[dba-Tech] Laptop should run faster

I'll run Adaware and Spybot - see what they turn up.

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erwin Craps - IT Helps" <Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
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Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 3:39 AM
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Laptop should run faster


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>
> 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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