vista performance

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hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I do a lot
of video converting and file copying(from a external hard drive)also
unzipping rar files, my question is will disabling as much of the vista "eye
candy"as possible make much difference to the speed of these tasks.i am aware
that file conversion is heavy on recsoureses and much will depend on my
laptops specs,i am running vista hp sp1 2gb ram dual core 1.6 processor.I
dont have any complaints about vista and generally it does a good job but can
be a bit sluggish when i am using a lot of rescoureses especialy copy and
paste every thing just about locks up then and it will take anything from
1mins to 1hour to copy a 700mb file depending on the weather while i am
writing this i am unpacking afile that is listed as 15gb in its propertiesand
at the moment it is at 82% after 33mins does this sound about right? any
advice will be appreciated
 
hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I do a lot
of video converting and file copying(from a external hard drive)also
unzipping rar files, my question is will disabling as much of the vista "eye
candy"as possible make much difference to the speed of these tasks.
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I should help a lot. Can't hurt anything to try, right?

You could also add another 2G of RAM if your OS is 32-bit, more if
it's 64-bit.
 
hi,thanks for the quick resonse,i am disabling alot of stuff i dont really
need running. i dont think i can add any more ram as my laptop specs say it
is 2gb max ,any idea why that is,i bought it as 1gb and quickly put the other
gb in after a month of using it so i will turn off anything i dont need and
see how much difference it makes ,thanks
 
thanks joe i will read up on those links and let you know
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martyb


.Joe said:
marty;862792 said:
hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I do a
lot
of video converting and file copying(from a external hard drive)also
unzipping rar files, my question is will disabling as much of the vista
"eye
candy"as possible make much difference to the speed of these tasks.i am
aware
that file conversion is heavy on recsoureses and much will depend on my
laptops specs,i am running vista hp sp1 2gb ram dual core 1.6
processor.I
dont have any complaints about vista and generally it does a good job
but can
be a bit sluggish when i am using a lot of rescoureses especialy copy
and
paste every thing just about locks up then and it will take anything
from
1mins to 1hour to copy a 700mb file depending on the weather while i am
writing this i am unpacking afile that is listed as 15gb in its
propertiesand
at the moment it is at 82% after 33mins does this sound about right?
any
advice will be appreciated
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Marty,

This tutorial on our website may help you:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81176-speed-up-performance-vista.html

Let us know how that works for you.


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.Joe

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Hello Marty,

In addition to Joe's post, you could really see some improvement by
adding more RAM. For what you are doing the more the better, but you
should have at least 4 GB.
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Let me make three comments on those two sentences of yours:

1. He talks about video converting and that suggests that more than
2GB will give him a performance improvement, but I would be very
reluctant to say it for sure. "You could really see some improvement"
is a very strong statement that may or may not be right. Although some
people will see better performance with more than 2GBm it is *not*
true that everyone will. "The more the better" is only true up to a
point, and for most people, that point is 2GB.

2. You say "at least 4GB," but that doesn't take into consideration
that he needs 64-bit Windows to be able to use more than 4GB. The
32-bit version (which is what most people have) won't see more than
that.

3. All 32-bit client versions of Windows (not just Vista/XP) have a
4GB address space. That's the theoretical upper limit beyond which you
can not go.

But you can't use the entire 4GB of address space. Even though you
have a 4GB address space, you can only use *around* 3.1GB of RAM.
That's because some of that space is used by hardware and is not
available to the operating system and applications. The amount you can
use varies, depending on what hardware you have installed, but can
range from as little as 2GB to as much as 3.5GB. It's usually around
3.1GB.

Note that the hardware is using the address *space*, not the actual
RAM itself. The rest of the RAM goes unused because there is no
address space to map it too.
 
thanks brink, i am reading your articles now on increasing hd perfomance
including ext hd my settings were wrong as suggested in your article i have
set them to high perfomance and enabled write caching (havnt restarted yet as
i am going to continue to read the article first) i will post back to let you
all know what difference it made
 
If the external hard drive is USB it could be part of the problem. Some
chipsets generate a lot of interrupts and can use quite a bit of CPU time
during sustained USB operations. I don't think turning off the eye candy
will gain you much if you are not doing anything else during the file
copies. If you are opening, moving, closing windows etc. you may see a
slight benefit if the laptop has onboard graphics. My advice would be to try
some timed experiments and see what happens.
 
Stop giving out your stupid advice here.

Paul Montgomery said:
I should help a lot. Can't hurt anything to try, right?

You could also add another 2G of RAM if your OS is 32-bit, more if
it's 64-bit.
Click to expand...
 
hi,thanks for the quick resonse,i am disabling alot of stuff i dont really
need running. i dont think i can add any more ram as my laptop specs say it
is 2gb max ,any idea why that is,i bought it as 1gb and quickly put the other
gb in after a month of using it so i will turn off anything i dont need and
see how much difference it makes ,thanks
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Turn off all the services you don't need:

http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm

There even is a utility to do that so that you can more easily undo
your changes.
 
Stop giving out your stupid advice here.

"Paul Montgomery" wrote:
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Save the spoofing for someone who doesn't know the difference.

Don't stop - I'm glad you're doing it - just don't waste your time
using it on me.
 
Non said:
Ubuntu is good, but not good enough...

Vista is just plain bad, its best possibility is just to merely endure
it and hope for a better wnidows7

XP outperforms Vista on all tasks, is cleaner, better designed, more
compatible, and more ergonomic than vista
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Who are you responding to? It's certainly not me. :-P I have seen your
many posts not reading the content of them. But I have seen your many
posts. I wouldn't engage you about anything.
 
Non Sequitur! said:
Ubuntu as an operating system far
surpasses XP or Vista, its only drawback is the lack of applications that
have been ported to it and drivers.
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So basically Ubuntu is a great OS with no user apps ported over to it?
Gee wiz..sign me up right away!!!!
 
Non Sequitur! said:
it has lots of apps just not the ones I use, like corel or photoshop
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Paul said:
<http://www.hyphenologist.co.uk/killfile/anti_troll_faq.htm>

Subject: 4.5 Personal attacks on individuals and groups.

Selected individuals are subjected to quite vicious
personal attacks throughout usenet. Examples are: "X#$
X#$!" "is a X$#" "is a X$#!" "is a
X$x" "in X$#" "is
a X$X" "is a X#$" "is a V$X just
like X$#" "X#$"
"Sexually harassed by" "X#$" "X#$
PARTY" "X$#" "hated
wherever he goes!" "X#$

As will be seen several of these are libelous, and
thus illegal

Groups such as the regular posters are attacked similarly,

------------------------------

Subject: 4.6 Forgeries

They regularly forge the identities of posters who they do
not like. This can vary from badly spelled versions of
their name and/or email address, to forgeries which the
average reader would not be able to detect.

At times this can reach a bizarre condition where they
troll using a forged identity at a Breidbart Index of well
over 20. They then at every opportunity call the victim a
troll.

Larting the offender is often effective because ISPs recognise
the seriousness of this offence.

Where Forgery is done via an anonymous remailer complaints
to abuse@thelastremailerinthechain may well be effective.
The remailers administrators do not like their facilities
being misused, and have ways of combatting this. It is
also worth registering with
http://www.paracrypt.com/remailerabuse/
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Paul said:
<http://www.hyphenologist.co.uk/killfile/anti_troll_faq.htm>

Subject: 4.5 Personal attacks on individuals and groups.

Selected individuals are subjected to quite vicious
personal attacks throughout usenet. Examples are: "X#$
X#$!" "is a X$#" "is a X$#!" "is a
X$x" "in X$#" "is
a X$X" "is a X#$" "is a V$X just
like X$#" "X#$"
"Sexually harassed by" "X#$" "X#$
PARTY" "X$#" "hated
wherever he goes!" "X#$

As will be seen several of these are libelous, and
thus illegal

Groups such as the regular posters are attacked similarly,

------------------------------

Subject: 4.6 Forgeries

They regularly forge the identities of posters who they do
not like. This can vary from badly spelled versions of
their name and/or email address, to forgeries which the
average reader would not be able to detect.

At times this can reach a bizarre condition where they
troll using a forged identity at a Breidbart Index of well
over 20. They then at every opportunity call the victim a
troll.

Larting the offender is often effective because ISPs recognise
the seriousness of this offence.

Where Forgery is done via an anonymous remailer complaints
to abuse@thelastremailerinthechain may well be effective.
The remailers administrators do not like their facilities
being misused, and have ways of combatting this. It is
also worth registering with
http://www.paracrypt.com/remailerabuse/
Click to expand...
 
Paul said:
<http://www.hyphenologist.co.uk/killfile/anti_troll_faq.htm>

Subject: 4.5 Personal attacks on individuals and groups.

Selected individuals are subjected to quite vicious
personal attacks throughout usenet. Examples are: "X#$
X#$!" "is a X$#" "is a X$#!" "is a
X$x" "in X$#" "is
a X$X" "is a X#$" "is a V$X just
like X$#" "X#$"
"Sexually harassed by" "X#$" "X#$
PARTY" "X$#" "hated
wherever he goes!" "X#$

As will be seen several of these are libelous, and
thus illegal

Groups such as the regular posters are attacked similarly,

------------------------------

Subject: 4.6 Forgeries

They regularly forge the identities of posters who they do
not like. This can vary from badly spelled versions of
their name and/or email address, to forgeries which the
average reader would not be able to detect.

At times this can reach a bizarre condition where they
troll using a forged identity at a Breidbart Index of well
over 20. They then at every opportunity call the victim a
troll.

Larting the offender is often effective because ISPs recognise
the seriousness of this offence.

Where Forgery is done via an anonymous remailer complaints
to abuse@thelastremailerinthechain may well be effective.
The remailers administrators do not like their facilities
being misused, and have ways of combatting this. It is
also worth registering with
http://www.paracrypt.com/remailerabuse/
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hi thanks to all those who replied to my post,using the links sent by joe
which pointed to help topics by brink i have made a good improvement to the
performance of my laptop most helpfull was the topic on registry defrag which
has improved my performance 21% also configuring my hard drives for optimal
performance has helped ,i have also disabled all unused software and as many
services as i dare.Basically i have configured my laptop to my own personal
needs not the "please everyone all the time"way it is shipped to the user
..Thanks again to everyone who offered advice especially brink who has taken
the time to wright his help topics for the benefit of home users
 
hi thanks to all those who replied to my post,using the links sent by joe
which pointed to help topics by brink i have made a good improvement to the
performance of my laptop most helpfull was the topic on registry defrag which
has improved my performance 21% also configuring my hard drives for optimal
performance has helped ,i have also disabled all unused software and as many
services as i dare.Basically i have configured my laptop to my own personal
needs not the "please everyone all the time"way it is shipped to the user
.Thanks again to everyone who offered advice especially brink who has taken
the time to wright his help topics for the benefit of home users
Click to expand...


Glad to hear you've made an improvement. I'll just add one point:
disabling unused software can not help your performance in any way.
The only software that can affect your performance is the software
that is *running*.
 
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