Re: Slow performance
- From: "Daave" <dcwashNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 09:57:54 -0500
I am referring to specific drivers for specific types of hardware like
sound cards, graphics cards, network cards, etc. You should never get
these from Microsoft. You should always get them directly from the
manufacturers' Web sites.
Ritter 197 wrote:
WHy "never" drivers from MS????
In Windows XP, VISTA and now in Windows 7 there are MANY drivers
installed from MS.
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My dell laptop over the past 6 months has been running slow.
Start-up is slow, opening IE7, or office programs also takes time
(30 seconds or more for
word or excel). I have Mcafee and Spybot loaded which are run at
least once a
week. Neither have ever report anything more than a minor tracking
cookie. I
have tried all the commonly advised tricks, clean up, defrag etc but
nothing.
No new programs have been added and most additional software like
Photoshop
has been running since the computer was new. I have a separate
portable hard
drive for photos etc so the computer drive is 33.6 GB with 20.3
used and 13.3
GB free.
XP service Pack 3
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
1 GB ram
Office 2007
Windows Task manager
CPU usage is normally in 10% and under range
PF usage around 532mb
Physical Memory
Total 1047904
Available 461856
System Cache 489220
Commit Charge
Total 519148
Limit 2523512
Peak 673184
Kernel Memory
Total 51500
Paged 37944
Non Paged 13556
You seem to have lots of RAM. That's good because that means you are
not relying on the pagefile. McAfee can sometimes bog a system down,
but it doesn't sound like that's happening in your case.
Assuming you are malware-free (and this needs to be confirmed!), you
might be experiencing the same thing that happened to my boss
recently. He has a Dell Latitude D610 laptop. It had become
excruciatingly slow. Two things happened. First, an optional
software update from Windows Update conflicted with one of his
programs, resulting in excessive CPU usage. (Also, there have been
cases where a critical update conflicted with third-party programs
such as ZoneAlarm firewall.) Second, this situation caused the hard
drive transfer mode to shift to the very slow PIO mode. I would
uninstall updates in bunches, perhaps needing to go back as
long as six months. My hunch is one of those updates caused your
problem, too. (Then again, it *is* a hunch!) If I'm right, you will
notice that the excessive CPU activity will cease. At this point,
address the transfer mode if necessary. See:
http://winhlp.com/node/10
In the future, just download and install the critical Windows
updates. And *never* download drivers from Microsoft!
.
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