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Vista 64 Business : It's slower than XP

For the 1st few days of installing Vista it usually indexes everything, which is why the HD is thrashing, after a few days of normal use it gets used to yourprograms and such that you run and skims down the memory usage somewhat and accesses the HD a lot less. You memory usage is higher...
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- Post #14
- Jan 19, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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No activation XP Home??

Sorry for the trouble with BestBuy pcgeek. From the point of view at our location we do have hiccups now and then, but to be honest more often then not if a customer buys an extended warrenty on a computer they will get thier money's worth. Today I installed a new harddrive into a laptop...
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- Post #43
- Jan 19, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Problems with Windows XP reinstallation

The only computer manufactur that supplies CD's now is Toshiba and Dell. The rest prompt you to make them as soon as Windows boots up and is a 3 hour process. As to the OP, did you click on the button that says Activate by Telephone and then pick the country you are calling from? I have ran...
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- Post #10
- Jan 18, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Tricky XP install....

As long as you are hitting F8 or whatever it is on bootup for that particular unit you should be able to show which drive to boot from, which includes USB CD drives. Unless the systems is fairly old you should still be able to do so. You could also try copying the XP disc onto a USB key...
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- Post #2
- Jan 18, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Gigabyte P965 DS3

I seem so be having issues, and would like help narrowing it down. My setup, C2D E6600 Gigagbyte P965 DS3 XFX 7950GT Passive Cooler OCZ OCZ 2GB PC2-6400 EL Platinum XTC Edition Rev. 2 Enermax Noisetaker 600w (18a on the PCI-E rail) Seagate 320GB Sata II HD Now what the problem is...
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- Thread
- Jan 18, 2007
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Motherboards
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antivirus for vista

I like the fact you asked for a public link, he gave you not only a link, but one with public in it, and you turned it down. :)
- Dooyas
- Post #14
- Jan 17, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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How often does YOUR Vista crash?

I went through a multitude of crashing at one point or another, but that is mainly a driver issue. I swap different brands of videocards in and out, along with sound cards testing different things and so I wipe it about once a month. :)
- Dooyas
- Post #9
- Jan 16, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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antivirus for vista

Symantec is supposed to release thier patch on the 17th for Vista, around the same time for McAfee. As far as I know though, that is only for the 32bit. I am not sure if 64 bit has a working beta at the moment. You can also click on your security centre in Vista and under Malware...
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- Post #8
- Jan 16, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Vista video drivers = welcome to the suck

3 systems I have had running on Vista with no real problems over the last few months. P4 3.06 Abit AI7 mobo Nvidia 6800GS 2gb ram Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic AMD Atlon 3500+ MSI sumthing sumthing board :) Nvidia 6800GT - ATI X850XT 2gb Ram Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic C2D E6600...
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- Post #40
- Jan 15, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Do Intel Retail Edge people get to download the final vista, or will they be mailed it?

As far as we have been informed the final version will be mailed to us. It would be nice if they could email us a key and let us download it, but I will not hold my breath. It is a retail copy so it will be in the box.
- Dooyas
- Post #2
- Jan 15, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Considering giving Vista a try

Yes. I have played BF2142, BF2, Everquest 2, WoW, DDO, Civ4, Age of Empires3 all on Vista 64bit. So far teh only problem has been with Civ4 saying that it wont work. But it does.
- Dooyas
- Post #6
- Jan 13, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Considering giving Vista a try

They have them posted on the driver download site, both 64bit and 32bit. They both work fine, except that EAX does not work, but that is due largely in part because sound is now going to be done differently in Vista. It is hard to say if the EAX will ever work again.
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- Post #2
- Jan 13, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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No activation XP Home??

No where did I say you needed to mess with the Bios. The HP procedure is a simple fix that happens in windows that takes about 4-5 mins. Heck it may even work in the Gateway laptop. Procedures are to test the system before calling the customer, usually we will update the system and do a...
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- Post #35
- Jan 8, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Getting a new copy of Windows XP MCE '05 OEM media cheap?

Acer should provide you with the discs no problem, but they may be at a cost. Typically the OEMs charge about $40 for the recovery discs. If it is a newer system you could check around at sometech places that sold that laptop, they may have a copy you could purchase off them as well. Other...
- Dooyas
- Post #2
- Jan 8, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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XP Taking FOREVER (20 mins) To Boot Up

We get about 5-10 systems in a week where this is the problem. Basically the PIO mode makes accessing the hard drive super slow and doing the uninstall and reinstall clears it up. Today was the 1st day we have actually seen a repeat case of it on the same computer. To be honest, I do not...
- Dooyas
- Post #13
- Jan 7, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems

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