Boswell Posted December 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2007 So? Most laptops have a 'hatch' on the bottom to easily replace the ram (Try the memory advisor on http://www.crucial.com/uk/)Hmmm I have looked and i believe mine has a has one of those hatches. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bondy Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 (edited) Hey, Does anyone here have a good knowledge with microsoft access 2003+2007.Basically for college coursework weve been made to create a database in access and they have the 2003 version...whilst at home i have the 2007 version.Basically ive converted the file into the 2007 file format, yet none of my buttons that ive created in the database work at all and i dont even get an error appear when i click on them either, i even tried creating the buttons again from scratch and they still dont work, and some of these are just buttons that perform open form, close form etc, nothing complicated.Anyone got any ideas as i dont really want to have to re-install office 2003, i have looked on the internet yet cant find anything that solves the problem....seems stupid they would release a new version that is not compatible with previous versions.Thanks!EDIT: ignore post, running both office 2003 and 2007 Edited January 30, 2008 by Bondy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boswell Posted January 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 quickplay buttons has always worked with mebut I used that way to fixe the webcam too, it will only last a few days.It´s better to do this: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=149463I have had to resort to this again! I HATE VISTA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 I have had to resort to this again! I HATE VISTA!Vistas better than XP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeM Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Vistas better than XP I agree, but you have to have alot of ram to cope with the amount that Vista uses. My Mum and Dad have just bought a monster hp laptop/powerhouse thing for work with 4gb ram and 500gb HD, can't remember what processor it runs though. Anyway thats a beast, upgrade the ram on your laptop and it'll be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Vistas better than XP Ubuntu beats them both! Just wondering, what do you think makes Vista better than XP? I never really had a full mess about on Vista. I'm wondering if I should install it on a spare partition an see what it's like, hear so many cons though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feest Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 BSOD help anyone? thanks(blue screen of death) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 BSOD help anyone? thanks(blue screen of death)What error do you get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Ubuntu beats them both! Just wondering, what do you think makes Vista better than XP? I never really had a full mess about on Vista. I'm wondering if I should install it on a spare partition an see what it's like, hear so many cons though.I dunno really, it just runs better. It comes back from errors better than XP (overclocking GFX card was troublesome ), pictures load up faster in folders, it generally feels smoother and everythings set out in a better way (start bar etc) The networking stuff is a breeze, and things that were troublesome before are ridiculously easy now. The internet seems faster too . Programs load far faster, the startup and shutdown times of the machine are much faster.I'm currently dual booting with vista and XP which was originally going to be so i could try out vista to see if i could live with it full time. Within a few days of use i'd switched all my programs over to vista and i use it all the time now (except level editing in crysis). When i go back into XP though.... it seems far slower, very clunky.. its just generally more annoying. Pictures take an age to load up, and its not like its a hardware issue as i've got a high spec machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam F Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Ok, this is more of a laptop question, but i need to reinstall vista onto my laptop, but i don't have a disc. My mate has a disc if i installed it on my laptop would it ruin his version of vista and would mine work aswell? Thanks Sam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 I quite like Vista myself, never had any problems with it.Scopse - I've got discs of Ubuntu 7.10, both 32 and 64 bit.Have been very tempted to run Ubuntu (had it dual booting on old laptop briefly) but each time I've done it, I seem to get little niggles which would no doubt be fine for a computery guy, but I'm not one of them! First time the wireless card apparently wouldn't enable. Online said to do something with ndiswrapper or something along those lines, but it couldn't be found.Second time, no sound.Are these sorts of things generally easy to sort? Even for a n00b like me?!I really liked the look and feel of Ubuntu, but feel I might have a lot of issues trying to do stuff like that, and also with compatibility for programs like Reason, Matlab, games etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 I quite like Vista myself, never had any problems with it.Scopse - I've got discs of Ubuntu 7.10, both 32 and 64 bit.Have been very tempted to run Ubuntu (had it dual booting on old laptop briefly) but each time I've done it, I seem to get little niggles which would no doubt be fine for a computery guy, but I'm not one of them! First time the wireless card apparently wouldn't enable. Online said to do something with ndiswrapper or something along those lines, but it couldn't be found.Second time, no sound.Are these sorts of things generally easy to sort? Even for a n00b like me?!I really liked the look and feel of Ubuntu, but feel I might have a lot of issues trying to do stuff like that, and also with compatibility for programs like Reason, Matlab, games etc Yeah, I've only been using Ubuntu for a little while now, an funnily enough I was worried I was going to have issues with getting on the internet. Looking on the Ubuntu forums I found a wireless card that was just a simple plug an play, there are plenty of tutorials on how use ndiswrapper to get your wireless card working if your unsure though (aslong as you know your root password then there wont be a problem) the Linux forums are really the best help you can get though, read the HOW-TOs for any problems they are a great help. As for your 'no sound' that can either be a missing driver or just not set up in the sound options, again pretty easy to do an I'm sure there are plenty of topics on it in the forums. The community is so vast for Linux, every question or trouble has already been asked and answered so its just a case of Googling an taking the plunge using the Terminal.I just read this Article by The Inquirer an I'm not gona bother with Vista, there's too big a list of cons. And for the apparent benefit that it doesn't feel so clunky an seems quicker doesn't make me want to jump on the bandwagon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 I quite like Vista myself, never had any problems with it.Scopse - I've got discs of Ubuntu 7.10, both 32 and 64 bit.Have been very tempted to run Ubuntu (had it dual booting on old laptop briefly) but each time I've done it, I seem to get little niggles which would no doubt be fine for a computery guy, but I'm not one of them! First time the wireless card apparently wouldn't enable. Online said to do something with ndiswrapper or something along those lines, but it couldn't be found.Second time, no sound.Are these sorts of things generally easy to sort? Even for a n00b like me?!I really liked the look and feel of Ubuntu, but feel I might have a lot of issues trying to do stuff like that, and also with compatibility for programs like Reason, Matlab, games etc running ubuntu on a desktop where you know exactly which cards/devices etc you have plugged in should be relatively easy to sort out, the OS update stuff is nice ne easy and they do a fine job of pretending you're not on linux(ie by making the updates easy).#However, as you discovered - running it on a laptop where you have no hope at all of finding out anything about the various components is a very differnet kettle of fishies. I got hacked off with it last time i made the effort as I was having to rebuild the kernel every time i plugged something in and even then my wacom and four out of four wireless adaptors never actually worked properly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boswell Posted March 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 I've been trying to find this thread for an age and cant remeber the title of it for the life of me so the search is useless. Am currently going page by page to try and find it. Any help much appriacated. Willis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew_Gibson Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Bit of a bump. I'm on my laptop. Running two programes. iTunes and FireFox. and its being VERY slow. Takes ages to load up. Sometime it just turns itelf off randomly. Well not off. but black screen comes on, and you cannot do anything. DO i need all of them running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 86 is a little high, but it wont do any real harm. Google them find out if theya re really important, you can normally find a few you dont need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Bit of a bump. I'm on my laptop. Running two programes. iTunes and FireFox. and its being VERY slow. Takes ages to load up. Sometime it just turns itelf off randomly. Well not off. but black screen comes on, and you cannot do anything. DO i need all of them running?86 is ridiculous in my opinion, but not as bad on Vista as it would be on XP. Definately google all the process names and kill the ones you dont need. I aim for like 20 on my XP machine, but you should probably aim for about 35-40 i would imagine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boswell Posted March 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 86 is ridiculous in my opinion, but not as bad on Vista as it would be on XP. Definately google all the process names and kill the ones you dont need. I aim for like 20 on my XP machine, but you should probably aim for about 35-40 i would imagine...It would be slower using vista I think because vista takes more processing power to run in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex-Mitchinson Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Im running XP on my laptop and it seems to be gradually getting slower and slower. Really starting to get annoying.I have only used like half of the available memory as well.I also know next to nothing about this sorta stuff, which doesn't help.Any simple advice on how to get it going a bit quicker would be much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew_Gibson Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 I have 48 On my mian PC. and its running fine. There are some unwanted things on my PC like. Safari. For some reason that just downloaded. Loads of unused software will be deleted to nite. Same with my laptop. Goint go uninstal the rocket dock. Dont use it. Also while im here. I love the things on Vista with the clock on the screen, anyway of doin that on XP? Also I have LOADS of pics on my PC. they ALWAYS open with quicktime. But I want them to open with The slide shouw thinggy. anyone help here?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Vista has lots more processes than XP though. I have 51 processes and my PC (with XP) is fine. With Vista you can have 70 or so with no problems. 84 is a bit excessive but not that unusual.Goint go uninstal the rocket dock. Dont use it. Also while im here. I love the things on Vista with the clock on the screen, anyway of doin that on XP?http://widgets.yahoo.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 My Vista 64bit currently has 53 and thats with uTorrent. Msn, Thunderbird, Firefox, VLC open. So 84 is a tad high.InCDiTunesHelperjuschedSetPointdistnoted.exeare 5 you can get rid of straight off. Run msconfig and remove some startup items. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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