| Brian Cryer 2006-09-24, 7:00 pm |
| "mbstevens" <NOXwebmasterX@XmbstevensX.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.09.22.13.11.50.817963@XmbstevensX.com...
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:51:25 -0700, ship wrote:
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> There are a lot of hacks that will affect system performance just by
> tweaking the software.
>
> These include turning off unneeded background
> services, optimizing the GUI for speed, hacking registry to remove DLLs
> from cache memory, defragging.
Defragging! Whilst (personally) I think this is often a complete waste of
time, if the disk is badly fragmented (i.e. probably mostly full and hasn't
been defragmented for a couple of years) then it may be worth defragging it.
My reply isn't to give the merits or demerits over defragging, its just that
"defragging" triggered another thing to consider ... fire up Event Viewer
and take a look in the System log. If there are any disk problems (bad
sector, dodgy controller etc) then these will be reported there. Whilst a
disk problem will often manifest itself with an error, if the system can
read from the disk but requires many retries then this will cripple
performance and the only place it will be reported on is in the system event
log. Its unlikely there are any disk problems, but worth a quick look just
incase.
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Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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