Posts by kos

Try pressing F9 when you turn-on your laptop/netbook (just as the ASUS splash screen comes out) and that should kick-off the recovery installation. If it doesn't work, you can try to boot from the recovery CD (assuming there are recovery...

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Quote: Originally Posted by Steve@NBF I'm very curious at how this holds up with Peacekeeper. Wow, very nice benchmarking tool! IE7 and IE8 are not even 1/4th the performance of Safari! Same with Firefox!

If anybody (using Vista) has updated to IE8, better check your CPU utilization. Over at Microsoft Answers forum, a lot of users have reported CPU utilization hitting 50% consistently and eventually this was linked to the Windows...

I guess it's different for everyone. While problems are not consistent, problems can occur. I subscribed into Windows Answers website and there was also a whole lot of issues raised on affected programs with the SP2 upgrade. This was...

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn What are the apps that you have to reinstall so far? I experience none. cheers ... Hi, Had to reinstall Yahoo Messenger, Alcohol 52% and one other app that I forgot. I...

While SP2 may have freed up space for some... the experience with others was they had to re-install a few programs. Happened to me to hopefully everyone else won't be surprised if some programs encounter problems after the upgrade.

Quote: Originally Posted by yaeko Hi I have 2 windows XP Home (legal) without using. I want to install one of them in my laptop (acer aspire). But the optical unit does not work. Is it possible to install Windows...

Here's one around your price range... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834115556 I'd agree with Djembe, go for a small notebook instead of a netbook. Eventually you might start looking for the processing power....

Thanks guys! That makes me feel better...