Just got Acer Travelmate 8200, cleaning up?

I just got my brand new Acer Travelmate 8200 in the mail today, and its awesome, but has all this trash pre-installed on it. I remeber a few people saying I should change a few settings, but I'm having some trouble finding them. Any suggestions on what to clean out and what to keep?

Thanks,
Kulupa

 

what build is it? is it having all the mentioned problems?

 

Overall I've not really had to clean anything out from mine, the only change that I found was REQUIRED was the DPI

For that, Right click on the desktop, choose properties (will open display properties) click Settings Tab, click advanced, and then in the general tab should be a DPI setting, change it to 96 (normal) from 128 (assuming it's at 128 initially) it will make all the text slightly smaller, but make most programs work properly.

Other than that the only thing I've cleaned off was power management just because I found it was irking me.

 

I actually like the higher dpi. How did it mess up programs for you?

 

hi, i wanna ask the package bundle contents, thanks..

 

Basically bad programming, not sure if windows or of programs run in windows, but if you search back to when the 8200 came out you'll find some people had issues with programs not showing everything but not having scroll window.

But if you don't find it an issue, then don't worry about it (I much prefer the smaller DPI).

Oh, and I never installed the Norton stuff, I use AVG and it works just fine for my virus protection needs (I used Kerio as a firewall).

Carbonic15, are you asking what the pre-installed software contains?

 

I see what you mean. I get that on some occasions when browsing the internet, but i can still usually read everything just fine. I can definetly see where that could be a problem though. Thanks

 

I mean what is inside the box of the 8200..
Thanks

 

Um, what it says on the Acer site, basically 2GB Ram, 2Ghz Dual Core (think it was 2Ghz) X1600 video card, just lookup the specs on any site, it's not "customizable" (at least at buying time) so every single one is the same (if it's an 8204).

 

Let me recommend a freeware called MouseZoom. It allows you to zoom in on text that appear too small on websites. Thats how I handled that problem.

 

Can you check for a problem that I think is inherent in all of the Acer TM8204 models. Bring up IE6 and hit the F10 key. Did the "File" menu option become active? If not, you are seeing the same driver conflict that I am. I've sent my laptop to Acer twice now.

 

Hitting F10 seems to mimic what happens when I press the ALT key, i.e. the file menu becomes active.