[dba-Tech] Laptop should run faster

A slower machine (then should be) will  most likely mean you got a
trojan or a virus on your computer.

Some while ago, I also experienced slowness and that was caused by the
SNMP and SNMP WMI windows software (XP Pro only???). I found some
article about it, but no solution but to remove this windows part.
Have no idea why that caused it because I used it for 2 years without a
problem, but it seem to conflict with some kind of update or software.
The machine was much much slowe,, kind of your CPU runs all the time at
100%, but the weird thing was that it was not...
It indeed looked like it was swapping all the time memory to the disk
for every little thing I deed.
It is in Windows management and Control software options. Posibly only
for Windows XP Pro.

Erwin

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 11:23 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
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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