Asus warranty fail

[ALLurGroceries]

A lot of those are probably security updates, but obviously it's your choice which to install.

More important is just having a working system with the right drivers installed and no bloatware.

[jasperchan]

Do I get to decide which ones to install? There is one button for "install updates" for all 64 of them

[tijo]

Yes there is an option for you to choose which ones you want to install. Click on the there are 64 updates available instead of install and you can choose which one ones you want.

[link626]

maybe power4gear hybrid if you like the asus power manager stuff

nah. don't install power4gear.
you don't need it. you can make your own custom power profiles.

I tried to uninstall power4gear once, and it wouldn't uninstall cleanly.
that's garbage.

[tijo]

I personally never had problems with uninstalling P4G. The only times P4G gave me troubles, was when i tried to install a version meant for another version of CPU. Asus doesn't state this, but certain versions were coded with a particular series of CPUs in mind and might not work exactly as they should if installed on a previous gen laptop. This happened to me when i both tried to install the versions that came out with Clarksfield on a Penryn notebook and a SNB version on a Clarksfield notebook.

[jasperchan]

so i plugged in the mouse, but the machine isn't installing the driver automatically like it did before... is every driver going to need to be manually installed from now on because of this reformat??

edit: nevermind... it installed after the 5th time I plugged in the mouse...

[tijo]

That's strange, but unless you run in another situation like that, just assume it was a fluke. I've had that happen to me once or twice. For things like mice and other common peripherals, those drivers will install automatically. It's mostly for the internal components that Windows might not have specific drivers.

[jasperchan]

I copied all the files from my new old laptop to the old new one, and am now installing programs and it hasn't BSOD'ed in 9 hours (the longest I've left the laptop on without restarting). I'm trying to run a exe file, but it's telling me I need my own permission to do it. I check the ownership of the file and it is indeed me, so what gives. To test the file to see if it's been corrupted since its last successful run, I tried running it on my other laptop and it has the same problem. I'm almost sure it's because of the AVG that I subsequently installed (due to the false positive trojan warnings), but disabling the antivirus did the same thing and the warnings somehow didn't go away.

I frikin hate windows 7. I swear Microsoft has shares in big pharmaceutical for advil and xanax and are trying to drum up sales....

edit: fixed - it was avg's resident shield, which takes an extra step to disable.

[link626]

yeah, see. Windows 7 itself is pretty user friendly.

it all goes to hell when you install extra crapware.

If i were you, I'd set a restore point while it's working flawlessly. that way you can always go back to this point without starting over from way in the beginning.

[jasperchan]

I just finished installing all my programs (Autocad/Adobe/Microsoft Office/Sketchup/Vray), and at some point I started having occasional lagtimes while doing stuff, but the mouse itself doesn't lag so I barely noticed when it started. Sometimes it's clicking an option in a drop-down menu and it taking several seconds for the switch to actually show. Or I'm exiting from fullscreen mode on a youtube video and it'll take a few sconds for the video to resume. Seems like a video card issue... I dunno?

i didn't create a restore point because at no point was the laptop functioning perfectly while everything i need is installed. i'm sure it's not the programs.

Another issue i forgot to mention is the adapter makes a quick chirping sound whenever I do anything, whether clicking from one folder window to the next, or whatever. It does it continuously if I try to render something or do anything memory intensive.