[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 13:24:22 +0100

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.

--
Carol
carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

---- Original Message ----
From: George Bell
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 11:46 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish
video, memory and disk performance 

> 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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