Recent content by peter_ming

Dear all, I guess the title says it all. I have a new Vaio EB15FB with Core-i3 330M running W7 Home Premium 64-bit. I just realized that instead of 2 cores/4 thread, it only has 2 cores/2 thread. My office uses Dell 14R Core-i3 330 M and it has 2 cores/4 thread. Is this 2/4 or 2/2 BIOS related...

hi all, my PC is acting strange lately, I notice that whenever it's running something (typing, synchronizing email, and even when i open multiple tabs on firefox and they are all opening pages) the screen goes blip blap for a second or two, the image got blurry and the pc freezes, before it...

i did just that, my laptop is running vista 64bit, sound chip is realtek hd, so two choices appear: digital out from ATI HDMI and speaker, I tried to select speaker as the default but still no effect, sound is still coming from HDMI. i tried to search on ATI catalyst driver hoping that somehow...

@ peter.cort: i did just that, but the sound coming out from analog audio jack is cut once the HDMI is plugged in @ hefemeister: that's what I'm trying to do, but looking at sound properties there is no option to relocate the default output from HDMI to analog, the sound properties is the...

hi guys, while HDMI provides superb video and audio output, is there any way that I can use both analog audio jack and HDMI simultaneously? My Vaio laptop has Radeon 4570 with HDMI out, which I plug to my LCD TV. The video is certainly glorious, but unfortunately once HDMI is plugged, the...

hi guys, my new laptop comes with ATI Radeon HD4570, I use media player classic as the default video player. I'd like to know if there is any tweaks and set up to do to maximize the HD4570 (i.e. lower CPU usage), or if there are other video players which will work better with the GPU? I'm also...

thanks mak, will duly try later on.

Hi all, moving My Documents folder from C: to another partition in XP is relatively easy, but Vista gives me headache since each folder in Library is independent one from the other and must be moved one by one. I successfully moved Documents and Downloads without seeing duplicate in Library...

thanks mak! will do as your advice as soon as possible.

@ mak: I reinstalled Vista (the tweaks I did on first installation was a mess :embaressed:), and now the bootloader is acting crazy right before it shows the dual boot option. It actually doesn't affect the booting process, but it annoys me by showing lines of texts, something like 'bootmngr is...

@ vernong: this was my first thought also, but there is no McAfee installer CD that comes with the Mini 10, there's only Dell Recovery console which will bring it back to the factory original set. Well, if any of the the above won't work I might just as well do the full recovery. Which brings...

thanks for all your help guys! I'll try just that and get back to you with the result

hi guys, I played with my new Dell Mini 10 running on XP SP3 and now I can't uninstall the mcafee anti virus that comes pre-installed with it. This is how I played with it: 1. I partitioned the HD into several small bits. 2. I move the default program folder to special partition made for...

ah, now everything is clear as sky, thanks a lot mak! yes, of course Win7 and Vista are two different OS, but my guess is that they use the same boot loader so treatment to them should not be any different. Still got a lot to tweak and twist with my XP, hope it's gonna be a fun road to travel...

thanks mak! i did rebuilt by TweakUI, restored through desktop properties, but icons still missing. as for wallpaper, i'll see to it later since i'm already off to work. I know that perhaps a simple repair install will do it, but i'm now on detective mode, a bit manual tweaks and repair won't...