Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
Can anyone provide a list of programs that can be safely turned off / uninstalled. While I did find and disable the obvious, I'm not sure if some of the more knowledgeable users actually know more. I would appreciate any help.
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Apologies. I didn't mean to sound in any way like I was on the attack. Just wondering how "this can be" out loud. My extrovert way of writing, I suppose. Very sorry!
So, all emotion aside
... the flex you both speak of, I can't see how that would refer to flex in the body/lower part of the keyboard ... I lift the keyboard and push hard against the lower plate in the housing and
nothing gives. How much more it wouldn't give by mere finger strikes, even at 60+ words a minute. It feels very solid to me, esp when I replace the keyboard giving me, in essence, two sheets of metal as a base under the keys.
So are you perhaps referring to the bounce the keys give? To the way the keys feel when you type?
Or, as I said earlier, my keyboard does have a slight warp in it in the upper middle edge. Perhaps yours has more and is making the plate & keys seat slightly above the lower retaining plate that gives the feeling of flex? Or perhaps the keyboard isn't firmly seated in its clips. Mine wasn't & I needed to push firmly around all sides until it was clearly seated & clipped.
When I type, the keyboard does have a slight high-pitched rattle/jingle under the keys. Not sure if yours does as well.
But pushing hard all around the upper surface of the keyboard, I just can't find or feel any flex in mine. BUT that slight warp up near my F8 key does keep that area slightly raised above the housing (easy for me to see it with my eyes & feel with my fingers), but that isn't what I translate as significant flex.
Perhaps its just the meaning of words I'm wrangling with.
Well, I tried that, but due to running two video-intensive apps side-by-side, I couldn't see if it was improved.
HULU+GPU-Z (or Everest Ultimate) showed the NVIDIA GPU under load. Then I opened WinDVD at the same time. NVIDIA still under load.
Then I closed HULU/Firefox but left the WinDVD window running, ... slowly, slowly (20 sec), the load decreased on the NVIDIA page until it rested on 0% or no load at all, which would imply that WinDVD 9 at that time was running under the IGP. Same story for PowerDVD 9. So I'm not sure what that means! -
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1. I've upgraded to 205, and nothing noticeable seems to have changed. I wouldn't worry about it, but if you want to give it a whirl I had no issues using ASUS's EasyFlash utility.
2. Currently, Optimus requires a special driver. There are slightly newer Optimus drivers (189.79) available here. In theory Optimus support should be rolled into the standard nVidia reference notebook driver "eventually," but for now we're stuck with slightly out-of-date drivers.
Edit: Beaten to it.
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This is interesting, lowlymarine. Remember that I told you I had slight flex/warp up by my F8 key? I took out my keyboard again and gently bent it up near the F8 key the opposite of my warp. My left edge also had (an even smaller) lift. I gently bent down on the edge. I then replaced the keyboard.
My F8 and left edge no longer had any slight lift ... but now there is a tiny lift between my F2 & F3 key.
This shows me:
1) The aluminum plate on the underside of the keyboard is fairly thin and can be bent, and may not be perfectly even/straight from the factory (my screen bezel still isn't).
2) A perfect fit is perhaps not easy as it may be slightly warped somewhere on the keyboard plate. Even my taking it out puts pressure on areas and might warp it slightly.
3) And there is a keyboard ribbon on the underside of the keyboard that doubles-over and is pushing up on the keyboard plate as well. This prevents a perfectly snug fit ... but it is still a pretty good fit on my U30Jc.
And that secondary plate under the keyboard plate is solid and assures me that there is no real structural flex/weakness ... more the feeling of flex if any area of the keyboard is warped and not resting flat on the chassis' metal plate.
You may want to note where it most "pops up", pop out your keyboard and gently bend where the keyboard has been most raised up.
It's easy to pop out the keyboard. Just insert a flat-headed screwdriver (or I use my tiny Swiss-army knife's flat-headed blade) in the small openings at the top of the keyboard. There are 4 clips underneath them to push down on. Do them one-by-one and you'll feel the keyboard pop loose as the clips release. The botton of the keyboard has vertical slots that slide in and out.
BTW, if you are still a "lowly Marine", I had one son in the Marines (two tours in Falluja) and a second son who is presently a "Data Marine". He is on tour on a ship even now and just got his corporal stripes! -
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That's the reason I inserted "I think"
ArcSoft lists it as for 32+64-bit so with the way Optimus handles it, I assumed it was a 64-bit app. I'll reinstall it and look, but I think you're right.
If a 32-bit, it should install in the Program Files (x86) directory ... which it does, so it's a 32-bit app.
So then, what is it that is making the difference, and those launch files with underscores (or normal looking as in TMT3)?
An eventual Optimus driver update may sort out these tiny issues.
Yep, should've just bought TMT3 Platinum and been done with it. I was fighting with the price tag. I now see there are discounts available if I had looked in the right place.
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Arcsoft frequently gives out coupon codes for 20-30% off. Just do a quick search and you can find several active ones
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U30JC discussion thread
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