Right-click the Catalyst icon in the system tray, select advanced graphics options. Go to Power Options, and untick the option to automatically change the graphics card settings according to power supply type. This should solve your problem

These applied for me, so your mileage may vary:

1) In order:
- Make backup discs
- Turn off Active Keys so that my F12 doesn't turn off my wireless connection unless I press Fn+F12
- Split up the hard drive into a Windows partition, a programs partition and a data partition
- Defrag the new partitions
- Install antivirus, firewall and other important utilities (7zip, PDF printer, video codecs and player, etc...)
- Set up wireless, connect to Internet, and register the system with HP
- Update Windows all the way. This will take a full day, I find.
- Make backup image of hard drive so that I can recover it quickly to a usable state before I start using it
- ???
- Profit

2) Yes, but it's pointless to do so IMHO as HP has put very little bloatware on the notebook, and most of the apps they have put in are actually useful or vital to full control of the computer.

3) Uninstall, then use CCleaner. Closest you can get.

4) Sure, but why would you want to do that? That's what the backup discs you make are for. It's better to set up your computer the way you want it to be set up first (without non-essential programs or games), update Windows and then back up the hard drive after that. That way, you have an image that you can immediately use rather than spend a whole day setting up the computer again if a virus hits you. Lesson I learned the hard way.

You can. My preference for keeping Windows on its own partition is so that I don't have to worry about running out of swap space and making restoring Windows in the event of viruses/crashes faster (programs not affected). You can keep it together if you like; it's purely preference.




Buy some lol. </yaoming>

The HP backup media creator will not allow you to do that and I don't recommend that you skip making actual discs.

The HP backup media creator will require 3 DVD+/-Rs. I didn't try using a BD-disc because I don't have a BD burner (dv6-6001tx).

The initial updating should trigger manually, but Windows Update has this bad habit of not running when you expect it to. The update process from stock will involve a few restarts, so I would start Windows Update manually after every restart while you are updating.

The HP updater will run automatically, but again I recommend starting it manually once in a while.