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    DVD-Ram Showing in Safely Remove Hardware

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Luxury17, Feb 4, 2008.

  1. Luxury17

    Luxury17 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello all,

    I've just finished talking off Vista (sheesh, 10 minutes to load and 10 minutes to shut down! What was MS thinking?) and installing XP Pro. I've got a small issue now: My DVD-Ram drive is showing up in the Safely Remove Hardware area. I know the quick fix is to disable showing it through the start properties, but that does not fix the issue, it only hides it. Plus, I'm anal and don't like clutter.

    Any thoughts on how to fix this? Thanks!
     
    Luxury17, Feb 4, 2008
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  2. Arki

    Arki Super Moderator

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    I don't think there's a way to disable it from showing. The optical drive is a removable device, similar to a USB Drive. I would like it not to show myself, but I have yet to find a solution to this.
     
    Arki, Feb 4, 2008
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    Justintoxicated Notebook Geek

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    Cray I just put on vista 64 and it boots up really fast on mine, once I log in it takes about a full 5 seconds lol maybe a min total though. only have 1.8ghz too.
     
    Justintoxicated, Feb 4, 2008
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    Don't blame vista, its all the bloatware crap because mine was the same way. Of course if your turning it on for the first time its doing all its updating. Mine has 4gigs in it, 64-bit vista basic and 2ghz processor, starts up in ~20-25 seconds and shuts down in less than 10sec. I couldn't be happier.
     
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    Luxury17 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well I gave Vista a try after I removed as much of the bloatware as possible and still, 10 minutes to load/shutdown. I'm starting to wonder if it was all the stuff Lenovo put on it, as I didnt touch it because I wasnt for sure what I'd use.

    What I thought was really funny was the way they tried to make Vista like Apples OS, and sucked so completely bad at it.
     
    Luxury17, Feb 5, 2008
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    You would find Vista performs much better if you go with a "Clean Install"
     
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    Try performing some Vista tweaks from here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=166532

    I did them on my desktop w/ Vista and it killed 2 min of boot time.
     
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    Thanks for the hints Arkit, but I've already switched to XP. I use Adobe CS2 software for my work, and that was one of the reasons for switching back. I tried it on Vista, and ran into a lot of issues with it.

    Thanks for all your help guys! Looks like I'm stuck with the DVD showing up, which is ok. I'm getting used to it.
     
    Luxury17, Feb 5, 2008
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