Re: upgrade XP Home to XP Prof

You search and search and search until you give up, basically. Or you ask
and ask all over the Usenet and those posts get repeated by all the NG
repeater websites out there (99% of whom are whores) and those sites end up
being the hits you get when you search for it again. I dunno, I haven't
figured out any general solution to the problem of not finding drivers.

What makes you think you need an updated driver for the video, anyway? None
of the symptoms you've listed fall under the heading of video problems.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Peter" <abc@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In fact, I have just realized that AMD/ATI do not support drivers for
laptops are apparently modifies by the laptop constructors. Then, Toshiba
don't mention drivers for this model in their page anymore. So, what do I
do next?

Sorry about going on and on...


JB




"Gary S. Terhune" <none> escreveu na mensagem
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You need better info on that display adapter. Where are you getting that
info from? You might want to try Everest 2.02
http://www.majorgeeks.com/mst_Defrag_Home_Edition_d4571.html

See if it doesn't give you some numbers to go along with MOBILITYT
RADEONT. There are a few different ones.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Peter" <abc@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I followed Techsupportforum 5-step suggestions to the letter: which
included Panda Then, Mcafee, Kaspersky, Trend, Spybot, Ad.aware, all in
safe mode.

I have pruned, through Msconfig Startup and services tab, down to the
minimum which includes most MS services and McAfee. On startup I have
wkfud, Rundll32 cwaprops, TPtray, Mcagent, CePMTray, CeEKey, Apoint,
Ctfmon, Wkdetect

It has been slow for some time, It does not hang (not often anyway)

I suspect low RAM, McAfee and especially Adobe Reader holding onto
memory, and the need for an updated Video driver which I cant find
anywhere:

manufacturer : ATI
type : MOBILITYT RADEONT
memory : 16 MB
memory type : DDR Video RAM
graphics accelerator : 64 bit
connected bus : AGP bus


Thank you very much

JB



"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu na mensagem
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:44 +0100, "Peter" <abc@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks. Yes, I am aware that there is little difference. It is just
that I
happen to have them both anyway, if it helped.

I have answered most of the questions you make in earlier messages.
http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=UK&z=129&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&PRODUCT_ID=44042#0



You answered some. If you don't want to answer them all, I can't help.



I could send a Hijackthis report if you could have a look at it.


Sorry, no. I don't publish my E-mail address here. Besides, I'm not a
Hijackthis expert.




"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu na
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:06:41 +0100, "Peter" <abc@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a very slow laptop. I am sure that it is very clean.


Exactly what makes you so sure? The most common cause of slowdowns
these days is malware infection, even on those computers whose
owners
think they are clean. What anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do
you run, and are they up to date?

Besides the malware issue, issue the following questions:

The second most common cause of performance problems is
performance-robbing programs running in the background. What
programs
do you have starting automatically?

What is your hardware configuration? What processor and how much RAM
do you have?

What applications do you run? Has it always been slow, or is this
something new?

Is it slow doing everything, or just some things? What things?

What changes did you make prior to the slowdown? What new software
has
been installed?


However, I
suspect that over the years the Registry may have suffered a 'bump'
or
two.


Registries don't get "bumps." The thought that the registry gets
filled with clutter, resulting in a slowdown, and needs to be
cleaned
periodically, is false, although many people unfortunately believe
it.


If the reason for the slowness was there,


It almost certainly is not.


would an upgrade from XP Home to
XP Professional make sure that any problems withe registry and
other
parts
of the system would be totally solved?


No. Emphatically no. An upgrade from Home to Professional is the
easiest and most likely successful of all possible upgrades, since
so
little has to be changed. But the one time when any upgrade is least
likely to be successful is when you are experiencing problems. An
upgrade to a problem-ridden computer is most like to exacerbate
problems, not solve them.

You should upgrade to Professional *only* after your problems are
solved, and *only* if you are sure that there's some benefit to you
in
doing so. Are you aware that XP Home and Professional are identical
except that Professional includes a few features (mostly related to
security and networking) missing from Home? Most home users don't
need
and would never use these extra features and will see no benefits by
upgrading.

For details go to

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp>

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

Also note another point, not included in any of the above:
Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home
only
five.


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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