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Offline Talvace

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Win7 laptop
« on: December 09, 2009, 10:43:48 PM »
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
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Re: Win7 laptop
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2009, 11:03:38 PM »
My laptop is running Win7 but my specs aren't near that high.
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Re: Win7 laptop
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2009, 11:52:31 AM »
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. 
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Re: Win7 laptop
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2009, 12:22:34 PM »
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.
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Re: Win7 laptop
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2009, 04:56:08 PM »
What flavor of craptastic router is it (hopefully not tha same as mine)
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Re: Win7 laptop
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2009, 06:33:39 PM »
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.
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Re: Win7 laptop
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2009, 06:42:18 PM »
Wireless cards don't have duplex.....at all. ??? Could have sworn my card did but now I don't have it to check.
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Re: Win7 laptop
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2010, 01:06:05 PM »
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?
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Re: Win7 laptop
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2010, 01:36:18 PM »
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Re: Win7 laptop
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2010, 08:42:34 PM »
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.  >:(
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Re: Win7 laptop
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2010, 11:22:10 AM »
Sounds like you need a program that unlocks files and folders so you can delete them. ???
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Re: Win7 laptop
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2010, 02:30:56 PM »
might have some luck with a third party uninstaller...but...i doubt it  :D
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Re: Win7 laptop
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2010, 05:34:00 PM »
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
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