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    acer 3810 with vista ultimate? help please

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by lobnany12, Feb 18, 2010.

  1. lobnany12

    lobnany12 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello I have laptop acer as3810 aspire timeline, it is 13'3 inch and 4gb ram with 320 hard disk and intel core 2 solo su3500 processor, and with vista home premium and i want it vista ultimate.. so I bought vista ultimate cd with activation and all thing and I want to install it, but will it affect the 8 hours battery life, and all the programs will be deleted and in this laptop there is no dvd rom and no cd for acer programs and software.. If I will install windows vista ultimate how i will get acer webcam,acer gamezone,acer aspire as3810 pdf file,acer screensaver,acer wallpapers,acer recovery button, bluetooth, wifi, wlan wireless and the most important that when i change the volume and turn on bluetooth and the touchpad locker it make affect on the screen how i can let these effects still appeared on the screen after changing the windows vista home, are there specific software for this laptop in internet and where and how to let these effects still appeared and gained the 8hours battery life?
    please I need help
     
  2. lobnany12

    lobnany12 Notebook Enthusiast

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    please I want help now
     
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    lobnany12 Notebook Enthusiast

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    please i want help
     
  4. Les

    Les Not associated with NotebookReview in any way

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    If I were you I wouldnt touch the system. You need to have a basic understanding of the system and what you are getting yourseld into before making the jump. In what you say, it appears you are standing on the plank blindfolded and ready to jump.

    The answers to all of your questions are simple and can be found with just a bit of reading.
     
  5. Donno

    Donno Newbie

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    I agree with Les, however you'll probably forge ahead anyway. I installed win 7 and just upgraded from Vista rather than doing a clean install. Battery life looked short for awhile after the upgradeuntil the new os got used to things and now its shows 6 to 8 hours on a charge depending on what I'm doing.
    I had a usb ide adapter which I hooked up to an old dvd drive. Any usb dvd drive would work. I launched the setup program from windows and chose to upgrade. An hour later everything was ok to go. Vista ultimate should work the same way.
    There is a technique to copy Windows installation DVD onto a bootable thumb drive, 4 gig minimum. Look around the web for instructions.
    You might try making some restore discs if you have a usb dvdrw drive or you can restore from the embeded restore partition if you get into trouble.
    It helps to have another web connected pc to troubleshoot any problems that pop up.
     
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    lobnany12 Notebook Enthusiast

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    thanks for help, but I have one more question
    will the affects on the screen when i change the volume,turn on bluetooth,acer recovery still appear after upgrading or installing new windows
     
  7. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    If the don't, just go to Acer's website and download the drivers.