[access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish video, memory and disk performance

  • From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:42:33 +0100

Let us know when you solve it and what you found to be the culpret.

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Carol
carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

---- Original Message ----
From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:40 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
video, memory and disk performance 

> Hi Carol.
> 
> Thanks for your advice.  I'm steadily working through my system with
> a fine tooth comb, removing unnecessary start-up and service entries
> to see if I can get a better performance.  Its possible something is
> interfering with the performance tests, so I'm going to get some
> benchmarking software to do local tests in safe mode to try and
> isolate the problem.  For me, its not so much sorting out the problem
> that is the issue here, its trying to find out what the problem is I
> need to solve *smile*.  As for your suggestion re the bios, the bios
> in my machine is extremely simplistic it being a phoenix note bios so
> there isn't much that can be changed, however I'll avail myself of
> sighted assistance when I have the opportunity and go through it
> option by option.           
> 
> All the best, Ibrahim.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carol Pearson
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:24 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
> video, memory and disk performance 
> 
> 
> We once had a very sluggish computer and found that a friend had set
> something in the bios which was really slowing it down.  Putting
> everything back to defaults suddenly and miraculously speeded that
> computer no end!  (Just a thought ...)   
> 
> Ibrahim, the other thing is to think back - has this computer always
> been slow?  Then work out what you installed last etc. and work your
> way back, hopefully.  
> 
> 
>> Hi Ibrahim,
>> 
>> You may need sighted help, but it might be an idea to try running the
>> tests in Safe Mode if you can, where only a limited set of drivers,
>> etc., would be loaded.  If you then see a significant improvement, at
>> least you'll have somewhere to start from.
>> 
>> George.
>> 
>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Ibrahim Gucukoglu
>> Sent: 11 April 2009 07:44
>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
>> video, memory and disk performance
>> 
>> Hi George.
>> 
>> Well, thanks for your input.  I did exactly as you suggested, indeed
>> I'm using Auslogics BoostSpeed which is a reasonably good and highly
>> accessible optimisation and performance management suite.  Alas, I
>> use Mcafee, but my experience with it is so far good and running a PC
>> Pitstop test on my netbook yielded much better results, though the
>> software installed is more or less the same as the software on my
>> laptop machine with only a few minor issues.  Even the external drive
>> ran much faster, to the order of around 3 times as fast.  I also
>> copied a large file to the drive on both machines, exactly the same
>> file took twice as long to copy on my laptop compared to my netbook.
>> 
>> All the best, Ibrahim.
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: George Bell
>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 6:10 AM
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
>> video, memory and disk performance
>> 
>> Hi Ibrahim,
>> 
>> Having looked at the Compel specs, and PCPitStop, I wonder if the
>> latter have played down the results in an effort to persuade you to
>> buy PC Optimize product?
>> 
>> That said, if you have noticed a serious degrading of performance,
>> the question is how to track down what is causing it.  I guess it
>> pretty much goes without saying that you've done all the usual things
>> such as clearing temp files and temporary internet files, defragging
>> and such like.
>> 
>> What sort of Processes are running and taking up processor time?
>> Many of today's anti-virus programs seem to be hogging system power
>> these days - indeed I've just ditched McAfee for that very reason.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> 
>> George,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Ibrahim Gucukoglu
>> Sent: 11 April 2009 05:44
>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
>> video, memory and disk performance
>> Hi George.
>> 
>> Its a custom built machine, but the white box brand is Compal and the
>> model number FL90.  You should be able to find the specs for the case
>> on the Compal website, but if you can't I'll happily drag up my
>> invoice with the spec on for you to take a look at.
>> 
>> All the best, Ibrahim.
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: George Bell
>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 5:24 AM
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
>> video, memory and disk performance
>> 
>> What is the make and model of your laptop?
>> 
>> George.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Ibrahim Gucukoglu
>> Sent: 11 April 2009 03:05
>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [access-uk] problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
>> video, memory and disk performance
>> Hi Everyone.
>> 
>> Its unusual for me to write to any list with a technical problem
>> *smile*, but I can't figure out what is happening here so would
>> appreciate some assistance.
>> 
>> I recently started experiencing sluggish performance of my main
>> laptop pc.  The general spec is a 2.4GHZ dual core processor, 2GB
>> memory, Nvidia 512MB dedicated graphics chip and Windows XP
>> professional edition.  The laptop has a 250GB SATA 5400RPM hard drive
>> and when doing the tests I had my Freecom XXS drive connected which
>> has 320GB with the same rotational speed.  I ran a series of
>> performance tests at www.pcpitstop.com which reported that 2D and 3D
>> graphics were poor, but most alarmingly, the memory performance of
>> this machine was only around the 400MB mark, yet i have 1066MHZ
>> memory in this machine.  Also, disk performance was poor, with my
>> freecom drive only read/write data speed at 9MB whilst the system
>> disk managed 33MB.  If anyone has any suggestions as to what may be
>> causing these issues, some ideas would be much appreciated.
>> 
>> All the best, Ibrahim.

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