Speeding up Vista - Removing "Calculating feature"

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Geoff from LA

I'm trying every way possible to speed up Vista to at least meet what XP did.

one really annoying feature is the file transfer "calculation". Where it
tries to figure out how long it will take to copy before it starts copying.
Is there any way to disable this? By the time the calculator is done the file
would be already moved.

I was really hoping that when I selected to buy Vista "Business" edition, I
would have a software designed for work, not home newbie users.

Am I missing a "Performance theme" setting somewhere?

Thanks for any help!

- Geoff Erwin
 
I found one setting that may speed things up (correct me if I'm wrong), I
just can't figure out how to completely disable it.

Anyone know how to disable the Data Execution Prevention (DEP) option? I
only see an option to disable it for individual programs, I want it gone from
everything.

- Geoff
 
The DEP is a security bit program and should not effect any download speed.
But you can turn it off usually through your BIOS settings.
 
You can try this link from my website:
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/disable_data_execution_prevention.htm but I'm
not saying it will speed thing up.

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Hi,

So you want malware to be able to execute from protected memory storage?
Disabling DEP will have exactly -0- effect on speeding things up. Running
Vista on the same hardware as you ran XP on, I would expect it to be slower.
There's more resource overhead, higher memory requirements, etc.

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one really annoying feature is the file transfer "calculation". Where it
tries to figure out how long it will take to copy before it starts
copying.
Is there any way to disable this? By the time the calculator is done the
file
would be already moved.
Click to expand...

There's already been a patch for this issued through the normal updates
process, but plenty of people say it doesn't help.

Apparently SP1 will make another attempt at fixing it.

I agree that there should be a simple way of switching the calculation off,
but there doesn't seem to be.

SteveT
 
Anyone know how to disable the Data Execution Prevention (DEP) option? I
only see an option to disable it for individual programs, I want it gone
from
everything.
Click to expand...

You really don't want to do this. DEP addresses a fundamental flaw in the
von Neumann architecture used in all PC processors. DEP closes off a big
security hole.

It should make no difference at all to the execution speed.

SteveT
 
In message <#[email protected]> "Steve Thackery"
I agree that there should be a simple way of switching the calculation off,
but there doesn't seem to be.
Click to expand...

There doesn't actually appear to be any delay, at least based on
watching the drive lights, Resource Monitor, or the remote system when
copying over a network, the copy starts immediately, the
"Calculating..." phase doesn't actually slow down the start of copying.

I'm not suggesting that copy / move speeds are acceptable, just that the
calculating phase isn't actually the problem.
 
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