New Notebook Woes

I just got my first new comp in 5 years and my first ATI card ever. Its a dell inspiron 8600 notebook with 18 mb ati radeon 9600 proturbo. I went to ATI for drivers and they say they have none for notebooks for various reasons.

The point of this post is to ask what can i do now to improve my driver performace/quality.

Also what other things in general should i do to my notebook to improve it/ tweak it

for example: i have already removed things from the startup programs list

but what else?

btw the rest of the notebooks config is 512 ddr ram, 60 ghz @7600 rpm, pentium m 2.0

help.

 

You can try www.omegadrivers.net, here you can get drivers to overclock your GPU. Read all the warnings before overclocking. You can do a search in Google for "windows xp tweaking", they usually have a bunch of sites that have little tweaks you can do to your OS. But personally, I wouldn't go tweaking things right fron the get go after receiving your unit, you may cause more problems then it solves. Use your system for a while and see how everything works, if everything goes great, then there's no need to tweak/overclock. But if you notice that the systems slow, try reloading the OS from scratch and just the required drivers.

-Vb-

 

scan for spyware with:
adaware
spybot

scan for viruses:
avg anti virus free edition

have a firewall:
sygate

run windows disk clean up and disk defrager

i assume its not an 18mb graphics card.

if you need links for the products i listed, let me know.

people also talk about partitioning your harddrive for operating system, files, and programs, but i dont know much about that.

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Fujitsu S6210: 1.6Ghz PM ~ 768MB RAM ~ 60GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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Thanks.
Yes it is 128 mb not 18

and i have one more question.

The laptop came with a Dell Optical mouse. However when i played a FPS with this mouse it would spontaneously cause my crosshair to fling up and twirl 360 degrees. I used a optical mouse before this one and this never happened to me. Why does it do this and is there a way to fix it?

help.

 

Optical mice also run based on drivers. Your best bet would be to see if Dell has some new drivers for your mouse. Also, if you take out the mouse, and replug it in, a notice should come up at the bottom of the screen saying that new hardware was recognized. Double clicking this notice should bring up an installation that could also help you find up to date drivers.