Bought a new computer

need a better graphics card.

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Originally Posted by Tawm

right click > unlock > then drag it up another line?

Ewww, why Google sidebar when Windows is better?!

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Dunno how to change it :(

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Originally Posted by --ss--

It isn't exactly rubbish but it's too different to XP and quite fiddly and annoying to use.

The screen is far too big for me , it's starting to strain my eyes and everything looks tiny, If I try to lower the resolution it all messes up :'(

The actual computers are quite cheap but it's all the software which makes the prices insanely high :(

Quad Core ftw.

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You're the first person I've seen who's said Vista is too different to XP :P The usual reason is it's too similar :P It's inbetween similar and different in my opinion, it works better than XP either way, you'll get used to it :)

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

You're the first person I've seen who's said Vista is too different to XP :P The usual reason is it's too similar :P It's inbetween similar and different in my opinion, it works better than XP either way, you'll get used to it :)

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Well they are actually quite similar but they've changed all the small details and things which makes it extremely annoying, I see they've removed Power DVD player and replaced it with WMP >.<
It's actually quite good but it's still annoying.

they had the exact same one down at my local PC world and it was 554.99 on special offer. I was going to get it then i decided to go to comet and get a HP one.

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Originally Posted by djdan93

they had the exact same one down at my local PC world and it was 554.99 on special offer. I was going to get it then i decided to go to comet and get a HP one.

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The PCworld staff are sly, they tried to say that it was an one time offer which you can't get in any other pcworld/comet/currys store :rolleyes:
The actual computer is cheap but the software adds quite abit to the final price , the MS student package costs £100 (and that's not even the full package) , Norton costs £30 (Which is quite cheap and it gives you 3 licences for 3 comps so it's quite an good offer) aswell as insurance for the first few months just incase anything happens.

I got told that Windows Vista automatically checks every one off the MS packages installed to see if they're legit and if they're not it will void your warrently and stop working correctly. Doubt it's true as you probably could get around it all but it's better to be safe and legal than blow a ton on money.

you got ripped off for that

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but i think now you got it you keep it

I thought to use more than 2gb of ram you requried 64-bit version of vista? If I'm right you have an unused gb of ram on your pc? Might just be me though.

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Originally Posted by mr.parasols

I thought to use more than 2gb of ram you requried 64-bit version of vista? If I'm right you have an unused gb of ram on your pc? Might just be me though.

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He has 3GB RAM, it's fine.

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Originally Posted by mr.parasols

I thought to use more than 2gb of ram you requried 64-bit version of vista? If I'm right you have an unused gb of ram on your pc? Might just be me though.

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you need 64-Bit if you have 4GB+ total (inc. video card mem).


Vista doesn't check for legitimacy, its PC World wanting you to spend money at their store, I've been using Office 2007 for long enough.