John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sun Jan 2 13:02:12 CST 2005
First thing to do is go get a 7200 rpm drive. I am serious Rocky. Laptops come with 4200 rpm drives and they suck for access speeds. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-146-020&depa=0 Get a usb port connected shell that holds the hard drive (the form factor is important here, laptop hds are smaller). Then attach the new drive to your laptop. Ghost the contents out to the new drive. Swap the internal with the new one. It took me about 1 hour (plus the transfer time of the ghost operation), dead simple to do. After that get a 1gb dim. I bought this one for my EMachines: http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4158153 My laptop now performs like it should. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----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 1:55 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 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com