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    this is not an acer system message

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Dosed, Aug 1, 2008.

  1. Dosed

    Dosed Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys. I have a problem. I used e recovery and now empowering wont run it says this is not an acer system. what should I do? thanks
     
    Dosed, Aug 1, 2008
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  2. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    have you burnt all the recovery DVD/CD's ?
    did you use any of the acer junk/bloatware?

    i have removed every part of empowering from my machine :D

    all the best,
    Phil :D
     
    hoggie, Aug 1, 2008
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  3. dms05

    dms05 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Don't worry about the Acer e-bloatware. I have replaced the original Acer Vista Home Premium with an OEM version. The only Acer drivers I have used were the one for the Crystal Eye webcam and the Acer Synaptics touchpad driver. When I installed Vista the MS Windows update found all the drivers it needed except these two. I have saved myself 12% of memory (250k) and my laptop runs faster and boots quicker.
     
    dms05, Aug 3, 2008
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    creeco Notebook Enthusiast

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    I used vlite to get rid of all vista's bloatware too. Everything runs much smoother now :D But you could try to reinstall empowering and see what happens.
     
    creeco, Aug 3, 2008
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