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    Questions on P100-ST7111

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by thinhle1812, Apr 19, 2006.

  1. thinhle1812

    thinhle1812 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have some question about this laptop:
    - Do I have to reformat and reinstall OS before playing any games?
    - Anyone had their hands on this? I ordered on 4/6 and it is still not shipped yet.
     
    thinhle1812, Apr 19, 2006
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    Not necessarily. Toshiba's do come standard with a lot of "junk" which can hurt performance in certain cases. I would try one or 2 of the games you most play and see if you are satisfied with the performance, if not then you can go about reformatting it or just deleting some uneeded software from Add/Remove menu.

    Remember that Toshiba do not provide OEM Win XP disc's but rather a restore DVD which restores it to factory state(includes all the pre loaded software).
     
    miner, Apr 19, 2006
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    i do not know about software, but as for the shipping

    get in line bud :)

    i ordered on 3/30 and it is yet to be shipped (promised today)
     
    Renegate, Apr 19, 2006
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    I ordered mine on April 11 and it had a expected ship date of April 19. The Toshiba website was down for some reason so I called them and they said that it had shipped today.
     
    dgkulzer, Apr 19, 2006
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    Toshiba's do come with some junk software, but not nearly as much as in Dell's notebooks (having had experience with both makers). Also, Toshiba notebooks come with the cool ConfigFree and Toshiba Power Saving software.

    I'd just delete the junk software because if you try to do a clean reinstall, you'll still get the junk software because it's part of the reinstall discs.
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Apr 19, 2006
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    isn't there someway to extract just the OS install from the restore disk? I could have sworn I did this on an HP laptop for my wife's work.
     
    Pharoke, Apr 20, 2006
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    Not from what I've expereinced with Toshiba's back-up software (on an old Satellite - 5105 Series - and an Qosmio G15). All the junkware comes with the reinstall. Maybe Toshiba changed their policy on the issue though - I'm not familiar with the latest models, but I have a good feeling they haven't.
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Apr 20, 2006
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    Oh the HP came with a ton of junkware too, I was pretty certain I located the XP install file and copied it to its own folder along with the drivers and then created a new bootable cd containing just those 2 folders. I then wiped the laptop and used the stripped down xp install and drivers and everything loaded fine.
     
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    Hmm...

    What model do you have? My dad's Qosmio re-install discs don't let you mess around with the reinstall drivers/software.
     
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    It is about 2 years old now and a permanent part of the Chief's house (wife works for a fire dept). I just remebered I opened up the explorer view of the cd's and poked around till I found the drivers folder and the winxp folder and copied them to a new cd.
     
    Pharoke, Apr 21, 2006
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