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the ati driver was just a example... ofcourse i found a driver but still my tv out worked like shit. never got my wireless working on my laptop. all together i spend several weeks on my little ubuntu adventure... but i havent given up hope on ubuntu yet, but just for now I have
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That's cool that's cool. If your currently running Windows though and have had that computer for a long time I suggest you run CCleaner it's a great program that deletes unnecessary files. It doesn't delete any documents or such though so don't worry about losing important files.

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There are also Windows live disks......in fact, you can make your own with just about any program on it. http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ Those are illegal and you need those mainly if you forgot your password or something, it's not really useful for anything other than recovering files and/or passwords and such.

Thanks for the advice but i already have those programs and i can vouch for their effectiveness.
I also have a little program called Tweaknow Powerpack XP 2006 which lets me play around with a few of XP's settings which are quite hard to get to and also does some automatic tweaks and optimizations.
I also use Perfect Disk 8.0 to defragment my disk for better performance. It works great and also does off-line defragmenting to make you're machine as smooth as possible.
The only annoyance I have with my current system is the lack of a graphics card so i can't play newer releases (Crysis, GoW, Oblivion) but the integrated graphics work fine for me most of the time.
I can run Half-Life 2 and Far Cry on medium settings at 1024x768 on a decent framerate so older titles are still accessible to me.
I also hate the fact that i am missing 8 MB from my "supposed" 1 GB of ram, making me fail most of the time at system requirements lab.
 

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That's cool that's cool. If your currently running Windows though and have had that computer for a long time I suggest you run CCleaner it's a great program that deletes unnecessary files. It doesn't delete any documents or such though so don't worry about losing important files.

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There are also Windows live disks......in fact, you can make your own with just about any program on it. http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ Those are illegal and you need those mainly if you forgot your password or something, it's not really useful for anything other than recovering files and/or passwords and such.

Thanks for the advice but i already have those programs and i can vouch for their effectiveness.
I also have a little program called Tweaknow Powerpack XP 2006 which lets me play around with a few of XP's settings which are quite hard to get to and also does some automatic tweaks and optimizations.
I also use Perfect Disk 8.0 to defragment my disk for better performance. It works great and also does off-line defragmenting to make you're machine as smooth as possible.
The only annoyance I have with my current system is the lack of a graphics card so i can't play newer releases (Crysis, GoW, Oblivion) but the integrated graphics work fine for me most of the time.
I can run Half-Life 2 and Far Cry on medium settings at 1024x768 on a decent framerate so older titles are still accessible to me.
I also hate the fact that i am missing 8 MB from my "supposed" 1 GB of ram, making me fail most of the time at system requirements lab.

That's because you have integrated graphics card.. Anyway glad I could help
 

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the ati driver was just a example... ofcourse i found a driver but still my tv out worked like shit. never got my wireless working on my laptop. all together i spend several weeks on my little ubuntu adventure... but i havent given up hope on ubuntu yet, but just for now I have
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I had issues with my wireless on my last laptop when I tried to install Ubuntu about a year ago. If you have a Broadcom wireless card, there are new drivers for fwcutter which makes it really easy to get working.
 

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I have no desire whatsoever to involve myself in a flameware (although this one does have about 200% more reason). As for the "free" point I would not find it odd if such a point falls on deaf ears around here.

anyhow tried this xcalibur?: http://www.oldblivion.com/?page=about (coincidently it also allows wine and moreover cedaga a better chance)

I did not post but I am waiting for a few things to appear like avisynth v3, better wine, kde (and associated frontends) before I give linux another shot.
 

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