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Thanks Luc, but you have told me nothing I didn't already say I knew in my question. It is work issue machine, and all are standard 2GB. When I have cash, I will put my own 4GB in the machine, on loan to the company, until I prove myself and they give me a new HP, like the more senior guys have. 
I'm looking for guidelines on which resource hogs to remove and which ones to detune.
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Brady Kelly wrote: you have told me nothing I didn't already say
really? one of us must have missed a few things then.
IMO if it is Win-64 (I'm still waiting on that info) then whatever you do with only 2GB is a waste of time. And if they want to save less than 100$ (that[^] is what 4GB cost) and don't care you're working well below your potential, then you're in the wrong company.
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Oh, I'm working in the right company alright, for many reasons. I'm sure if I motivate enough I'll get the 4GB, but I must first at least finish my first project on time (it's already over the 1st deadline) before I make any demands.
BTW, I'm running Win 32 bit.
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Brady Kelly wrote: I'm running Win 32 bit
Good. You'll have to put it on a diet now.
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Avoid all fancy stuff; e.g. turn off Aero and all kinds of animation.
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Use TaskManager and sysinternals/autoruns to identify each and every redundant process, and how it got started. Remove/disable everything you don't need. There will be dozens of "utilities" that periodically check for updates, (claim to) provide assistance at some tasks, etc. Chuck them all out. When in doubt, type the process name in Google's search box. Using a second PC for this is handy!
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Some people claim registry fragmentation is high on the list of suspects; and there are tools to deal with that. I have never used any though.
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Now take care of your disk. Remove unnecessary files, limit the size of the Recycle Bin, remove all your browser history and cache, and limit the size of your browser's cache, etc. Then defragment.
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STOP THIS NOW!
All of your posts will be deleted very shortly...
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and if you hadn't've replied to the spammer no trace of his hijinks would remain visible on the forum. 
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Have you checked in the task manager whether you use more or less than the 2 GB of memory you have?
If memory is the bottleneck, most other solutions will have only a comparably small impact.
Otherwise the solutions are mostly common sense.
0. Uninstall programs you don't use.
1. Make sure your HD is not having more than 80% of its space used, and defrag it.
2. Get PageDefrag[^] from Sysinternals and defrag your Pagefile and registry hives. (Probably not necessary, but what the heck)
3. Get a reasonably fast USB stick with more than 256 MB and run readyboost on it. The less memory and slower HD, the bigger impact with this one.
Shutting down services have only a small impact on Windows seven as unnecessary services aren't started until you enable those roles.
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
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4. Don't use Google desktop!
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
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Regarding services, this website has advice on what you could do http://www.blackviper.com/[^]. Clear the "rubbish" that builds up over time. Do that by using the MS Disk Cleanup utility as well as the Piriform CCleaner - note, some cleaning utilities are not particularly safe to use but CCleaner is fine. Defrag regularly but you might have better results using the Piriform Defraggler. Use SysInternal's AutoRuns to question what starts up at boot time and uncheck entries as necessary.
modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.
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Brady Kelly wrote: I am running Windows 7 Enterprise
Install XP.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
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Brady Kelly wrote: Acer Travelmate 5730, Core2 Duo 2GHz with only 2GB ram
32ft/sec^2
Brady Kelly wrote: I will buy ram and lend it to the company when I have money.
Don't do that. You'll be wasting your money and may not get the memory back when the notebook has to be turned in. Prove that it's your memory in there.
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I'll replace my memory with their memory again if I turn the notebook in.
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That only works if you don't end up having to turn the computer in at an unexpected time, eg when being terminated for tampering with a company asset (your laptop, caught when their big-brotherware spots a hardware change).
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We're not such a large, big-brotherish company. I didn't even sign for the notebook, guy just handed me one and said, "Here's a notebook"
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One very simple thing that I have seen work effectively a surprising number times is to give the thing a very thorough cleaning. I mean you should get a small can of compressed air (specifically for electronic devices) and blow out all of the vents you can see and open as many of the hatches as possible and do this there also.
The reason is that laptop CPUs throttle down their speed when they heat up. When they are very dirty with lots of dust inside that interferes with the ventilation and cooling of the machine so it gets hot and slows itself down. This happens a lot but it is such a slow process that people usually don't notice it until it gets really dirty and the machine is always slow.
Of course, everything else people have said is helpful too but if you have tried all of that and it's still slow then try this. You might be surprised. 
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Does laser printer and inkjet printer affect to our health?
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Hi,
I hope it's alright to post my question here - I was going to post this in the Hardware forum but it doesn't seem to get anywhere near the same amount of attention as the lounge.
My dad has a Sony Vaio PCV 2236 desktop machine.
It's about 5 years old at this point.
He wants to buy Empire : Total War but his current graphics card isn't good enough to run the game.
Play.com indicates that a '256MB DirectX 9.0c compatible Graphics Card with Shader Model 2.0 support' card is required.
I've never had to worry about graphics cards before so I was wondering if anyone can suggest where I might begin to look for a suitable one?
Specs for his machine can be found here[^].
Thanks,
David
modified on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 7:08 AM
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That looks good. I'll check it out. Thanks very much.
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dlarkin77 wrote: I was going to post this in the Hardware forum but it doesn't seem to get anywhere near the same amount of attention as the lounge
Not using a forum isn't the best way to improve its value.
Thread moved.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Depending on the game an AGP 3850 may be faster than a 4650; the cards are approximately the same in performance but have different bottleneck points. These two cards are the fastest available for AGP. ATI hasn't done an AGP card based on the 5xxx series GPUs; nVidia abandoned AGP several generations back. Somewhat broadly speaking old high end GPUs tend to outperform newer midrange GPUs on older games and fall behind on newer ones. That said the ATI 9200 is a old very low end card; so either would be a major upgrade.
Toms hardware has decent benchmark tables you can use to compare performance on various games. I had to fall back to older charts to get the 3850. The 4650 doesn't appear to be on any of Tom's benchmark collections but it should be about 20% slower than the 4670.
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-cards-charts-2009-q4-mainstream-quality-update-3/benchmarks,69.html[^]
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Hi,
I need to purchase a new server soon and want to install SBS 2008 Premium. But I'm not sure what server spec is needed or the best setup for it!
We need SQL Server installed and I've been reading that its best to split the main Domain Server from any SQL Server.
Do I get a more high spec Server and run Hyper-V for SQL or have two smaller spec servers?
As usually in a small company, we have no money to spend and so we need the best solution for us...!!
This is a relatively new company, and I need to setup the whole infrastructure from the ground up! We have nothing... except old desktop PC's and an aging server that all need replacing 
Any tips would be greatly appreciated as I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure this out on my own...
 developer
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What is the perfect setup for a development PC: virtual machines or dual boot OS?
I’ve recently started a new job and have a fab new PC to go with it. But what would be the ideal setup?
I’m thinking about installing VirtualBox to run a number of OSes, as I’d like to keep the base PC clean:
Base machine OS is Win 7 Pro
1 – Win 7 pro for actual development with VS 2010
2 – Server 2008 R2 for SQL Server 2008 (as a development server)
3 - Win 7 basic - Test Environment
4 – Win XP - Test Environment
Over the years of trying out new software, un/installing, updating etc my PC usually gets a little slow over time… but setting up a number of VMs could help…
I'm not sure how a dual boot PC would really help... Your suggestions please 
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Using Windows XP SP3 I've seen this happen twice. Once while trying to recover a dodgy drive using a USB external carrier, and again tonight using a known good external DVD/CD-RW drive. In both cases, I plugged the drive in to the USB port, Windows did its thing detecting and installing the device (correctly identifying each), but no drive shows up in Explorer. In the first case, the drive was from a laptop that died of untimely drowning; it wasn't unexpected to find the device dead. But the second was a nearly new Sony external USB DVD/CD-RW writer that was moved from one computer to another, and it works perfectly in the original computer. Both systems are running WinXP SP3 and are regularly updated. Sony's website says that no drivers are required, as WinXP will autodetect the drive, and the only software that shipped with it was Nero.
What could cause this behavior?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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