10 Responses to Challenge Accepted Series

1. Sir_dudeisis says:

   December 11, 2012 at 9:55 am

   Improving GMA 3150. So i found this nifty trick on the net and after completing, windows said my graphics performance increased from 2.9 to 3.1

   right click desktop background
   select graphic properties
   select 3D settings change values to this order

   Asynch – ON
   Triple buffering – OFF
   flipping policy – Flip
   defasult buffer bit – Default
   force S3TC – ON
   Force FXT1 – ON
   Driver Memory – High
   Texture color depth – desktop color
   Anisotropic – OFF

   for texture color and default buffer bit you can change to 16bit but, 32 bit apps will not work.

   thanks a bunch for the resoloution availibility netbookist

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2. Sir_dudeisis says:

   December 11, 2012 at 10:07 am

   Another time old tweak of windows, use the task manager

   after opening game, preferably with gamebooster eliminating all unnessacary processes
   press ctrl+alt+del
   select processes at top of window
   right click on game or app you are using
   highlight set priority
   i set priority to high because realtime makes sounds glitchy
   then right click tskmgr.exe and select end process
   if game screen does not pop up after closing task manager, press alt+tab to reveal game.
   enjoy!

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3. matt says:

   February 7, 2013 at 1:33 am

   here is a challenge, (requires the most recent version of ubuntu and an acer aspire one netbook d270-1492) make the brightness change

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   • k says:

     February 15, 2013 at 8:58 pm

     Try PCLinuxOS, works very well with my toshiba nb305.

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     • matt says:

       February 23, 2013 at 2:42 am

       Can’t. This is a school netbook that has to remain with the non-netbook (aka desktop formated) version of ubuntu, despite the fact that Windows 7 starter was PRE-INSTALLED. I have stick with this netbook, until after my senior year where i can buy it for a dollar.

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       • Anonymous says:

         June 26, 2013 at 11:26 am

         Lol, there is a command in the terminal that turns the backlight back on, if that is your problem. I know that the backlight is glitched, as i have the same computer (gateway lt4008u is the same as aspire one) and i needed to do the same thing. Im back on windows now, just try a clean install, and tell the school it was hacked and thats all you could do (if they ever find out)

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4. Syafiq says:

   March 14, 2013 at 11:18 pm

   1 Malaysian Netbook.. they have a setting that hide netbook clock generator code.. i guess

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5. Jack says:

   August 19, 2013 at 1:52 am

   Hahaha, I very like this site because I am still netbook user really want a tips to tweak my netbook :D.

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6. Matt says:

   October 7, 2013 at 11:37 pm

   I am having all sorts of problems and oddities now. My battery life went from 7 hours to 4 and a half. As I said that I can’t get the brightness to change but I found out that my best friend IS able to change the brightness and he has the same netbook and operating system.
   On Youtube my netbook that can’t run 1080p or 720p which is not surprising, but what what confuses me is that my netbook can’t run 144p or 240 without it freezing. It seems to play videos fine when set to 360p and 480p fine.
   When I minimize a window I see … well, I don’t how else to explain it other than an imprint left on the screen.
   The Ubuntu keyring thing is really annoying me with it constantly popping up and offering to save my passwords.

   Can anyone explain to me why all this stuff is happening?

   Also could someone send me a link for a netbook formatted Windows 7 starter because I am fed up with Ubuntu?

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7. netbooksrule says:

   January 12, 2014 at 8:11 am

   Here’s some tweaks.

   Create a Volume Shadow Copy on your c:\ just in case something happens

   First, create a batch file that points to a game’s executable, eg. “C:\Program Files\netbooksrule\game.exe” save it, convert it to an exe, rename it to sethc.exe, put it in C:\windows\System32, logoff, hit shift 5 times, the game will run with barely anything else on. Forget GameBooster =) Although the only downside is that you cant activate Task Manager when the game freezes.

   Another tweak is to run MSCONFIG, then select Diagnostic Mode. After a restart open services.msc, then set these services to Automatic
   Network Connections
   Network List Services
   Network Location Awareness
   Network Store Interface
   CNG Key Isolation
   DHCP Client (highly recommend)
   Extensible Authentication Protocol
   User Profile Service
   Group Policy Service
   Software Protection
   Plug & Play
   Power
   Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
   RPC Endpoint Mapper
   WLAN AutoConfig (if you use WiFi)
   WWAN AutoConfig (if you use mobile broadband)
   Wired AutoConfig (if you use Ethernet)
   Windows Management Instrumentation, optional

   .. and for sound

   Windows Audio
   Windows Audio Endpoint
   Multimedia Class Scheduler

   Will give you more free memory to use on 1GB systems =)

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