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    vLite - G50VT driver help

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by zakazak, Apr 18, 2009.

  1. zakazak

    zakazak www.whymacsucks.com

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    Hello, i want to make a customized vista without all the unneeded stuff from vista & asus. But i really dont know which drivers & programs are needed and what they really do !

    The CD is full of programms.. there is smth like Wifi and then Wlan.. both programm which should do the same. Also there as 700 ATK drivers which all seemed to be installed on the original vista installation. So which of them do i really need?

    I thought about mainly installing the driver from the asus homepage. Still there is alot missing. I mean all the asus.com downloads are like 100mb... but the cd has like 600mb of drivers/software and i really dont know which ones are needed. It would be nice if some asus g50(vt-a1) owner could check their asus driver cd and tell me. Should be better than if i make a list from all the programm on that cd as there are like 6 ATK-Drivers which all seem to do smth else (or not?)

    Thanks alot.
    Also made a topic here as i had some other questions about vLite:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4754344
     
    zakazak, Apr 18, 2009
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  2. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    Just download all the drivers from the Asus page or use your system disk it should have a drivers disk with it.

    On the driver disk it usually says "required" "important" "optional" on it.

    If you go the online route, install anything that is a driver and just not the applications.

    Really Asus leaves hardly any "bloatware" on there fresh installs, you can achieve the same thing from a fresh Asus image and just uninstalling a few trial programs and manybe depending on your laptop a few other applications that you may never use (like on the W90 it has camera software I wont use)

    Its very easy to just uninstall that stuff, easier than installing only what you need.

    The only reason to do it the "hard way" is that you want to use a different OS than the factory image.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Apr 19, 2009
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  3. zakazak

    zakazak www.whymacsucks.com

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    cant uninstall them :p
    there are some drivers/programms which dont have a uninstaller (also not able to uninstall via control panel) and also cant be deleted as they are in use. But this arent drivers/programsm which are on the asus page

    and i wanted to make a modified vista version with vLite.. so i leave alot of stuff and install my progs already etc etc :>
     
    zakazak, Apr 20, 2009
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