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    A bit of info needed?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by blade1, Jun 24, 2007.

  1. blade1

    blade1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have Acer 9302AWSMi....all in all not to bad a laptop, thing is it has Vista home premium built in but i have Vista Ultimate on my pc and i have still one install before the activation key no longer works.
    Is it worth me making a full back up of the laptop at present state (in case of **** up) then installing Ultimate, or is it not worth the extra benefits? :confused:

    I don't need to do this, just wanted some feed back from the forum, wondering if it would speed things up, even though i haven't had this laptop long, it dose seem to be slow on the start up and shutdown....i have only got avast, startup monitor and defender starting up, and have stopped a lot of the acer stuff which i was not using.

    Many thanks for any thoughts.
     
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    Evolution Vox Sola

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    Did you create the recovery DVDs that eRecovery would have prompted you to make when you first turned on the notebook. If you did that you would have created a windows backup image that you can use to restore windows at anytime. You could also use the recovery partition should you need that as well.

    Personally I don't like vista the way it is right now (numerous driver and software issues :rolleyes: ) but it is strange that you want to keep vista and not go back to XP like so many other users on the forum are asking about. Vista ultimate AFAIK is no quicker than home premium the OS can only run as fast as the hardware allows it to and to me XP feels quicker (but that is just me). So my vote would be to leave home premium, but this is up to you as it is your notebook.
     
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    blade1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you very much for the quick reply Evolution, i totally agree with you about xp pro being a lot quicker,i have two pc's duel booting with vista ultimate and xp pro, i must admit i personally haven't had any driver problems with vista that vista has not sorted, but SP1 will not go a miss...thing is theres been a lot of talk about back up for xp stopping in the near future, and also i would like both my young daughters to get used to vista as that seems to be coming out on most laptops and pc's at the moment.

    Back up i have done a eRecovery from new...and also use ghost 12, which works well on vista.
     
    blade1, Jun 24, 2007
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