[AccessD] The old laptop is slowing down

 > I moved from Vista to W7 and got a nice bump in  response time. Vista is such a pig.

Tell me!  I installed Vista on this laptop a couple of years ago and have hated it ever since.  I 
think I will try an upgrade to 2007 just to see if that helps at all.

 >I assume you went through your processes and killed all the unnecessary ones.  Crap does accumulate.

I do that every 6 months or so.

 >4GB Ram?

It has 4 gigs now.  Unfortunately unknown to me I was sold a laptop with a chip set that cannot 
access more than 3.5 gigs.  Who would suspect such a thing?



John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 12/24/2010 1:38 PM, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> I moved from Vista to W7 and got a nice bump in  response time. Vista is
> such a pig.  I assume you went through your processes and killed all the
> unnecessary ones.  Crap does accumulate.  4GB Ram?
>
> R
>
>
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> Subject: [AccessD] The old laptop is slowing down
>
> It is sad and somewhat annoying when the laptop starts slowing down.  Is it
> just perception?  Am I accustomed now to remote desktop into faster machines
> and working in snappier systems?  Is it an accumulation of crap?  Do I need
> a reinstall?  Maybe a move from Vista to Windows 7, with a clean install
> along the way?  An SSD?
>
> All I know is that things don't load fast any more.  Even doing compiles on
> VS 2008 is a "sit and wait" experience.
>
> I think I really need a new quad core Intel (bad John, BAD John!) iXXX core
> running Windows 7 X64 and 16 gigs of ram, all on a 512 G SSD running the
> latest Sandforce (who makes up these names?) controller.  It is Christmas
> after all!
>
> Now to convince the wife!
>
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