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    What do you add/change on your Sager after a clean install?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by gbn1600, May 14, 2015.

  1. gbn1600

    gbn1600 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm curious what others do to their Sager laptops after a clean install.
     
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    ShadowKntSDS Notebook Geek

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    Besides drivers,

    1) disable tap to click on the touch pad to preserve my sanity
    2) Move all of the fluff systems folders ("Download", "My Documents", etc) from the SSD to the HDD.
    3) Install Chrome
    4) Install Google Drive
    5) Install Steam
     
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  3. Support.3@XOTIC PC

    Support.3@XOTIC PC Company Representative

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    If you're into monitoring temps HWMonitor is one of the first things I put on. Malwarebytes too, just in case.
     
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    I guess I should add that I have a ton of portable apps and light weight installers on my google drive. That's what I use to cover my basics (HW monitoring, virus/malware scanners, VLC, etc).
     
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  5. Captain_Bobby

    Captain_Bobby Notebook Consultant

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    1) Disable hibernate
    2) Install Foxit reader ( smaller footprint than Adobe )
    3) Install Flash for my YouTube channel.
    4) Install FRAPS
    5) Install NVidia Inspector.
    6) Install my Flight Simulators, hit up the flight attendant for a beer, and start flying :D
     
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    Support.3@XOTIC PC Company Representative

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    You can also change you Page File size. It will default to match your RAM (16GB). On a 128GB SSD thats a bit to be taken up.
     
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  7. Ethrem

    Ethrem Notebook Prophet

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    1) Install Windows updates
    2) Move page file from SSD to HD (with 32GB of RAM... Yikes)
    3) Update all drivers and Hotkey (Windows Update breaks something inevitably, usually Hotkey)
    4) Install Chrome, Steam, Origin, uPlay, RTSS, HWiNFO64 and link game directories to my HD instead of SSD.
    5) Disable all idle tasks in task scheduler
    6) Set automatic updates to download but ask me to install so I can review them
     
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  8. octiceps

    octiceps Nimrod

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    This seems really counterproductive? You're better off disabling page file entirely instead.
     
    octiceps, May 14, 2015
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  9. Ethrem

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    I have some apps that won't work without it. I can't remember them off the top of my head but Catzilla had suggested disabling the page file since I had so much RAM and a few of my games wouldn't work anymore. So I set it to 16GB on one of my 7200RPM drives. Doesn't really seem to impact performance to be honest but has the best compatibility without sucking up the space on my RAID array
     
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    I know, that's why I advocate shrinking page file if you have a lot of RAM, not disabling it. But just so you're aware of this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx

     
    octiceps, May 14, 2015
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    Ethrem, May 14, 2015
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