Samsung Laptop problem

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Maqbool

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Hello! Just want to take a few mins of your precious time & hopw that you will be helpful to me. I bought a Laptop for my father From London England. It is Samsung made & model Number is R20 With
Intel Celeron (M)
430 @ 1.73 GHz
Memoroy 512 Ram
80 GB
32-Bit operating .
& Windows Vista Home Basic was installed at its purchase.

Now The problems he (my Father) is facing
1 :System is very slow it take at least 15 mins for it to be ready for oprating while he is business man & have to do too much in very limited time on laptop he says he is fed up .What can I do ?

2 :If I remove that Vista & install Xp service Pack 2 on it will it work Fine then?

3: Why is computer rating itself 2.0? What should be the rating of good laptop?

4: If I uninstall Vista & do Xp on it& after some time I want Vista back would I be able to do it? Yes I was give the cd of vista on which it is written SYSTEM RECOVERY MEDIA WINDOWS VISTA HOME BASIC FOR DISTRIBUTION WITH NEW SAMSUNG PC.DO u think if I want all things back I can do that with cd given?

5 :the Ram is shown of the box that it is 512 but on the properties it show that 448 is there?

6 :I have has drive & I want to dived the partion into 4 as they only two what software should I use? If I remove the windows Vista would I loss my data on the other drive?

7: Now I have other DVD in my hand also Samsung Pc Rom, .If I install xp woulf my computer will be able find Sound, Modrem & Video driver it self?, Or the cd says driver of sound etc it have no specification for which windows it is for but it says Only for Samsung PC.Do u think that would that install drivers if computer couldt find them.

8 :Why windows vista don’t accept programs designed for xp as xp do which were for Windows 98 I heard that you can make xp programs too run on vista. HOW?

9 :The last thing I what to know Why battery life so less? I only last 1.5 hrs? Yes when I bought the laptop my dad didt give it 24 hrs charge but only 4 hrs would this be the reason for that the battery is less efficient? Yes my friend have the same made (Samsung) While his battery timing are superb as you Evan work ion it for at least 5 hr s even watch a whole movie.

Can u Pls help I would be thankful.
Maqbool



Sorry for any spelling mistakes.
 
1:You need more ram. Running Vista with only 512 mb ram is a nightmare - at least 1gb is needed to make it somewhat bearable. Upgrading ram shouldn't be too tricky.

2:Installing XP should be fine, though you might have to look around for some drivers for some devices. And even if you switch to XP, another 512mb of ram would do good.

4:I don't think that a recovery CD would work, but you could just borrow someone else's disk or download the image off the internet, since it's actually the product key you pay for, not the disk. Heaps of people have done this with XP and it's not considered illegal (AFAIK anyways), it should work with Vista, too.

5:The graphics card is probably using up some of your ram - most laptop GPUs share system memory.

6:The only program that I can remember right now is GParted, it's free and you can add, remove/edit partitions without losing your data. Removing Vista is only going to wipe files off the partition it's installed in ( C: ).

7:Not quite sure what you mean... if the disk's got XP drivers on it, you'll be fine. If not, you can probably get them off the internet, but you'd better make sure there are XP drivers for your stuff. The generic drivers that come with XP should work for most devices, though.

8:Vista has a whole bunch of known compatibility issues with older programs, SP1 should fix most of them I've heard. Not sure, though (Fix: download SP1, should be downloaded automatically with automatic updates turned on)

9:Battery life largely depends on things like what kinda of power saving settings/features you have, what the laptop is used for/what kinda programs you run and so on, resource hogs use more CPU = higher power consumption.

Hope I didn't get anything wrong.
 
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Maqbool said:
7: Now I have other DVD in my hand also Samsung Pc Rom, .If I install xp woulf my computer will be able find Sound, Modrem & Video driver it self?, Or the cd says driver of sound etc it have no specification for which windows it is for but it says Only for Samsung PC.Do u think that would that install drivers if computer couldt find them.


9 :The last thing I what to know Why battery life so less? I only last 1.5 hrs? Yes when I bought the laptop my dad didt give it 24 hrs charge but only 4 hrs would this be the reason for that the battery is less efficient? Yes my friend have the same made (Samsung) While his battery timing are superb as you Evan work ion it for at least 5 hr s even watch a whole movie.

Can u Pls help I would be thankful.
Maqbool



Sorry for any spelling mistakes.
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7. i'd recommend going to the samsung website and look for drivers for your particular model. they should have it all lined up with updates if any.

9. lowering brightness is a great way to get more battery life. also, if the lappy has power saving programs then use it. for instance my vaio can turn off the cd drive, use less cpu, turn off sound, and decrease brightness in one push

lastly, there's no escaping the fact that laptop batteries die fast. especially if you use it ofen.
 
Thx

Thanks a lot i got many thing solution but there are some point i m still in problem .do u mean that if i unintall winvista & install xp then i want to go back on vista i cant with the same DVD?while i have the cd key with me for that windowns (vista)olz kindly help me in this so that i would do it.thx again.Bye
 
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