I've just started to use readyboost by pushing a 4GB usb stick into the port and configuring it to 'Improve system performance'. I can see its little light flashing, so I assume it is working. Is there anyway of measuring how much it is improving (or not) system performance. I have 2 Gb ram.
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"I think the most disappointing thing for me is that part of me wants to like Vista, because there are a lot of interesting APIs and kernel features that really do improve system performance and make it easier to write for Windows" Many of them even work on older computers, and I doubt these features are why Vista is bloated. That is why I suggested trimming down Vista once.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi am about to tell you about what happend to vista on monday and a few other things. on monday windows vista ultimate was working fine i had to shut my computer down because i went to the gym then when i got back i turned on my pc then it went through its usual loading then right about when vista was about to startup after the cursor appeared then i waited and it did not boot up and it stayed at a black screen so i tried using last know good configuration on my pc booted up good then i logged in and just as the log on screen faded out then it locked up then i tried it again then the windows vista splash thing came on then i hear one note of the tune reapeating and the only thing i could do is restore from my backup so i did that and now my computer is back at last backup i did.
then i was using it yesterday my computer was working fine on vista and window vista starts getting choppy with me like its not being smooth and im trying to figure out why im not getting smooth performance plus vista did lock up when i shutted it down vista did not lock up on me on before the booting up issue occured
is there anyway i can improve vista performance?
I don't understand how my "graphics" can have a score of 3.4 when the gaming graphics is 4.6...(I have a Nvidia 9300 GS 512Mb). How can I improve this score? I already have the latest driver for the
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Do you have old programs that have slow disk performance on Windows Vista or Windows 7? If so, you can squeeze a little more performance out of your hard disk by enabling what I call compatibility mode for your file system. This speeds up the performance of your hard disk by changing how write caching works. However, if your computer is not connected to a battery backup and you loose power you have a increased risk for data loss or corruption. If you have a laptop your chances are data loss or corruption are dramatically less since your laptop battery will kick on if your power source is lost. Let's get started: ....
View 0 Replies View RelatedOn my PC the longest part of the sync process in iTunes with my iPhone or iPad is the device backup. Taking up to an hour at times I can live without a backup. Especially since I jailbreak my devices which makes ever restoring a backup after an OS upgrade a bad idea.
There are two methods to disable the device backup feature. First, I'm going to show you the manual tweak....
ReadyBoost helps your computer by giving it more high-speed memory. If your computer is running low on RAM then it has to kick a lot of applications out of high-speed physical memory to the paging file on your hard drive. This usually results in a big hit in performance and increased activity on your hard drive. ReadyBoost helps this situation by giving Windows an alternative to having to stick data into the slow paging file on your hard drive. Instead, ReadyBoost uses a USB storage device that is faster than a hard disk. This results in a performance boost because Windows will have a high speed alternative than using the slow paging file on your hard drive....
View 0 Replies View RelatedI'm running vista home premium 64 bit on a Toshiba satellite A300 PCAGCA. I have recently purchased a Amicore "Philips" 3.5 sata enclosure model SDE 5170BC. I have fitted this enclosure with a 750 Gb WD barracuda HHD model ST3750528AS. The system recognises the drive when is plugged into the USB 2.0 but not when it plugged into the eSata port.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI thought I would share this with you all, a few little tricks to boost Windows performance. If you have a spare USB flash drive or you are willing to get a cheap say 1GB flash drive. First we plug in the flash drive. Go to Disk Manager and assign it a drive letter, like Z: (this is just to get it out of the way and optional). Go to Advanced system settings, Evironment variables. Change the Temp variable under User to Z: (I didn't see any point creating folders, but that's optional). Change the Temp variable under System variable to Z:
This will cut down on I/O traffic to the hard drive. Starting an app like Word, would cause the HD to read the program into memory while at the same time writing into the drive, temporary files. This causes an I/O queue to form and degrade Windows performance. By off loading some of the I/O traffic to another storage device, the hard drive read/write head doesn't have to move around as much either. All performance gains.
Another trick I tried was moving Windows Search Index to a flash drive, but it won't let me select even a 16GB flash drive. Even though the Index doesn't grow beyond 1GB. It's max size seems to be just under 1GB. You can move to it to a removable drive, though. I rebuilt the Index on an external 500GB USB drive. Again, this cuts down I/O traffic to the internal hard drive..........
I have evga motherboard with built in Realtek HD audio (ALC883). Board features 2 ports for digital audio (optical and coaxial). and according to manual both are output. However when installed vista drivers one of the ports has been chosen as digital output (optical) and another as digital input (coax) (i can see that when i hover the mouse over the jacks in "Realtek HD audio manager") Is there any way to make the coaxial port as an output port instead of optical? My my HT reciver has no free optical ports so i have to use coax to get some sound from the computer.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI would like to know the best way to increase performance on this system. I am already using system mechanic and it is very fast running vista but i would like to squeezze the last bit of performance that i can out of this system.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have my defrag set (not to run on a schedule) . After i defrag and check back it always tells me file system performance can be improved no matter how often i defrag. Is this normal?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI use a AT&T exspress aircard and can't send mail out through windows mail on Vista. Do I need to change my outgoing mail port from 25 to another port number? If so what port or how do I obtain that info?
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe download agent seems to work fine installing the Live suite of programs on my Vista-64 system. I can use Messenger without any problems, and can get to my hotmail account through Internet Explorer just fine. However when I go to use the Live Mail application a box comes up that say Windows is "configuring my system" then disappears with nothing else happening. The application never actually loads. I test the Windows Live mail on my laptop with XP and it works great. what the hangup is on Vista 64. I have 4GB of RAM, Pentium Quad Extreme processor, 320GB HD system.
View 4 Replies View RelatedTell me the effect of the software maintenance activities carried out has on the performance of a computer system??
View 9 Replies View RelatedYou try to copy a folder. It says, not necessarily at the beginning, "Do you want to merge these folders?" It should check for mergeable folders at the start of the transfer. About five minutes later, when it comes to a duplicate file, it says "Do you want to replace $File1 with $File2?" Again, it should check for ALL of these criteria before moving/copying anything, right at the beginning. I usually copy a multi-GB folder and leave for a while after clicking "Yes to all" on a prompt. I come back later to find that my files have not yet copied and there is yet another prompt. In conclusion, when I move a file, it will make the "done" sound, but then wait at the end of the loading bar for a few seconds. MS, please hear my cries and fix this. Remember to vote for this suggestion if you agree................
View 9 Replies View Relatedi would just like to know, is it worth upgrading my current procesor to improve gaming on my computer? Im currently using....Apparently my mother board does not support quad cores, so my question is, is it worth upgrading to lets say...amd 64x2 3800, to a amd 64x2 5200? would there be much inprovement, or am i looking at the wrong piece of hardware to change?
View 8 Replies View Relatedimprove my Frame Per Second in World Of Warcraft. How to do that? (without changing hardware if possible, cuz m using a laptop)
View 9 Replies View RelatedDoes WSR (Vista Speech) provide a way of selecting _which_ documents to scan in order to improve speech recognition?
Near as I can determine, it does not seem to matter at allwhether my Vista Document folder is empty, or chock-full of text documents, as far as speech recognition accuracy
is concerned.
I _did_ check-mark the box that allows user documents to be read, but it does not seem to have any effect one way or the other.
I've 512 kbps DSL shared connection. I'm noticing that my internet speed is going slower by day to day. I had downloaded lots of files from the internet from certain sites at reasonable speed. But now its not so. There're no viruses in my pc as i've installed a fresh copy of windows Vista. how to improve the internet speed. The downloading as well as the browsing.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if you know if there is a way to improve Vista's Video Preview on the Details Pane.
The problem I see is that Vista shows the very 1st second of video, while Windows 7 shows the 4th. That's why many of the video previews on the details pane show a black screen on vista instead of actual video.
Would changing the video card on my pc improve the quality of video on my extender. I get pixelation on skin and some motion drag when I am watching my videos through my 360.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMicrosoft’s Windows Sysinternals group has released a new virtual desktop utility called Desktops. If you have used virtual desktops on *nix or spaces on OS X you will feel right at home with Sysinternals Desktops.
For those of you that are new to virtual desktops, they are a great way to organizing your work and help you multi-task better.
Running Sysinternals Desktops is like having 4 monitors with 4 different desktops that you can have different windows or applications open on. You can easily switch between the desktops with your mouse or shortcut keys. I like to break up my tasks on different desktops. For example, I have Outlook open on virtual desktop 1 and my web developer apps like Dreamweaver and Photoshop open on desktop 2. When I am switching between different tasks I can just switch my current desktop view instead of minimizing and maximizing windows. This allows me to quickly switch between tasks without losing my window locations and setups.
After you download Sysinternals Desktops and run it you will see a new icon in the system tray that looks like 4 blocks. If you click on the icon you will see a preview of what you have open on each desktop....
I have followed these instructions for vista windows mail , but have no luck. It doesn't recognize name/password..............
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am having trouble with my windows updates. Updates history shows that all updates have successfully been installed. However, when I turn on and off my computer, I get a screen "configuring updates - 3 of 3". The computer takes ages to start or turn off....
View 7 Replies View RelatedI decided to do a complete reinstall of Vista 32 bit. What I'd like to know is the configuration of my Bios. I have an abit NF-M2S with a AMD 64 X2 4400 running wirh corsair 2x 1gb xms2 ddr2-800 cas mem. Like I said not sure about the bios settings but I am looking for proper performance. Also have an Hauppauge HVR-1600, I can set up the usual HD and boot process stuff, but the other timing and such got me lost.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhat I'd like to know is the configuration of my Bios. I have an abit NF-M2S with a AMD 64 X2 4400 running wirh corsair 2x 1gb xms2 ddr2-800 cas mem.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs it good idea to configure Regedit to Enable in the Local Group Policy Editor? I checked it and it says it's not configured it's not enabled either? Do i just leave it ALONE or configure it?
View 7 Replies View Relatedhow to stop configuring updates because i am tired of my stupid anti virus saying that the program is broken after each update and when the update happens it stays at 3of3 0% then i have to go to safe mode restart computer then it doesent do the updates which i am tired of this..and i do not have the disk of the vista it came with my computer when i bought it.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI received 4 updates today and all 4 installed however one update KB961371 showed error 800703F9. While configuring updates it would show Stage 1 of 3-0%complete. Then it would show updates not configured propertly. I tried this several time, same results. I did a system restore and then tried installing only the security update, same results. After this I reinstalled the other 3 update with no problem. This is the first time I have had a update not to install. I am using AVG Internet Security 8.5 version, however I don't think this is the problem as I have received over 130 windows updates inthe past. I do have windows set to install updates automatically every day. I have contacted MS with this information but have not received a answer. To tell the truth I trust the forum more. I look up some information and this update applies to 2008 windows server Itanium-based system. I have a HP Pavilion s3120n with AMD 64 live processor.
View 4 Replies View Relatedeverytime I start my pc i says vista keeps saying configuring updates and i'm not online right now so how can it update i'm useing a friends pc to type this.
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