I downloaded windows 7 from my school for free, but there seems to be a problem. The problem is that my battery life runs out waayyyyy sooner. From about 2-4 hours in vista to 0-1 hours in windows 7. I assume there is some compatibility problem. Any ideas to help with this problem.

That's odd... it increased mine by about a factor of one-half. Try and make sure you've downloaded the latest and greatest drivers from your laptop's manufacturer - they should hopefully have released windows 7 drivers two days ago. That could do it.

Quote: Original post by EmrldDrgn
That's odd... it increased mine by about a factor of one-half. Try and make sure you've downloaded the latest and greatest drivers from your laptop's manufacturer - they should hopefully have released windows 7 drivers two days ago. That could do it.

Yeah probably driver problem since one of the most noticeable changes from Vista to Win7 is that it uses less power.
The Windows 7 advantage is indeed significant. Note that this 17 percent decrease in power consumption is for the exact same software running unchanged on the same machine

WTF, my computer just crashed. I wasn't even doing any heavy cpu activities.
Can somebody help me, I have a toshiba A135-S4427. Is there a way to update driver online? I googled but wasn't sure.

I have a Toshiba A215, Toshiba has updated windows 7 drivers for all of the computers on their support site. Just head over there, find your model, and download the windows 7 drivers. I've been running Windows 7 on my laptop since R7100

>>I have a Toshiba A215, Toshiba has updated windows 7 drivers for all of the computers on their support site. Just head over there, find your model, and download the windows 7 drivers. I've been running Windows 7 on my laptop since R7100

I went over there but I had to buy things, so I won't buy the software. But
my friend gave me this software that detects the old driver from my computer, and
downloads a newer version. I tried it and my computer still crashes sometime,
and the battery still runs out quickly.

I went to this website :

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp?nav=Download

Moved to the Lounge.

Toshiba A135-S4427 Support Page

go to the download tab.

Windows 7 is better than Vista, but still less than epic.

I'm not so sure I like it. <dons fanboy hat>In fact, I don't actually require Windows for my day-to-day computer use anymore and I fancy an upgrade so I might buy a Mac or upgrade this POS and download a high-end Linux distro</removes fanboy hat>.

Windows 7 feels like Vista SP2 with a slightly tweaked UI, and I've been using Vista since January 2007 when Vista Business hit MSDNAA. I've yet to find anything which greatly impresses me or seems like a big step forward TBH. Mine is a MSDN Technet build as well... maybe things have changed?

In my experience, it's still a dog which gets clogged up and slows down like molasses after extensive use (even though I have sod all installed on this machine, it's still a pig). UAC is less annoying, the UI nothing above and beyond what I can get from Apple's Aqua or from the latest builds of GNOME and KDE and the whole thing feels sluggish.

Maybe your school has a special installation that adds school-related processes and services? If you mean it crashed as in it is now having problems starting up, I suggest to re-install with Vista again and make sure everything is still kosher on your machine. If it just crashed once and came back up, compare your running processes to some lists of common running Windows 7 processes online and make sure you don't have anything extra.