New Gateway P7811FX

I finally got a new laptop (Gateway P7811FX as it says in title)

and well... I was wondering what programs I should put on it, etc.

Thanks for all (future) replies

 

I would start with the Pheonix BIOS editor...only set you back 6K for the proggie, then after that we need to move into hard drive recovery software doe ultra deep scans...maybe another 1500 dollars

from there you need an operating system... i've always liked windows 3.1, but i've heard 3.5 is better.

And man you have to get the complete adobe package.

Then a really good antivirus... well just skip that and go ahead and delete your drives 0 sector.



Mate, its your computer... do what ever you want to with it. But most of us get it to game and to work. Thats a pretty good place to start

 

hahaha lol

Well... I was kinda wondering like what antivirus software was good, etc. I was thinking kapersky but $100 is kinda a lot .

And could you recommend something that could monitor temps and so on? I remember using one but I forgot lol .

 

I would install a game and hope it doesn't freeze.......if it does, you may be back at best buy

anyway, good luck on your new lappy

 

Ccleaner and AusLogics Disk Defrag.

 

hwmonitor is free, 64 bit version recommended

 

uhh... I'm at a school campus and forgot to bring me games . so any ideas? maybe a crysis demo or something?

 

+1 to ccleaner, and i use JKdefrag. very nice little command line/very basic gui defragging tool and it optimizes the files according to how you want it to. http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/

 

i would try unreal tournament 3 demo, its less demanding

 

Avast is a good one and free!

Hwmonitor for temps.

 

does anyone know how to increase download speeds? I tried downloading the crysis/UT3 demos and the download speeds were around 20kb/s with a total downloading time between 11 and 23 hours (the internet is REALLY slow)

and what drivers should I use for the laptop?

 

Antivirus - AVG http://free.avg.com/
Good Software to help humanity with - Folding@home GPU client http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther
Driver to use with the folding software - http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20200
Games - Grid, Unreal Tournament 3, Call of Duty 4...games are all personal preference.

 

LOL just goes to show, you should read every 7811 thread or you are certain to miss valuable information.

+1 rep to Kamin_Majere for being hilarious and informative.

 

I'll second the recommendation of Avast antivirus. Great software, and it works with XP Pro x64 edition if anyone else out there besides me is using it

 

Essential: Auslogics Defrage, CCleaner, and Malwarebytes,
use these programs at least once every 2weeks

Games: Crysis Demo: CCC MOD lvl4 at 1680 1050
Left 4 Dead: All maxed out
Grid: all maxed out
Devil Maycry 4 demo all maxed out
and of Course CoD4 demo: all maxed out.

Have fun!!!!

GATEWAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

 

Call of duty 2 3 4 and 5
BF2 & bad company

And add GRID if you like racing!

 

Kaspersky Internet Security...it is superb

 

I like to keep a light load of only necessary programs:

Avira Premium
Firefox
Itunes
Defraggler
CCleaner
Recuva
Aim
Office
Steam
SpywareBlaster

 

I just bought one of these things (gateway P-7811FX ) any threads on the performance? The specs are too good to be true for the $ lol and I heard you either get a good one or a bad one lol WTH does that mean????

 

Iffin yours works then you got a GOOD one. Do I really need to explain the second part?

 

agreed, great antivirus.

 

nod32 works get too, updates their definitions 8+ times aday,

I use AVG 8.0 free, its built for gamers, a very low system hog