Recent content by Petepc

Hi, my video graphics driver is up-to-date and W7 compliant, but the newest driver I could find for my monitor was Windows XP. Everything actually works just fine except that whenever I logon my desktop immediately reconfigures itself (just like when you manually change the screen resolution)...

Graphic Card Driver is up to date. I couldn't find a W7 driver for my Philips monitor(202P73/27), but W7 seems to have found one. First it used the generic one then at some point it must have found one for my monitor because now when I check the driver, it lists Philips by name. Another...

W7 starts up fine then goes to the logon screen. I pick a user and then it plays the logon sound and the desktop pops up. One second later, the screen goes blank and the desktop reappears and everything is fine. You know how when you change your resolution, the screen will sometimes flick...

Thanks guys. I decided to just make the partition 70Gb. I think it's overkill, but I'll still have enough room on the HD to do what I want. I've got a new problem though. When I use the setup DVD to format the drive it only lets me to one partition. I go forward and install W7 normally...

correction: I have 4GB of sys mem, not 3.5. My HD is 400 GB. That was plenty for me when I was on XP. For XP (x86), I gave the OS partition 22GB but it rarely filled more than 7-8 Gbs. I try to put as much non-os data as I can on other partitions. I do this because I like to occasionally...

I have recently installed W7 Pro 64-bit but I'm still playing around with it. I understand that M$ recommends 20 GB for x64. I would like to give it a generous amount of room to work, but I don't want to go overboard. I have 3.5 GB of system memory but plan to upgrade to up to 4 or 6, so I...