On Mon, 15 May 2006 13:45:19 -0700, "Harondel J. Sibble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Ben
>
>Did you actually upgrade from 2k to XP, ie used a windows XP Upgrade cd?
Yes.
>If the former, that kind of odd behaviour is fairly common with upgrades as
>some drivers don't necessarily get updated to the newer ones from XP in that
>scenario. There are some MSKB articles on this, none of which I have on hand.
This is a Dell Latitude c600. I followed Dell's instructions to re-apply all
the relvant drivers for audio, video, etc.
>Did you do all the windows updates?
Yes, as of the date I did this upgrade (about 2 weeks ago now).
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On Mon, 15 May 2006 23:32:35 +0200, Richard King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Is it really necessary to shut down a laptop? I usually just close the lid,
>& if I'm at a client's, by the time I've unplugged everything & stuffed it
>all in its bag, the leds have turned off & it's all calm.
Sometimes, yes. When I'am about to go to the airport for a 4 hour flight,
(add 2 hours getting to airport, and 1-2 more hours getting to final
destination) Sometimes also necessary to reboot when connecting to a new
network or switching to/from wireless LAN connection. Anyway, it's my choice
and I want to avoid the long delay.
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On Tue, 16 May 2006 07:02:04 -0400, Marc Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You've probably got some processes that are slow to shutdown and are hung
>this is causing Windows XP to delay the shutdown.
I doubt it. Closing down processes does not begin until I have made the
selection of shutdown/hibernate/reboot. The long wait I'm talking about
occurs before that 3 part choice comes up, not after I've made my choice.
>There's a registry hack to speed up stuck and hung processes.
Thanks. I'll take a look at that.
>Windows XP, Me and 98 makes automatic backups of the registry at
>timed intervals through System Restore
System Restore is disabled on my machine.
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On Tue, 16 May 2006 21:22:31 +0100, James David Byrne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What happens if you do a shutdown from safe mode? Are all drivers in device
>manager OK? James :-)
I can't get to safe mode w/o rebooting. I still have the long wait to get to
the menu where I could choose to do that. No yellow ! warnings or red error
signs on any devices in device mgr.
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