Reason I haven't checked into it is because I don't know what I'd be messing up by removing or changing. Could be of some use for anyone who hasn't given it a look yet so thought I would mention it. Of course, there's all the Vista extras that could be turned off, too.
Gained 0. Have since set it to MB and the score remains the same. Anyway, lots of stuff to look at in that Advanced Tools section so if you haven't done it give that a try.
Oh, one more thing I should add. The Bypass setting was apparently making my GB Western Digital spend alot of time parking and unparking the heads. One more thing I had learned of is to delay the auto start of program indexing.
But I don't know if it helps, I couldn't sense any differences from that. Can't recall where it is but if you search for that you'll probably find something about it. Should be where all the loadable processes are listed, as was in XP, with the stopped, manual and auto start being set for each. Regardless, I do get that several minutes of HDD activity when resuming from Hibernate or starting cold. I'm just not noticing much slowdown aside from nothing being lightning fast as expected, same history for all my past computers, like I said before.
Since my original post concerning a very slow system, the gig hard drive has since gone from 40 gigs to gigs full! The first tech person, went painstakeningly through my files After about 10 minutes I told him to stop it, he was wasting both our times. The next tech person had me do a system check upon bootup, I believe you hit f12 repeatedly during the intial boot. After about 3 minutes, the computer began beeping with hardware warnings.
It seems that my hard drive is severely injured :- Dell has since sent me a replacement dive. I won't know the results of this fix until my daughter returns from University with her laptop and I'm able to reinstall it and the software. So, my orginal slow system may have had hardware issues all along, but Dell tech support did everything but check my hardware. Their focus was viruses, too many things running, etc I'm curious however as to how computer companies are allowed to replace defective components with refurbished parts, Dell isn't alone in this practice, even Apple does it.
I wouldn't expect my car dealer to replace defective components with used unless I requested it. I feel systems still under warranty should have nothing less than new components as replacements. Install dell media direct and roxio from cds supplied with your system. Install any other Applications e. Install all drivers in the order listed. If you have not already done so then restart. In windows. Repeat for all users. Then delete the windows. Then press the windows key and r and type in msconfig in the run box and press enter.
Go to the start-up tab and Disable all unecessary programs from starting up by unchecking the ticks e. Keep however all the dell ones and microsoft ones, maybe not all microsoft office ones , keep broadcom ones, AMD ones, security, touchpad, audio etc. Note in word and outlook disable the send to bluetooth addin it effects performance of word and outlook.
Press the office button at top of word then go to word options then add ins then select go beside com add ins and disable this addin. That's just it. It's on there somewhere, but you can't do just a clean Vista install unless someone knows something I don't. Browse Community. Laptops General - Read Only. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by tboneson1 Unsolved.
Inspiron with Vista - Painfully slow. So far I have tried the following: Turned off Aero Disabled Sidebar from loading Removed Norton Internet Security and Installed Kaspersky I notice in the Performance monitor that there are a large number of "Hard Faults" whenever I boot up or launch a new application up to faults per second. Does anyone have any advice or similar experience? Any help would be appreciated Thanks Dan.
All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies Yours is a common complaint. I've changed some things to help that, and maybe it has.
Vista still reports slowness when resuming from Sleep, the reason: ATI driver and memorystick driver. Merely several seconds so I'm not going to worry about it. That'll give you links at the top of that window to show you what Vista thinks can be a problem. Just be aware it might tell you of things from long ago. Right-click on Superfetch found in that list, choose Properties and set that to Automatic Delayed Start.
There's a timeline view for performance logs Vista creates, same place as Services is found, called Reliability and Performance Monitor should be above Services in the list. Click into that to see details of specific things which might have errors, etc. You'd be wise to create a System Restore point before going about making changes.
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