Did your spyware tests come back all clear as it sounds like something some nasty spyware could do.
At 13:40 11/04/2009, you wrote:
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: <mailto:carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Carol Pearson To: <mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:24 PMSubject: [access-uk] Re: problems with my laptop computer, sluggish video, memory and disk performanceWe 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 <mailto:carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>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. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG.Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.11.52/2053 - Release Date: 4/10/2009 6:27 PM
