Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:35:51 -0800 From: Chester Prudhomme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] WinXP upgrade on 110
Richard Hartzman wrote: > Subject: WinXP upgrade on 110 > > Hearing about the success of others in upgrading their Librettos to WinXP, I > decided to take the plunge, doing an upgrade from WinME. Using an external > CD-ROM the upgrade went flawlessly, as did the additional upgrade to the > Service Pack 1. After doing the upgrade I inserted a variety of PC card > devices - 56K modem, ethernet network adapter, USB cardbus. WinXP > recognized them and installed the drivers without any intervention on my > part. Only the wireless card required a manual driver install and a network > setup. But once done, it works just fine. Some software, such as Norton > Utilities required a reinstall to accommodate the new operating system. > > I miss the hairy lightbult (does anyone know how to get it back) but the > power setup icon can be set to appear in the system tray (now called > notification area) allowing for easy change from one power configuration to > another. The Win2K power extensions downloadable from Toshiba run in XP and > provide some extra tweaking of power settings. > > Initially I had the difficulty others have encountered with the display size > being too large; but as I found, the settings can be changed in the Display > properties under "adapter card". However, I found a freeware utility on the > web to replace the Toshiba display switch which resided in the system tray. > Just do a google search for quickresNT. The small (34K) utility works just > like the old display switch. Put a shortcut for the utility in the Startup > menu so it will always reside in the notification area. Right click on the > icon and make the same kind of display switches which were available with > the Toshiba utility. > > My initial impression is that under XP the system is more stable and handles > swapping in and out of cards much better; but that the little critter > generally runs slower. The boot is especially slow. If anyone knows how to > tweak for better speed (I've done what I can with the usual tips and with > Xteq-Systems setup) I'd sure like to hear. > > Richard I recently did a full install of XP Pro on my L110 and couldn't be more happy about it! I was running Win2K before that but I recently went to XP Pro on my desktop upon doing a major hardware upgrade. I'm finding XP Pro to be incredibly stable and easy to use on both computers. Like Richard the only criticism I have of XP on the Libretto is the slow boot but if I can't find a tweak to use on this issue it won't be all the big of a deal as the tradeoff is far to the positive side of the OS scale. In the evolution of the upgrade of my desktop I first thought I would use XP Home before realizing that I would need the Pro version. As a result I have a new, sealed box, full XP Home - 2002 edition if anybody is interested in it. I'll take a loss on it and ship it at buyers cost to boot - email me off-list. In retrospect, it probably would have run better on the Libby than the Pro version I wound up using. Chester ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
