Hp Pavilion dv4

A friend recently approached me to look for a used laptop with a budget in mind. Guest what , I managed to get one and this model was Hp Pavilion dv4-1167Tx. When the unit arrived , I was thinking this is a high performance machine and bundle with lots of stuff from Hp. It did stuffed with lots of thing inside … with some noisy sound when the machine was running.

After some inspection , I found that the system fan was too dirty and need some cleaning. The easiest way to do that without dismantle the machine is to use a vacuum cleaner and suck all the dust from the breathing hole or duct ( what ever you name it ). Amazingly after the vacuum session , the sound was gone. Now the machine start running quietly, no more sound pollution. Somehow the performance of the machine at this moment is far below expectation. It was so slow that even it take too long to load a single program and the taskbar is full of shortcut icon, not to mention the desktop. There are at least 30 over icons on the desktop and for me this is a bullshit.

Guys…. doesn’t mean that it was named shortcut , then you need or wish to put all those program shortcut on the desktop. Unless you upgrade your machine with extra memory RAM, if not all this will only slow down your machine. This Hp Pavilion dv4 was stuffed with 4Gb of memory RAM and what a waste of that , with that kind of performance in hand. Plus…. Windows Vista Home Premium as the operating system.

I finally made up my mind to restore the machine back to it’s factory default value. But I was thinking Hp must be putting a lot of software into the machine , so that if someone buy their products, the buyer don’t need to add anymore software for daily computing task. I started my work restoring the machine back to it’s default state. While waiting for the process to run , what else if not to grab a coffee.

Time past by, and the machine was at it’s default state. I still fell that there’s a lot of unneeded program and software inside provided by Hp. Anyway just forget about it now. After windows update , I try the machine again for some simple computing stuff like surfing internet and playing some multimedia file. Too bad the performance still below my expectation. Now the major concern here is, I can’t give it to my friend with this performance condition. Hell sure get screw and kick by him.

I wonder what’s the main factor that caused all this? Windows Vista had some bad track records in terms of performance compared to some other operating system, plus a Hp was installing way too much software for this machine, I guessed . Finally I made up my mind. Put in Windows 7 into it and strip off most if not all the Hp software and see how’s thing work.

Sigh……. I have to start all over again for the installation of operating system… While waiting I fall asleep and the journey end here …. When I woke up the next morning, the machine was ready with Windows 7. Now is time to do the windows update and all the basic programs installation. If you need to download the driver for this machine you can download it here.

Once all done, I try the performance of the machine again. This time I was satisfied and happy with it. So the machine is ready for delivery. Do some disk cloning using Ghost to prevent hard disk failure in future and clean up the machine .

Below are some of the specification of the machine:-