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    Aspire 1560: Empowering tools & Vista

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by vetti, Oct 20, 2006.

  1. vetti

    vetti Newbie

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    My backup DVD contain Acer tools, but it installs with XP only, I see on DVD -IMAGES- only and now I´ve got Vista Ultimate RC - where i can get this tools installer??
     
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    anchemis Notebook Consultant

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    why would you want Acer Tools? any additional tools usually hog up system resources and slow your computer down. Vista is stable enough to go without them...
     
    anchemis, Oct 20, 2006
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    nix Notebook Consultant

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    Note that Vista will actually eat up battery life much faster than XP (unless you go for Basic).
     
    nix, Oct 20, 2006
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    k3l0 Notebook Consultant

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    nix, have you, say, verified that with the final version of Vista?
     
    k3l0, Oct 20, 2006
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    aces Newbie

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    Hmm. i run a dual os boot and so far i dun really see any differences in batt usage on xp and vista .
    running xp sp2 and vista rc1
     
    aces, Oct 21, 2006
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