I am evaluating this HP Pavilion dv5000 laptop. It seems terribly sluggish for a 1.7 GHz 64-bit laptop with 1.0 GB ram. It has an 80-GB hard drive, which shows as 75% full, even though I have removed a great number of programs through Add/Remove. It has a 12-GB Recovery Partition, which is a sizable chunk of the hard drive, percentage-wise. What stumps me is that HP has factory-installed 32-bit Win XP Media Center Edition on a Turion Mobile 64-bit laptop. That doesn't make much sense. Seems a waste. Did HP make a practice of doing this back in 2005? I like to preserve original operation of a laptop as much as possible, in case I decide to resell it, but I am still deciding if I want a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit machine. Any opinions or suggestions?
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Last edited by binsonk; 12-03-2014, 09:44 PM. -
Re: 32-bit WinXP on a 64-bit Turion Mobile?
64bit system is need if u have more than 3gb ram. it have some speed increase on x64 processors but not much -
Re: 32-bit WinXP on a 64-bit Turion Mobile?
The problem is that there was that XP 64 bit had almost no drivers available. Almost all PCs used 32 bit OSes, regardless of the CPU, until about the time windows 7 came out. It was about the first 64 bit OS to have decent driver support.I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!
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Re: 32-bit WinXP on a 64-bit Turion Mobile?
I did a destructive clean-install from Recovery Partition, and the results were very good. Much improved speed and responsiveness. The OS now occupies 30% of hard drive space. Had to remove a load of bloatware. Still considering a few programs. Pardon my naivete, but would it be a mistake to activate Wild Tangent HP Games? Should I uninstall the program? Some of the games look half-decent, but I didn't like the way Wild Tangent nagged me to sign in. Advice or opinions?Comment
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Re: 32-bit WinXP on a 64-bit Turion Mobile?
^ nuke the games. bloat out the wazoo.Things I've fixed: anything from semis to crappy Chinese $2 radios, and now an IoT Dildo....
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