Whenever I seem to get on my laptop, about ten minutes later, my laptop begins to overheat, and it freezes. I’ve had my laptop for about three years and I’ve never had this problem before. I also rarely use my laptop on soft surfaces such as the bed and the floor; it’s primarily on my desk. What are some possible causes of this occurrence? Is it just possibly dust in the fan?

Answerer #1 & #2 are both correct in that it is probably fan related - you might just need a good cleaning. In addition the newer high power processors generate a lot of heat. Even new my HP 17" pavilion put out an astonishing amount of heat although I don’t remember having any particular performance issues because of that. I finally bought an in-expensive stand (wire mesh, adjustable tilt) and the heat issue simply dissipated (sorry :-).
The raising of the computer, the ability to tilt (I use it on it’s lowest tilt), and the use of a gel pad for the heel of my hands has contributed greatly to my comfort in using my laptop.

How do I make my laptop hand-touch mouse not work and only my mouse that I plugged work ?
My laptop mouse (that works with fingers) is weird. It automatically clicks and doesn’t go where
I want to and sometimes it even bothers my usb mouse to work bad. How do I turn off the laptop mouse ?

Control panel, pointing devise/mouse, touch pad tab, adjust or disable, click apply and save.

I have the Sims 2 Double Deluxe game, and also the Sims 2 University, and I plan on purchasing more of the expansion packs. I do know there are not many laptops that can accommodate gaming. But I plan on buying a laptop just for the use of it to play Sims.
Can anyone help me?
Please??

– Also, if anyone might know how to transfer Custom Content (for the game) from one computer to another? Would I use a disk? If so, what type of disk?

The games call for a minimum amount of RAM, I believe 512MB, but to be on the safe side, I’d have at least 2048– that way your game play will be seamless and skip free. I have 3GB of RAM with a Pentium Dual Core processor, and my game speed is better than when I was running the game on an AMD Sempron processor. So yes, go with an Intel processor when you’re buying a laptop. My laptop is HP’s G71-333NR notebook PC, so it runs the games better than most would.

I’d go with the games’ basic requirements, and then add an extra 1024MB of RAM, just to make sure. My old laptop was at the bare minimum to play The Sims 2 Apartment Life, for instance, and still ran it, though rather slowly.

I’d use a USB drive, also called a "jump drive" to transfer content from one computer to another. The ones today are pretty big, and would hold a lot of files.

Hi, recently i decided to reinstall Windows Vista using the disc that came with my computer, i followed the instructions step by step and finally had it installed again, however when i start my laptop up it gives me the option to go onto this new vista (holding new account) or old vista (holding old account), this is quite annoying i only wanted to make my laptop run quicker like when i first got it.
Does anyone please no how to remove one of these Vistas?

Look on your hard drive, a folder might contain the old version of windows, if it is difficult to remove use disk clean up in maintenance.

Aren’t all laptops built with the same thing inside? Like for a basic laptop, Intel and NVDIA are in all of em.(The same versions of them) Doesn’t that mean their exactly the same (Saying the memory and specs are same) or is their another part of the laptop that makes em different?

All opinions appreciated.

I bought a Gateway and the hinge broke after a year. The insides may be the same, but the quality of the laptop itself does matter.

I want to buy a laptop and noticed that office and bussiness ones cost a lot less. Will they still work for browsing the internet, downloading music, and editing videos and stuff like that?

Business machines are usually bought in bulk and don’t have the fancies that you’d expect from a personal laptop. They all work the same for browsing since your connection type/speed controls that - regardless (usually) of the machine you log into. As long as it’s fairly new, not a 1993 version or anything like that…. you should be good to go.

If you’re buying off a re-sale site (like E-bay or something like that) just make sure that they are legit — you don’t want to end up with a hot machine!

Soon, I will be attending college (I know, it starts late). I will be commuting by train to and from school everyday. I need a backpack that I can carry my books and laptop in. It has to be well built and safe for my laptop. My laptop is a 15.6" Dell Studio. What would be a good backpack. Thanks.

Oh I just answered to similar question before two minutes.

If you are in college than I think you must not carry that bore and black general laptop bags.

Here are some laptop computer cases which can speak your style and about you as well. Searched a bit and found it … see the source for photos …

I am planning on going to college and majoring in chemical engineering. With that obviously comes the task of buying a laptop. I really enjoy Macs and I have semi-adjusted to their different programs because my brother has one. I do however cringe a little bit at the prices. But I am really just wondering what kind of specs the laptop should meet and if you prefer a Mac vs a PC (for chemical engineering).

www.dell.com
Inspiron 15

I want to reinstall windows xp on my laptop since my laptop keeps freezing and is a home to many viruses. However, i heard theres a way to reeboot it using the same or not having to enter the product key agian to activate windows.

Use the recover CDs that came with your laptop. It should recover to factory settings with the CD key you had when you bought it..

I have a 17 inch laptop and would like to use it as the external monitor for a netbook.I can use an external monitor to connect to my laptop and see the laptop desktop on the external monitor.I can not do it the other way round and see the netbook desktop on my laptop screen.

That will NEVER work. Not in a million years.

That video port on your laptop is built to SEND OUT video signals only, for connecting to monitors. It is NOT built to receive a video signal from another computer.

You CANNOT connect your netbook to your laptop in that manner.

You want to use another display with your netbook, you need to connect your netbook to a standalone monitor, not to your laptop.