[dba-Tech] Laptop should run faster

Turn of indexing.  Also, defrag your drive once in a while.  There are a lot
of opinions on how often you should defrag your drive, but if you are
creating and deleting files a lot, things can get kind of messy.  That's a
disadvantage of a laptop, because you are using one hard drive.  If you have
the time, I strongly recommend ALWAYS partitioning your drive(s) into three
main partitions.  OS, Programs, Data.  That way, nothing really interferes
with the OS, on it's own partition.  Programs that you install will be on
their own partition (though some files DO get installed to the OS parition
whether you like it or not), and all your data is on it's own.  That tends
to make things nice and clean, and in doing so, the only partition that
needs defragging is the Data drive, but you won't notice it until it gets
really bad.

I personally partition more then that on my home machines.  I put music in
it's own partition, games in another, etc.

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
- Beach Access Software
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 12:55 AM
To: dba-tech
Subject: [dba-Tech] Laptop should run faster


Dear tech:

My laptop doesn't run as fast as I thin it should (who's does?).  I recall
vaguely some tips about things that can be turned of in windows that tend to
bog things down.  Some kind of logging, or indexing, or audit trailing, or
something.

Anyway, if anyone has any hints I'll give them a try.  It's a 64bit Athlon
processor running with 512MB RAM and WXP Home.  Seems to be doing a lot of
disk swapping when starting or terminating programs.  Also slow startup when
changing user accounts.

Any tips appreciated.

Best,

Rocky Smolin
Beach Access Software
http://www.e-z-mrp.com
858-259-4334
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