Re: Slow Start-up
- From: Jacques <Jacques@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:41:01 -0800
Yes, 2 minutes and 40 seconds, instead of 3 minutes 45 seconds.
"DatabaseBen" wrote:
last question,,,,.
is booting into safemode
an improvement over the normal boot?
"Jacques" <Jacques@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Last question: in bestbuy.com, all notebooks proposed have 5400 rpm at
most.
None has 7200 rpm, that's not a problem?
"Bob I" wrote:
Yes that one will be faster. As to jumping in now 1) Determine what
version of Vista you will be eligible for. and 2) Office 2007 is "due
out" early in 2007.
Jacques wrote:
Thanks for the good info.
I'm thinking of buying now a new laptop because I'm loosing time now. I
went
to Best Buy and I found one at
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8032489&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat103700050047&id=1157067574621
It's not the Intel processor but it's AMD 64 X2 1.6 Ghz, for $900. It'
still
better than a 2.4 GHz pentium 4, right?
About Windows Vista, Best Buy will provide free upgrade by mail when it
comes out, so that's another good reason for me to buy.
Do you know when Windows Vista will come out?
Or maybe I should wait that laptop with Office 2007 comes out? do you
know
when Office 2007 comes out?
Jacques
"Bob I" wrote:
basically you get 2 processors in one package. There are a couple of
things that result in it not being twice as fast. One, there is
overhead
that causes a little processor use because they have to share resources
and two, the work has to be assigned or parceled out. In general use,
you would see anything from about 120 to 180% of a single processor of
the given speed. As for the hard drive, lets say you replace the 4200
with a 7200 rpm. You won't be changing the burst speed(read from cache)
but you may pick up the hardware data transfer rate maybe 50-60
percent.
So outlook takes 2 seconds to load instead of 3. My personal choice
would be to continue using the current laptop as is for about a year
and
then in middle of next year when the Vista installs are all sorted out
by the vendors, pick up a new one with all the bells and whistles.
Jacques wrote:
Mistake: I bought my laptop $1800 3 years and half, not 2 years and
half.
So let say, a 1.6GHz IntelÃ,® CentrinoÃ,® Duo processor is faster
than a 2.4 GHz
Pentium 4?
Is a 1.6 Ghz Centrino Duo roughly equivalent to a 3.2 GHz (1.6 times
2)
pentium 4?
Thanks for all your good advices.
"Bob I" wrote:
You may do as you wish, but I believe you are placing WAY TOO MUCH
emphasis on the "speed" of the laptop. As to 2 Ghz well CPU's have 2
cores or processors instead of one now. You may wish to review those
laptops with that in mind.
Jacques wrote:
I have 2 choices: either I spend $187 on a new hard drive (with 80GB
instead
of 60GB) and a Hard Drive Upgrade Kit USB 2.0. It clones the old
hard drive
into the new one so I don't loose time resintalling all OS and
softwares.
Either I resell my laptop for $400 on ebay and buy a new one. I
bought it
$1800 2 and half years ago. But I don't understand, I went to
bestbuy.com and
I couldn't find one with the same processor speed as mine: 2.4 GHz
(Pentium
4). The maximum speed was 2 GHz. So because of that, I'm not
interested in
buying a new laptop (even if I will have free upgrade to Windows
Vista). Do
you know why, 2 years and half later, processor speeds have not
increased in
store?
Also, if I buy a new laptop, I would have to loose time resintalling
many
old programs.
"Bob I" wrote:
Think I would save my money up and buy a better laptop, and not get
too
worried about the current one. You may want to consider using the
hibernate feature.
Jacques wrote:
I found a possibility to upgrade my hard drive at
http://www.drivesolutions.com/cgi-bin/shop/ug2store.cgi?command=listitems&kind=cpl&pos=0&type=itemid&itemid=cpl844
It would cost me $130, it's cheaper than buying a new laptop.
But I would loose much time in reinstalling all the programs.
So you advise me to replace the hard drive? it would solve my
problem of
slow startup?
The other problems I had were: Outlook takes much time to start
up, when I
click on Internet explorer program, it takes 3 seconds to open.
Jacques
"Bob I" wrote:
4200 rpm is excruciatingly slow. I would venture that that is a
big part
of the "slow". While it would help with battery life, you will
pay the
price in time whenever you need to wait while something has to be
retrieved from disc, like bootup for instance.
Jacques wrote:
AC plugged in.
No HP utility is running.
It's a 4200 RPM.
"Bob I" wrote:
Is that speed with the AC plugged in or is it running on
battery? How
much "HP" utilities are being loaded? Is it a 5400 rpm drive or
7200
rpm. Oh so many possibilities!
Jacques wrote:
Very good question.
I have a Compaq Presario laptop 2.4 GHz and 512 MB RAM.
"Leftred" wrote:
"Jacques" <Jacques@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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I posted a question a few weeks ago about my laptop taking 6
minutes to
start
up.
A few people told me that it should be 1 minute instead.
When I time the start-up, I don't stop the time when I see
the desktop
(which is pretty quick) but when the hard drive light stop
to be always on
(meaning that startup programs have finished to load). So
for people who
have
a start-up time of 1 minute, did you time it like I did?
Then I followed the advices given on my post, I removed the
maximum of
startup items (items that I don't use every day) in msconfig
and the
start-up
time became 5 minutes. It was not good enough so I decided
to uninstall
ZoneAlarm (Firewall Protection) and use Windows Firewall
instead. The
start-up time is now 3 minutes 45 seconds (measured with the
hard drive
light
turned off like described above). Is it good enough now?
You don't mention the specs of your laptop. If you have a
slow CPU and not
much RAM you should expect a slow boot time. What have you
got?
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