I just bought an acer netbook with windows 7 home to replace one that had xp but got destroyed by a virus. This new one is pathetic. Extremely slow-media player it comes with can't open mp4 videos-can't seem to manage to run realplayer. etc
Anyway, I'm thinking of buying another xp OS and replacing windows 7 with that, as it was perfect on my other netbook.
Are there likely to be problems from doing this? (other than almost doubling the cost of the netbook)
Sorry for a late reply.
No, no problems. Many people "downgrade" to XP. Also, I would ditch Real, etc, and use something like VLC for all the media. I have an Acer netbook (several of them, actually) and this setup works fine.
Other things you can do are: go into MSCONFIG and disable any startup processes you don't need; install the max 2GB RAM. With these steps, you may be fine with Win7. My netbooks are - though I must admit, XP flies on those little machines.
NOW-with this laptop..of course the keyes are closer together than on my old PC but sometimes when I'm typing the backspace key..wipes out everything and I loose an entire post the WHOLE page. HOW can I stop this? I googled it an others had the same complaint but I found no clear cut answer other than buying some outside software and I did not understand all that. Other keys sometimes have functions like the arrow keyes sometimes scroll up and down other times they bring up drop down menus, the Shift keys do silly things sometimes as well, like jumping back 6-8 lines causing me to insert text (looks like I never learned to spell or type) in places I never mean to.
This sounds like a
focus problem. In the browser, when the focus is in a text box, the backspace key acts as it does in a word processor. But when the focus is on the web page, it acts as a navigator. The trick is that hitting the Tab key will take you out of the text box and onto the next page element (which often is the Post control button - you'll see it highlighted if you experiment). So make sure you're not hitting the Tab key inadvertently, or hitting the touchpad as you type. If it's a touchpad problem, a little free utility called TouchFreeze will solve the problem. The more I think about it, the more I suspect the touchpad.
There also are browsers, and extensions for browsers, that will remember the text you typed if you accidentally navigate away. For instance, I just tried it here, in Opera, and when I came back the text was there waiting for me.
Let me say this once, and then duck for cover: IE is not the only browser in the world. It is not synonymous with surfing the Web. IMO, it's about the worst major browser out there.
Also, there is a Fn key on the laptop keyboard that shifts many of the keys to alternate functions, which you will see on the keys in a different, lighter color. Make sure you're not hitting that one inadvertently either.
