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The laptop was built with a fair amount of customization. I believe the foundations are a Toshiba machine, though I am not completely sure. Even if it does have ASUS components, though, I am not...

When booting into safe mode, the startup process still hangs. There's no difference (except that it doesn't display the animated "Starting Windows" screen).

I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on a laptop today, a clean install, and since the first boot up, it has been hanging at the "Starting Windows" screen for about 10 minutes every time. Eventually...

Thank you all for your answers. The choice has been made.

Alienware was considered, but it seems a little too high-end and pricey. Also, shipping to the Netherlands would probably be costly.

Will no one answer my questions about Quad Cores?

photolady,

I am aware that laptops are not ideal for gaming. However, a desktop computer is currently not an option. The laptop won't need to be under maximum stress all day long, it won't be...

I Googled them, I could only find quite positive reviews about their machines. The laptops I described come with two-year guarantees.

You're welcome to suggest a manufacturer or a specific model,...

BTO, an independent Dutch manufacturer. Why?

My girlfriend wants to buy a new laptop and she wants one on which she can play video games. Her current one is getting a little old and has an integrated chipset for a video card, so it won't run...

Alright. Thanks for all the help you were able to give me, though. I'm glad I can't boil water with my CPU anymore.

Ah I misunderstood, sorry.

I don't intend to use the stress test very often, but when I do something CPU-intensive, the temperature still rises significantly. I tried running a fairly heavy video...

I use it for pretty much everything. From writing up schoolwork and browsing the internet to playing video games and running fairly intensive mathematical algorithms. The laptop is a Fujitsu Siemens...

I've cleaned up the fan with 96% alcohol and compressed air, like you suggested. After half an hour of stressing the CPU, I found the temperature stable at 75C. That's much better than 98C, but I...

The dust on the fan itself is enough? I underestimated the powers of dust. I didn't think a dusty fan would be fatal, I thought I would be looking for big clots of dust on the CPU. Thanks for all...

I couldn't help myself. I had a look at my laptop's underside and on the specific area I was looking at, it didn't say anything about not removing the panel, so I unscrewed it and opened it up. I...

The external cooler blows air upwards against the bottom of the laptop. The laptop fan sucks in air from the bottom and blows it out the back. The fans of the cooler and the internal fan aren't...

I see. I meant to be talking in centigrades, but perhaps we misunderstood each other. I'm going to have to look into this. I bought this laptop through my university and I can have it checked out...

I think you're mistaken. Right now, posting this, my CPU is under light load and it's at 55C. If I even start up a program, it goes straight to 70C. When my laptop started overheating the first time,...

When I first got my laptop during the warmer months of the year, I had some trouble with the laptop overheating when the day was really warm. I bought an external cooler and I figured it worked,...

I have a laptop here, a Toshiba Satellite P300-17R, that refuses to stay shut down while the ethernet cable is plugged in. I checked the BIOS for the Wake-on-LAN setting, which was enabled, but...

I apologize for the double post. I feel this warrants a new post rather than an edit.

First off I have to rectify something. I said that when changing settings, the dialogs acted normally and gave...

Yes, that's possible. I thought that the process was done because the graphic representation of my hard drive changed, but I suppose that could have been a preview. I never even thought to look for...

Thanks. That seems like a useful collection. I found out that the partition had in fact not been resized, I don't know why, and that Windows was displaying the correct size. I was able to resize the...

When I try to change the theme, I get an error saying the theme can't be loaded and it gives a path to the theme (WINDOWS\Resources\Themes). The file is actually there. For the most part, however, it...

My computer is set up to have a Documents folder on the D:\ drive that contains all user profiles. Today I resized and formatted my D:\ drive. I made a backup, but only of the My Documents folder, I...