Re: Noticeable lag when doing anything on the desktop
- From: "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:02:06 -0500
Your laptop PC likely uses a hard drive that runs at 5400 RPM. This is far short of the norm of 7500 RPM used in most desktop computers - some even use 10,000 or 15,000 RPM drives. The hard drive is the slowest part of any computer. File operations are the first to suffer. Then comes loading large programs into memory - such as M/S Office.
My son just bought a new laptop for his step daughter for Christmas. It was dog A** slow, even with 2 gig of RAM. I increased it to 4 gig of RAM and it made a noticeable improvement. Remember, your onboard video chews up a bunch of installed RAM which leaves you with less for the operating system and loaded programs.
Also, if you use many large programs you are likely making heavy use of the pagefile (hence the hard drive). You didn't mess with this, did you. More RAM means less usage of the page file and speedier operating of the operating system.
Additionally, clean off all the crap that manufacturers include with a new computer. Just doing this will speed up a computer substantially.
One last this! I have seen computers that are less that a week old so infested with malware that it brings the computer to its knees. What is the first thing that a new owner does. He goes online to his favorite web sites. With the malware picture the way it is today, a know good site today today (pick any that you would thing is safe, such as Wal-Mart) may be compromised by tomorrow - thereby infecting anyone who visits the web site.
Without actually having "hands on" with your computer I can only give generalities.
--
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
"ReGenesis0" <ReGenesis0@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:61023295-f96d-4a8d-86c9-6b6b7fd77535@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Dec 29, 6:16 pm, "Richard Urban"
<richardurbanREMOVET...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you state the specs of your new computer it would certainly help others
to assist you. You may just have an under powered computer.
....lack of computing power causes Vista to be unable to provide such
basic services as moving files?
The flashy graphics i can understand-- but i turned that all off.
It's the _desktop_. I save files and folders on it, and move things
about. It doesn't have trouble moving stuff in folders with a
comparable number of items in them. There is something wrong with the
deaktop specifically, not an overall underpowered hardware problem.
OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name XXXXXXX
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP Pavilion dv9700 Notebook PC
System Type X86-based PC
Processor AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60, 2000 Mhz, 2
Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard F.25, 11/29/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6000.16407"
User Name XXXXXXX\XXXX
Time Zone Central Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 1,982.31 MB
Available Physical Memory 839.68 MB
Total Virtual Memory 4.14 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.80 GB
Page File Space 2.23 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
-Derik
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