Bought a new laptop last week and was kicking the tires. Everything requires a freaking driver that don't work and don't see how this was a step up from XP. Does anybody know how to turn off the double click on the mouse pad option? I'm constantly confirming selections when I'm not trying to. XP had an option to only use the mouse buttons for confirmation. Will I lose performance if I go back to XP and will I have to reinstall an ass load of drivers if I do that? Vista sucks!
There are some really nice things about it - It uses memory much better than XP ever did, but it does require much more (luckily RAM is cheap 4GB for ~$100).
Drivers really shouldn't be an issue is the laptop is new, unless it's some odd off-brand. The manufacturers website should have Vista drivers for everything you'd need.
One thing that helped me a great deal was disabling Windows Defender. It'll remove all the annoying "do you really want to run this program" type warnings. As long as you back things up, or keep important stuff on a seperate partition or HD, I'd highly suggest this as those confirmations were driving me nuts.
Can't help /w the double click stuff, sorry.
Drivers really shouldn't be an issue is the laptop is new, unless it's some odd off-brand. The manufacturers website should have Vista drivers for everything you'd need.
One thing that helped me a great deal was disabling Windows Defender. It'll remove all the annoying "do you really want to run this program" type warnings. As long as you back things up, or keep important stuff on a seperate partition or HD, I'd highly suggest this as those confirmations were driving me nuts.
Can't help /w the double click stuff, sorry.
I read more on what could possible be up and what I found out is I have the 64 bit version and most programs that are compatible with Vista run off 32 bit max. I don't know how to change to 32 bit but I understand I lose speed and performace by going backwards. My question is: why in the hell wold they make a laptop or PC that is far ahead of the software makers? It forces you to buy the newest programs and even some of the are not 64 bit compatible yet? I do like the speed and performance aspect though but I will have to update everything and some programs again aren't even 64 bit compatible yet (Palm Desktop, Microsoft Office and etc.) 
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Windows 7 to arrive by 2009 holiday season
Expect to see Windows 7 right around this time next year.
CNET reports that during a technical session at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft director Jim Howe gave a presentation that seemed to confirm that Windows 7 will be on PCs by next year’s holiday season. (Techmeme) This little nugget isn’t exactly a big surprise.
Also see: New signs point to Windows 7 debuting earlier than expected
“Definitely the holiday focus is going to be on 7,” Howe told CNET following his presentation during a technical session about Velocity, a program designed to improve PC quality. It has been widely speculated, though never confirmed by Microsoft, that Windows 7 will ship around mid-year, in time to be on machines that ship for the 2009 holiday season.
Microsoft has avoided a public commitment on a shipping date for Windows 7, trying to avoid the PR hit that would come from missing a deadline. The official word from the company is that Windows will ship within three years of the January 2007 consumer release of Windows Vista. The company has said that it will ship a beta version early next year.
Expect to see Windows 7 right around this time next year.
Also see: New signs point to Windows 7 debuting earlier than expected
“Definitely the holiday focus is going to be on 7,” Howe told CNET following his presentation during a technical session about Velocity, a program designed to improve PC quality. It has been widely speculated, though never confirmed by Microsoft, that Windows 7 will ship around mid-year, in time to be on machines that ship for the 2009 holiday season.
Microsoft has avoided a public commitment on a shipping date for Windows 7, trying to avoid the PR hit that would come from missing a deadline. The official word from the company is that Windows will ship within three years of the January 2007 consumer release of Windows Vista. The company has said that it will ship a beta version early next year.
