Nero 8.0 and vista

you might need a usb to speaker adapterhttp://www.ebay.com.au/itm/USB-2-0-MIC-Speaker-5-1-Audio-Sound-Card-Adapter-/120645945426?pt=AU_Laptop_Accessories&hash=item1c170f0852

hope this help

You need to check the specifications of your laptop it may not be able to run Windows 7.
You need these specs:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
  

• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
  

• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
  

• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
  

Well, caramelapopc, if you haven't upgraded the amount of RAM/memory in the laptop at any point, it is completely understandable that you might experience slowdowns. When Windows Vista was released, some manufacturers marketed laptops with only 1 GB of memory. This is the bare minimum for Vista to run, and as Vista got more bloated with updates and service packs, that 1GB gets pushed to it's limit. Acer was actually sued for selling laptops with only 1GB of RAM and Windows Vista because the laptops didn't meet the minimum system requirements for Vista after the video adapter had allotted say ~100MB for itself. My recommendation would be to go to www.crucial.com, look up your laptop by manufacturer and model number, and purchase more memory from them. You'll see a significant increase in smoothness, basically, it'll be back to like new again.

Minimum System Requirements
OS – Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor – 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) or 3.2 GHz or faster* (Vista)
Memory – 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card –256 MB**
Hard Drive – 12GB
Sound Card – DirectX 9.0c compatible
* Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista) or faster, Intel Core 2.0 GHz (2.2 GHz for Vista) or faster, AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or faster.
** Supported chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Integrated chipsets are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.
Recommended System Requirements
OS – Windows XP / Vista
Processor – Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Memory – 2.0 GB RAM
GPU – NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar

Hi,
These are the system requirements for Sims 3 PC version>>>>>>>
Windows XP

• Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
• 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
• 1 GB RAM
• At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
• 128 MB video card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0

Windows Vista

• Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)
• 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
• 1.5 GB RAM
• At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
• 128 MB video card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least

• Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above
• 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
• 0.5 GB additional RAM

You can download a demo version from EA Games here before you buy it >>>>>>>>





http://eastore.ea.com/store/eaemea/en_GB/ContentTheme/pbPage.sims3uk




Regards.

Could be your laptop doesn't have the necessary horsepower to run SIMS 3 (mine doesn't)
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THE SIMS 3 MINIMUM HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
FOR WINDOWS XP
* Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
* 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 1 GB RAM
* At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
* 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
FOR WINDOWS VISTA
* Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)
* 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 1.5 GB RAM
* At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
* 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:
* Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above.
* 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
* 0.5 GB additional RAM
SUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS
NVIDIA GeForce series
FX 5900, FX 5950
6200, 6500, 6600, 6800,
7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
9600, 9800, GTX 260, GTX 280
ATI Radeon™ series
9500, 9600, 9800
X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
2400, 2600, 2900
3450, 3650, 3850, 3870,
4850, 4870
Intel® Extreme Graphics
GMA X3x00 series

than it needs someone to actually look at it like geek squad

Try this...on boot up hit F8 and select SAFE MODE and see if you can get in that way. Look on the control panel for add and remove programs...eliminate Uniblue from the program list. Reboot and you just may be fortunate.
Isn't it funny that the program that is messing up your machine is the one (for money) will fix it.
I still think the best way to update drivers is right from the manufacturer (ATI , nVidia, ASUS,)or the computer company (Dell-Gateway-HP) they all have driver updates for FREE in their Support area look for Drivers and Downloads. To contact their sites try the Company name and .com
I also think if things are running along just fine...don't update until performance suffers. Like your daddy told you...if it ain't busted, don't fix it.
hope this helps...good luck my friend

you will have a very hard time finding drivers for xp. dell will not support and dell does not have drivers for xp for your system. try vista sp1. i have no problems with my 1530