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Originally Posted by GakunGak
Hi johnno74, nice of you to drop by... 
A litle details, 1 GB of RAM, resolution 1152*864, and it's true when I alt+tab or exit a fullscreen game, my, icons need to be redrawn and wallpaper is black until is remapped again...... My wallpaper is 175KB in size, and i'm good with it...
Everything you said is true...  I was testing my baby under stress and it handled itself very well...
Since you are an IT, could you solve a litle problem of mine?
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-12546_10...sageID=2492240
Take a look and e-mail me at dj-gagi@cg.yu...
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Hi there GakunGak,
Although your wallpaper is 175kb, that will be for the original jpeg. Under the hood the wallaper must be converted to a BMP file, same resolution of your screen - the size of the original file doesn't matter.
Save your wallpaper as a BMP file at that resolution, it will be about 4mb.
As to your vista install problem, sorry I can't be of more help. I've never trusted OS upgrades, I always do a clean install - I've always had issues with junk left over from the previous version. That said tho, I've heard vista's upgrade is the best yet. But I still wouldn't trust it
One thing you could try is use partition magic (I see you've got it) to create another partition on your hard drive, and then copy all of your important stuff (like your SH3 installation
) there, then install vista from scratch and format the main windows partition during the install. Note - Be VERY careful you pick the right partition. Back up critical stuff like emails and photos, incase it all goes bad.
I'm using vista that came pre-installed on this Dell latitude d820.... So unfortunately I've never even done a vista install!
If you want to persist with the upgrade you could try un-installing the apps it is complaining about before you upgrade - the SATA drivers are a problem tho, as without those XP won't work... but vista shouldn't have a problem with those anyway.
But definitely try un-installing Cyberlink DVD player, and partition magic first, see if that helps.