Tag: Laptop

A Case of Laptop Boots Failed with 0xc0000001 Error Code

There are different cases we get the Error code 0xc0000001, which normally are related hard disk errors.  But, this kinds of disk error could be fixed using some solutions unless you get very critical error.

We got a failure which was from our laptop booting once time with the error code 0xc0000001, after multiple tries which the Windows system prompted. We finally resolved the issue WITHOUT format our computer or re-install Windows system. The following is our handling process. It could be one of your information if you get the same issue with same error code.

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No Space to Add a SSD in Dell Inspiron 15 i15547-5033sLV SE Laptop

We have a Dell laptop which was bought from Microsoft Store, the model is

Dell Inspiron 15 i15547-5033sLV Signature Edition Laptop.

It was a nice laptop at the on sale price at $399.99 CAD in 2014. We have used it for over 1 years by now. However, we are not happy with its hard driver IO speed, sometimes we found the software loading very slow.

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Windows Laptop: No Speaker Sound After Connect to External Monitor using HDMI ?

(Updated in March 03, 2016) Sometimes we get issues on computer speaker sound, the one case is when you connect the laptop to an external HDMI monitor.

The main content below was written in Jan 20. 1990;

The last time we talked about how laptop connects an external monitor using HDMI and without lip keeping on open.  However, you might find you could not listen to music through the laptop speaker after you connected.

Why does the Speak not Work after Connecting to external Monitor ?

The reason is that if you connect the laptop to external monitor using a DHMI cable, Windows (at least in Windows 8.1) system will set the sound playback device to the external monitor by default since it found the HDMI cable which suppose both of Video and Audio should be transferred,  Windows see the external monitor as the main audio device.

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How to Disable Laptop Touchpad When USB Mouse Present

When we use laptop with an external USB mouse connecting, the touchpad of laptop is enabled by default. During your typing the touchpad might break your works because your motions of fingers might cause the touchpad affecting or because of your fingers touching the touchpad causes messing your inputting.

So we want to disable the laptop touchpad when we have an external USB mouse present since we do not need the touchpad to work.

We have an article Disable Dell Studio Laptop Touchpad on Windows 7 previously. Today we are going to show how to set on Windows 10.

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How to Avoid Laptop Go to Sleep When Close Lip on Windows 10 / 8.1 / 8 / 7

Sometimes we need our Windows 10 laptop (Including 8.1/8/7) to keep working even we closed its lip. Almost all laptops set going to sleep when the laptop lips are closed by default, most of tablets are doing same way.

The main reason is for power saving, also Windows system set a sleep mode to save other resources which are related laptop hardware.

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Add SSD As Second Hard Driver on Dell Studio 1535 Part 2

We have the series of articles about Adding an internal SSD driver as second hard driver on Dell Studio laptop. You might be strange that why you could not find out all of them by searching, because we have finished the part 1, part 3 and Part 4 but not part 2 since part 2 will be longer and will come with more pictures. We were looking for spare time until we got in the holiday.

Yes, this article is just the part 2. The following is the total series of articles:

1: Add SSD As Second Hard Driver on Dell Studio 1535 Part 1;
2: Add SSD As Second Hard Driver on Dell Studio 1535 Part 2;
3: Add SSD As Second Hard Driver on Dell Studio 1535 Part 3;
4: Add SSD As Second Hard Driver on Laptop and Install Windows 7 to Boot System;

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Add SSD As Second Hard Driver on Dell Studio 1535 Part 1

(Updated on April 2016) We have an old Dell Studio 1535 which is still working well. But we want to add an extra hard driver on it, the best solution is adding a SSD (Solid State Drive) driver and install boot system on it so that the laptop can boot faster.

There is not a reserved 2nd hard driver space in Dell Studio 1535 (but seems other Dell models like Studio 17 Serials 1745, 1747, 1749… have the reserved space), so we have to find other ways to install extra hard driver on Studio 1535.

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Nothing But the Web: Google Chromebooks Released Today

You can buy Google Chromebook (laptop) from store directly today because Samsung Chromebook released today.

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By now , seems you have to buy from BestBuy and Amazon USA.

From Amazon:

1: Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook (Titan Silvr) $499.99

2: Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook (Titan Silver) $499.99

3: Samsung Series 5 Wi-Fi Chromebook (Titan Silver) $429.99

4: Samsung Series 5 Wi-Fi Chromebook (Arctic White) $429.99

5: Acer AC700 Chromebook (3G) $429.99

6: Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook (Arctic White) $499.99

 

Which laptop is the best ?

It is Christmas Holiday and Boxing day or Boxing week, lots of people want to buy a new laptop. But do you know which is the best ? Thinkpad ? Dell ? HP ? Apple ?

Here we found a site to gives some compare information , the following is the one data showing of their study data:

If you want to read more, please check their site

Find windows xp drivers for your Dell Laptop

The main purpose of this post is to update the outdated content for a old post .

If your dell laptop is still using Vista, you might want to downgrade the operating system to Windows XP.

I posted a list of Windows XP drivers for Dell Studio Laptop 1535. But most of download links in that post have been broken since the post is too old. Today I will find new downloading places.

New downloading links:

First and Best choose: From Dell Official site :

1: Drivers & Downloads for Studio Laptop 1555
You can download most of drivers due to your Operating System selection.

However, you can not find Windows XP drivers fro Studio laptop 1535 from the official site. Then you have to find other places.

Before I find some links by myself, I like to introduce some other websites which has posted working links:

1: Get Pc Memory: Download Dell Studio 1535 Windows XP Drivers

2: A Chinese site: http://driver.zol.com.cn/list.php?keyword=dell+1535&channelid=&x=0&y=0