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    Some crazy things about Vista

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by bigdarkmad, Dec 29, 2008.

  1. bigdarkmad

    bigdarkmad Notebook Evangelist

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    I WANT TO WARN ALL GUYS HERE FOR SOME "ISSUES" IN VISTA!
    1. I had strange issue - "Screen Server/Turn Off Display" was non-working!
    Or simple I was 5-6 hours out and "Screen Server" was set to 10 minutes; Turn Off Display - 20! But the Screen always was active!
    I FOUND SOMETING VERY INTERESTING - I HAVE MICROSOFT WIRELESS OPTICAL 4000 MOUSE! It must work and work withe default Vista Driver!
    But the USB receiver (for the mouse) was somehow detected by Vista as "activity" and Vista never went into "screen server or Turn Off the Display"...
    Crazy Work!
    I found Microsoft Intelly driver for my Mouse.After I installed this driver - imediattely "Screen Server/ Turn Off the Display" options started to functionally property!
    Happy NOW :)


    2.When I installed Windows Vista - it was with default "standard video driver"!
    My video card (Graphics; Gaming graphics) were scored "Base score 1"
    I had problems with HD movies in GOM player - they were very laggy and slow!I played them fine with WM Player but with GOM...
    I had too some other problems...
    Today just for fun I refreshed my whole score!My video card (Graphics; Gaming graphics) were scored "score Base 4"!
    AND WHAT A SURPRISE - now GOM works perfect with HD movies, I have more visual effects (some no needed)...

    So It is crazy too, but somehow Windows Vista dedicates automaticly "how to work" based on your "Score"

    Always "Score" your hardware if you want full performance, because if you skip this option - Windows can automatically limit your performance.Very bad and crazy for me, but it is the true!

    my english is bad, but I just want to show YOU - how this small on first look "non important" things can make you tons of problems - in my case "Non-active screen server/ Turn Off Display" and "BAD overall graphic performance - especially GOM with HD movies (GOM is my favorite video player)