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2nd February 2007, 23:57
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| Member  Join Date: Mar 2004
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 |  Got myself Vista Instead of getting a copy of the OS; I found a good deal at BB on Gateway notebook comes with Vista Home Premium; Intel Duo 1.6; 100GB HD, 1GB ram, DVD RW DL etc for $600 and free printer scanner.
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3rd February 2007, 09:48
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| No way, that is extremely cheap  . |
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3rd February 2007, 11:28
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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3rd February 2007, 17:04
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| Other than a pretty face; Vista sucks ..... slow start-up, shut down; the only software I could install without problems are Office XP Pro, Skype , DVDFab Platinum; HP 4215 and Okidata C5150n drivers; AVG 7.5V.Unless you are getting an entire new system; stay away for now. Does anyone know how to make the desktop Icon smaller?
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3rd February 2007, 17:38
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3rd February 2007, 18:35
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| Corrected the icon size; right click on desktop - choose classic. System start takes more than twice the time; shutting down is even longer. How did I measure them you ask? You know when you are pissing twice longer than normal
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3rd February 2007, 18:45
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| heh, I don't need someone to tell me Vista sucks because it is sooo obvious still a good deal on the notebook tough |
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3rd February 2007, 19:51
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| >3 minutes - restart time  2GB memory would be just about right for me; not being a daily gamer. With what I do, about 380 mb memory left for game and 1GB total physical memory installed.
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3rd February 2007, 21:16
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| PartitionMagic 8.0 does not work in Vista; Google around and found 8.2 does not support Vista neither. DVD7 is a NO go; but, Window Media takes care of not having it. Norton Antivirus 9.xx won't work 10.x does, I am sticking with AVG for now. PowerQuest image does not work; I have another software that does. Image the OS drive and keep the Recovery partition under locked key ..... this thing (Vista) could be dangerous. Now I have tasted the latest wrath of Bill G., talk about Weapon of Mass Destruction
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