[dba-Tech] Laptop should run faster

Rocky,

I've been trying to do some screen video capture with MS Windows Media
Viewer Encoder (free!).  This was so slow that it was going to be unusable.
I came across a tip to turn off all hardware acceleration, and that did the
trick.  Go to screen properties, select Settings - Advanced - Troubleshoot.
Push the slider to the left side.  Mine was set to full acceleration.  I
haven't seen any adverse affects from doing this, so I'll keep it at this
setting.

This may only be helpful for problems with the screen display, but it's a
cheap fix!

HTH,
Dan Waters
ProMation Systems

-----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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