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Hi,
Refering to your tips on page 1; I changed my NC10 in the following ways – but my USB ports do not work!
– Uninstall mcafee
– Startup: disabled all, and selected all on your list – BUT: PreMKBD is not on my list
– Services – disabled all and selected all on your listThen re-selected all, and USB ports still not working 🙁
Did not touch device manager – except I’ve always have my ethernet port disabled
Any thoughts would be great. Thanks for all the effort anyway
The services or startup items should not make any difference on the USB-ports working or not.
If your USB-ports still aren’t working then try to do a “Basic” System restore using the Samsung Recovery Solution III.[quote1233439528=willym2k]
Hi,Refering to your tips on page 1; I changed my NC10 in the following ways – but my USB ports do not work!
– Uninstall mcafee
– Startup: disabled all, and selected all on your list – BUT: PreMKBD is not on my list
– Services – disabled all and selected all on your listThen re-selected all, and USB ports still not working 🙁
Did not touch device manager – except I’ve always have my ethernet port disabled
Any thoughts would be great. Thanks for all the effort anyway
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Freedy: I have a question about your performance tips and tricks.I don’t quite follow your instructions on how to disable the webcam on the NC10. Also, how much battery life is gained by disabling the webcam? Your post seems to suggest that it is a significant amount.
If you have the time, could you revise the portion in the guide regarding the webcam disablement, making it easier for a simpleton like myself to follow?
Thanks,
Elephant
[/quote1233453031]After further testing I have found that disabling webcam makes no difference on battery drain.
What I’ve found works is to disable Bluetooth and the USB Controller 27C9, this makes a major improvement on the dischargerate of the battery. This should not really be the case, if you do not use Bluetooth and have it disabled then it should not drain power, but it does. It seems this is an old, old bug – also reported by Microsoft but never really fixed 100%. No updates fixes this, the only way I’ve found is to do as stated above.@will2mk: I saw that I missed to answer your question about the PreMKBD in startup….
If you cannot find it then you probbly don’t have Magic Keyboard installed, this is a part of the Magic Keyboard application that makes the shortcut keys for volume and brightness etc. work.[quote1233512093=Elephant]
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Freedy: I have a question about your performance tips and tricks.I don’t quite follow your instructions on how to disable the webcam on the NC10. Also, how much battery life is gained by disabling the webcam? Your post seems to suggest that it is a significant amount.
If you have the time, could you revise the portion in the guide regarding the webcam disablement, making it easier for a simpleton like myself to follow?
Thanks,
Elephant
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(Reposted from a different thread)
Something I found made my Firefox much faster was removing Adobe Reader 9.0 and installing the Foxit Reader 3.0 freeware instead…wow, wow, wow!
Also removed my normal Adobe Acrobat and am using the free PrimoPDF instead for converting Office files to PDF format, seems leaner and faster too.
Adobe seems to have joined the bloatware community!
@Edsta
OpenOffice is gradually getting better, and you can’t really complain about the price. For a lot of people it is more than adequate, especially if all you want to do is type up the odd document and open files people send you, as OpenOffice is mostly compatible with MS Office documents. There are some things which don’t work though.Everyone seems to send me PDF documents now rather than MS Office documents (which used to happen in the past) which is nice. I prefer to use LaTeX for creating documents and Keynote (not for Windows) for presentations.
I’m curious…does Open Office have some of the same advantages that say, Firefox has over IE? Like a much smaller footprint, using less system resources, and having faster speed? Or is its appeal entirely because of the fact that it’s free?
I deleted my answer to the above as off-topic here, and reposted it in a more appropriate thread :
http://www.sammymobile.com/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?14866.postMajor update as of 9/2-09. See first post in this thread. Some things has changed and the guide should now be more easy to follow. I have only kept the things that truly makes a difference. One thing I have removed is the subject about Prefetch-files, it seems that was a longed lived XP-Myth 🙂 No need to disable that feature. The other registry tweaks do however make a difference.
Please read the guide again if you have followed it before and feel free to ask if you have any questions…I would also encourage everyone to run Microsoft’s BootVis – an excellent app for optimizing boot-time.
Happy tweaking! 🙂
really good guide/thread freddy!
I got a question, do you know how much disabling the LAN saves in power or battery life?
No, sorry – I don’t even know if it saves any power at all but because I don’t use it and it can be disabled in BIOS I did it. I will run some further test to see what difference it actually makes, if any…
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really good guide/thread freddy!I got a question, do you know how much disabling the LAN saves in power or battery life?
[/quote1234383225]Great! I will check it out. How’s it going with your Boottimes? I read your post in the XP Boot Time-thread. Please note that tweaks I’ve later found aren’t all that good I do not mention any more. One of these is the registrysettings for Prefetcher – it turned out to be a myth that changing the value for “EnablePrefetcher” would be any good and I have run further tests myself to confirm this, the value for “EnablePrefetcher” should still be 3 (at least imho 🙂 )
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I found two sites which mention LAN power saving here and here.
[/quote1234403251]After some checking I cannot see that disabling the “Internal Lan” in BIOS makes any difference, neither does it make any difference do disable the network card in Device Manager. This device has power saving features in the advanced settings so probably it powers down automatically (in contrast to the Bluetooth that doesn’t seem to power down in any way).
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really good guide/thread freddy!I got a question, do you know how much disabling the LAN saves in power or battery life?
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