The General Discussion Thread

Started by AbnormalButSane22,321 pages

I have a meeting to go to at 7 pm.

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
yep, thats very true

What computer do you have?

And then there were two.

Originally posted by Agent White
What computer do you have?

i have two.. one is a acer laptop with vista and the other is a dell pc

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Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
i have two.. one is a acer laptop with vista and the other is a dell pc

Did the laptop come with Vista pre-installed, or did you upgrade?

Originally posted by Agent White
Did the laptop come with Vista pre-installed, or did you upgrade?

it had vista already on it

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
it had vista already on it

Then you shouldn't have problems caused by Vista's hogging of RAM and video RAM...

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Originally posted by Agent White
Then you shouldn't have problems caused by Vista's hogging of RAM and video RAM...

thats one of the problems, it hides space

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
thats one of the problems, it hides space

How much RAM's on it, and what video card?

Originally posted by Agent White
How much RAM's on it, and what video card?

video card i'm not sure, but normally the space fluctuates from 14 gigs to 8 and back again and sometimes de fragging works after two or three times

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
video card i'm not sure, but normally the space fluctuates from 14 gigs to 8 and back again and sometimes de fragging works after two or three times

Video card's kinda hard to check. I think you're looking at hard drive space, I mean RAM, like random access memory. Go to the control panel, click system, and it should say on the same screen that has your processor and system name.

Originally posted by Agent White
Video card's kinda hard to check. I think you're looking at hard drive space, I mean RAM, like random access memory. Go to the control panel, click system, and it should say on the same screen that has your processor and system name.

1.00 gb

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
1.00 gb

Aha, well that could be the problem. One gigabyte really isn't enough to have a functional Vista computer, in my opinion. It would make it perform fairly sluggishly. Although, on the other hand, Microsoft says that a computer with only 512 mb of RAM is Vista ready, I think that you need more than one gig, at least in my experience. But then again, I also do a lot of gaming.

So, bottom line, more RAM=better Vista.

need at least 2

Originally posted by AbnormalButSane
need at least 2

2 gb should be bare minimum, my laptop has 4 gb, and my new desktop (coming with Windows 7 Ultimate, to note) will have 12 gb.

Originally posted by Agent White
Aha, well that could be the problem. One gigabyte really isn't enough to have a functional Vista computer, in my opinion. It would make it perform fairly sluggishly. Although, on the other hand, Microsoft says that a computer with only 512 mb of RAM is Vista ready, I think that you need more than one gig, at least in my experience. But then again, I also do a lot of gaming.

So, bottom line, more RAM=better Vista.

so how do i gt more RAM?

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
so how do i gt more RAM?

For a desktop computer, you could purchase more at a computer store. However, I don't know for a laptop. You could always check online to see if your laptop model can be upgraded with more RAM, but I suggest living with what you've got, unless you're comfortable with opening up your computer and literally inserting a new RAM chip.

Do note, I accept ABSOLUTELY NO LIABILITY/RESPONSIBILITY in the event of any and/or all damage caused to your computer as a result of my suggestions.

Originally posted by Agent White
2 gb should be bare minimum, my laptop has 4 gb, and my new desktop (coming with Windows 7 Ultimate, to note) will have 12 gb.

This is what I always heard.