Effect Of The Software Maintenance Activities Carried Out Has On The Performance Of A Computer System
Feb 19, 2009Tell me the effect of the software maintenance activities carried out has on the performance of a computer system??
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Jun 10, 2009I 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..........
System Performance Increase
Aug 7, 2009I 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.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedSee Pictures For Yourself Describing The Timeline And Activities
Aug 6, 2009I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit System Builders SP1 OEM edition and have all the important updates installed, as well as most of the recommended updates installed, as well as Service Pack 2 (it comes with Service Pack 1 on the disc). I should also note that I run and use ESET Smart Security 4.0.
See these pictures for yourself describing the timeline and activities:ImageShack® -s1llyg00f's Profile Page. Explorer keeps needing to restart, event viewer keeps shutting down when I try to open it (although not all the time), UT3 has problems and needs to close, and recently ONLY ONE instance of the EVGA Precision RivaTunerOSServer FAQ kept opening over and over and over again for no real discernible reason when I tried to close it in the task manager; I would close it and another instance of it would pop open. I would close it again, and yet again another instance of it would pop open with there always only being one instance. It simply WOULD NOT close until I rebooted; logging off and back on didn't help either. Once I rebooted it didn't open but I took the trouble of deleting the folder where it was located so the damn thing couldn't possibly pop up like that again and refuse to close.........
Internet Connection Being Used For Network Activities
Mar 23, 2008I notice a big slowdown in my Internet connection speed when I'm using my network connection. For example, while browsing the web I'm listening to some MP3s in iTunes that are stored on my external network hard drive. As soon as I close down iTunes and the music stops my Internet connection speeds up. How can I force the network connection to use just that and not my Internet connection? I'm running Vista Ultimate. I'm connection to a wireless Internet connection that is plugged into another computer.
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Feb 28, 2009I have Vista Home Premium 64 bit. It has recently started going ding from time to time for no apparent reason. There is no dialog that pops up, and I haven't found any activity that alters the frequency of occurence, however the occurances are extremely erratic on one occasion there were several so close together they overlapped, I might get two or more in a five minute period or none for hours. I think they are becoming more frequent, but that could just be that I notice them more. Rebooting has no effect. AVG doesn't find anything.
I have found nothing that tells me why it is doing it - there are no entries in the system events that correspond to the dings. The only thing I have been able to establish is that taskeng.exe does access the file "C:WindowsMediaWindows Ding.wav" at the same time. This instance of taskeng is running under the logged in user credentials. Looking in Task Scheduler the task status doesn't change after a ding - indicating that an existing task, or the engine itself, is responsible.The list of running tasks shows the following MsCtfMonitor(Hidden, runs at user logon) SystemSoundService (runs at user logon)SystemTask (runs at system start)TMM (runs at user logon)UserTask (runs at user logon)
The last entry for these under history is "task started", except for SystemTask, and UserTask, which every 8 hours are rerun so show additional start and stop entries. The only errors are that UserTask fails to stop, and is restarted, when the system is shutting down, and SystemStart fails when the system starts due to a lack of a network connection, but does start shortly thereafter.ra.com/mail/
Tags For Photos Delete Procedure No Effect
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Apr 3, 2008I tried to change the location of my email account to the new localtion by
Maintenance/Store Folder/Change..., then choose the path to store my email
data then press OK, but a message appeared say that
"The directory you selected is not empty. Please select an empty directory
for your new store location.", then
"Windows Mail was unable to write to the regitry so your store will not be
moved"
How can I change the location store to the new location?
Sharing Internet From System / 2nd Computer Is XP
Mar 23, 2008I have searched numerous articles on setting up a home network with Vista as the primary computer (2 NIC's 1 goes to internet, other goes to switch).
At first, the XP system kept retaining the old ip address from when it was connected directly to the internet. File sharing would work though (or at least the vista system would see files on the XP system). I found an article that said I had to install the Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder, so I downloaded that patch from Microsoft and installed it. Now, the Vista system can see the XP system and shows it in the network map. I checked the XP system, it is obtaining the ip address 192.168.0.121. The XP system still isn't getting to the internet.
Operating System Loaded On Computer?
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View 9 Replies View RelatedPerformance Drop
Jan 20, 2010I've suddenly got a steep proformance drop that makes playing all my games pretty much impossible.
It usually states when I'm playing MW2. I turn on the game and have no performance issues. I enter a game and no performance issues. The game starts and no performance issues. It's only until around 5-10 minutes in that I experience the performance drop. When that happens, I can't do anything except to hope that the performance goes back up again. Reducing the resolution does not help. Changing my graphics card from quality based to proformance based does not help. Increasing my performance vs power saving does not help. I'm not running any other programs that are using up all the space (How would I? you can't even tab out of MW2 while you're playing it). Restarting the computer also does not help.
Worse still, this performance drop also affects everything else randomly as well.
I really don't know what I can do.
This has happened before, but not for this long.
Performance Indicators And % ?
May 15, 2010I have just set up my two Vista systems and would like to know what the rest of you get as far as your CPU and RAM% are concerned.
On my small Benq joybook it hovers at 55%cpu and 50%ram.
On my Dragon it hovers at 2%cpu and 55% ram at idle.
Any help and info would be great. Ide like to try and reduce the cpu on the Benq obviously as well as the ram on both machines.
Both machine are quite fresh, not really loaded with software. Running N360 on both machines.
SP1 Performance Still AWFUL!
Apr 10, 2008Full backup across my network:
Started 4/10/2008 1:37:55 AM
Scanning 'C:'
Completed 4/10/2008 1:08:27 PM
Folders Compared: 17445; Files Compared: 0; Folders Created: 17445; Files
Copied: 145057 (26576807906 bytes)
Just short of 12 hours. Dreadful...just dreadful!
Very Slow Performance With 32
Mar 23, 2008I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FZ11S, with Vista Home 32. The laptop has a Core 2 Duo T7100 @1.8GHz and 2Gb RAM. I run Office 2007, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Corel, etc... Sometimes the machine becomes so slow I almost fall asleep (literally!) while waiting for it do perform a simple task such as opening IE or showing a menu or opening an email message. I should add that my PST has 5.6 Gb. I'd like to reduce its size, although I don't think it is the cause of the slow running, but I need to keep many emails... I have talked with Sony and they simply refuse to let their customers downgrade to Xp. So, besides tweaking (which I don't know how to), what can I do to my laptop to avoid these episodes of EXTREMELY slow running?
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Mar 4, 2009I have been battling a problem with my new build for almost 3 months. My rig:
Gigabyte EP45-UD3R
Core2Quad Q6600
G.Skill DDR2-800 2x2GB
Geforce 6800 GT
PC&P Silencer 500W
WD Black 1 TB
Vista Home Premium 64-bit
My performance is terrible! This is my first experience with vista. My pc runs sluggishly, sims 2 game crashes at startup, my other 2 games (half life 2, left 4 dead) are very choppy and unplayable. Browsing playlist in iTunes with cover art displayed is choppy and slow (unusable, i have to turn the cover art off).
If I take out 1 of my sticks of RAM it seems fine. If i load XP, it seems fine, even with both sticks.
I have ran memtest on my ram, tried my ram in all the slots, ran prime 95 for hours with no errors, ran diagnostics on my hdds, rma'd my motherboard (they returned it saying nothing was wrong with it), purchased a new motherboard (asus p5q), tried 2 other kinds of RAM, updated all of my drivers, reinstalled vista a billion times, and NOTHING has worked.
The only thing left to replace is my cpu and before I go through that hassle, I just want to exhaust the last avenue, since the problem is only evident in vista with all my memory sticks installed.