Posts by Ransomed1

I've had an Acer TM8104 since they were available for purchase. It came standard with 1GB of RAM, which I thought was plenty. I've recently been thinking of upgrading to a brand new notebook, but am unhappy with the current line of...

Quote: Originally Posted by mwappo I have a bit of a play around last night and managed to reduce the boot time to a 'preety good' level. A lot better than it was. I stopped quite a lot of startup items, however i still...

Quote: Originally Posted by southcali Go to "CONTROL", "MOUSE","DEVICE". Click on "SETTING". selet"Button", Click "ENABLE" and then set your buttons. My...

Always get the longest warranty that you can on any notebook. It's important to have the protection, and worth the money, since these usually cost less than $100. Sorry for your problems. If it's a notebook and it lasted a year with...

Quote: Originally Posted by MrEvil Most of those graphic artists stick with CRT because they don't know how to properly calibrate an LCD for the lighting conditions in their room or office. A friend of mine does...

Quote: Originally Posted by PorschePRH Wow, I haven't even had my 5672 for 1 year and I just had another hard drive failure! The first one went out in 6 months. I bought an identical model from Fry's to get back up...

Quote: Originally Posted by bveld I regularly defrag my notebook so that shouldn't be the problem. I'll give TuneXP a try though, thanks. By the way, I can manually clean my boot files by going to the...

Quote: Originally Posted by bveld I have a similar problem after installing the ATI drivers with CCC on my notebook. It takes around 3-4 min for windows to fully boot up. It's been annoying a lot. I consider myself an...

Quote: Originally Posted by eising Please help me out. What info do you need more to help me out??? Tell me and I'll send you. Wim Durban South Africa What anti-spyware and anti-virus software are you...

Good info Disney, thanks for sharing. I've also noticed a heat and power decrease and fan increase when plugged in, versus battery power. I admit that I still use Acer's Epower management software. I like that it's so easy to set up...