Archive for the ‘HP Laptop’ Category

This video series will be all about getting the best performance out of your laptop. It will include hardware, Windows and software tips and tricks. I’ll tell you everything i can to make using your laptop more enjoyable. In this first part i talk about software and common misconceptions about Vista. I also briefly explain how you can discover driver problems, and the next part will be about solving these problems. Useful software: QuickPlay Remapper by yours truly – Change the function of the QuickPlay buttons on your HP laptop to anything you wish: www.quickplay.hostzi.com nVidia mobile drivers: www.laptopvideo2go.com Avira antivirus: www.free-av.com AVG antivirus free edition: www.free.avg.com CCleaner – clean temporary files, freeing space and speeding up your system: www.ccleaner.com DPC Latency Checker – discover driver conflicts, find out why your audio is dropping out: www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml And there’s probably many more which i forgot to mention. I’m sorry for the rushed ending but i had to fit in 10 minutes… I’ll explain the DPC latency checker more in the next vid, IMPORTANT:: All the HP Vista installs i have seen so far present DPC latency issues, which translate into audio crackles/pops/stutters and video lags. I can easily see other manufacturers being the same… On both my HP laptops (DV9000 and DV5) i was able to get rid of the stutters with a clean installation of Windows 7 and by only installing the drivers from HP, not any helper …