on it is terrble at times, especially when trying to stream mp3s from my tower via a wireless network; it is choppy, distored and even slows down to the old 33 when playing a 45 (that gives my age away)  4 days and no answer.   Look like the tech Support is facing. 

[bigguy]

Godo, I see you found the other thread and had success with changing the setting.

[Talvace]

All in all I like the Toshiba Satellite. I find the wireless speed pretty good compared to the girlfriend's compaq. I, like most of you (judging from this thread) still prefer my desktop and always will. The sound is not great but hey it's a laptop. As far as the facial recognition..I have not been brave enough to try it out yet. Don't wanna be locked out cause i forgot to shave or some nonsense like that.

lol

If anyone has used this feature on the Toshiba Satellite, please let us know how it goes for you.

[gordo]

God I daren't do that, I am sure to buggar the camera up. 

I'' share a strange little story about web cams and my lap-top when I can work out where to post it

[CASMAN]

My Rig has 4 Gigs of Ram with a
Intel (R) Core (TM)2 DUO CPU    P7550 @ 2.26Ghz   2.27 Ghz
It is an HP DV6T Notebook Model with 500 of the other gigs
A Small 15.6 Inch HD Screen with an Integrated TV that I can use when Not Online  ( it has an antenna and remote )
It also has Lojack for Laptops
Lightscribe is also in the CD/DVD Drive
The Miniature Wireless N Card with Bluetooth is Great !
I can walk around with my Computer Online VIA Bluetooth or Wireless from My Blackberry Phone
Premiun Sound with HDMI Connection !
Pretty Much Average Nowadays
CM