[dba-Tech] Laptop should run faster

How do you turn off indexing?

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drew Wutka" <dbatech at wolfwares.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
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Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 2:22 AM
Subject: RE: [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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