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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: September 14, 2007, 03:42:08 PM »
Good luck, Gary! Hope you do well! 
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General Discussion / Re: Laptop Battery Life
« on: September 14, 2007, 09:13:22 AM »Yeah somewhere on your laptop there is a light that indicates that it is charging. As furball said, it will stay on while the battery is charging and go off when it is finished.There is - and it stays on while it's charging - but it goes off at around 97% charge, not 100% charge. :-\
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General Weather Chat / Re: Hurricane Central '07
« on: September 14, 2007, 07:19:24 AM »
Maybe it'll get to my cousin's name this year (Melissa), which is also a new name for the hurricane name list.
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General Discussion / Re: Laptop Battery Life
« on: September 14, 2007, 06:16:16 AM »Its recommended that you Calibrate your battery every month or so. You can do this by using your computer on battery power until the computer shuts off by itself. Then, plug in the power cord but DO NOT TURN ON THE COMPUTER and let it charge COMPLETELY with the computer off. (Repeat the steps above if desired). It should then work more efficiently.How would I tell if it was completely charged when the computer is off?
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General Discussion / Re: Laptop Battery Life
« on: September 13, 2007, 08:11:24 PM »In Vista, if you click the battery icon in the system tray, you can set it to "Power Saver" to save some battery life. There is also a link on that popup for the "Windows Mobility Center" there you can set things like the Display Brightness. If you put that on the lowest setting when on battery power, you can save some battery life because the LCD back-lightning doesn't have to be on full-strength.Thanks for those tips, Billy.
Also, you can change some power things in Control Panel > Power Settings. There you can change around all of the power settings, again like display brightness, when the computer goes to sleep, and when the computer display shuts off.
Also, if you don't need to be online when on battery power, some laptops have the option to turn off the wireless signal; wireless uses a lot of power.
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One tip though: are you certain your charging the battery 100% fully? you've always got to do that to maximize the battery.Nope, but very close, around 98 or 99 percent.
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General Discussion / Re: Laptop Battery Life
« on: September 13, 2007, 08:04:50 PM »Nope, that's about normal. 8)Really? I thought laptop batteries could go up to 2-3 hours on one charge.
Then again, I've never owned a laptop before, so I'm not an expert at this. 
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General Discussion / Laptop Battery Life
« on: September 13, 2007, 07:43:39 PM »
I noticed something weird with my laptop that I got yesterday. The battery doesn't hold a charge for very long at all. It'll last about an hour, and then I have to hook it up to my charger to charge it up again. 
Why does it do this, and is it possible to make it last longer?
Why does it do this, and is it possible to make it last longer?
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General Discussion / Re: Post your desktops
« on: September 13, 2007, 04:32:39 PM »Billy, whats the bars icon on your system tray? Wireless?The wireless icon is the icon with the two monitors and the globe.
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General Weather Chat / Re: Hurricane Central '07
« on: September 13, 2007, 03:12:36 PM »I was right Gary. It indeed formed into a hurricane. It seems that all the hurricanes this season, are rapidly intensifying such as Dean and Felix. I'd be shocked if it becomes a CAt 3 during landfall even though it's extremely unlikely.Hurricanes can't become Cat 3's over land.
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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Icons
« on: September 13, 2007, 06:11:16 AM »I see that only the standard message icon (the one with the little sheets of paper) is appearing on the pull-down menu now...Yes, I deleted the others. I'll get the IPB ones up sometime soon though.
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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: September 12, 2007, 09:29:51 PM »
Welcome to our newest member, MSquared980!
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General Discussion / Re: Post your desktops
« on: September 12, 2007, 09:28:52 PM »That beats out my laptop... I get a 2.7 for the Windows Experience Index.Wow, seeing as yours is a 64-bit and mine's a 32-bit, I would've expected the opposite.
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About the RAM amount. You mentioned it has onboard graphics...that's most likely the reason why it doesn't list a full 1 GB RAM.Yes, most likely.
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General Discussion / Re: Post your desktops
« on: September 12, 2007, 09:15:29 PM »
Some screenshots of my desktop on my new Vista laptop:
Desktop:
Windows Experience rating:
System info (the amount of RAM it shows for my system is incorrect, it is actually 1 GB):
Desktop:
Windows Experience rating:
System info (the amount of RAM it shows for my system is incorrect, it is actually 1 GB):
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The Game Room / Re: "In my pants" Game
« on: September 12, 2007, 05:40:35 PM »
I now own a laptop in my pants.
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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: September 12, 2007, 05:37:44 PM »Control Panel > User Accounts > Turn User Account Control on or off.Thanks Billy.
