I have a lenovo r61 and it is running pretty slow on 1gb I am upgrading to 2gb soon but I want to make it faster, if I turn off some of Windows vista's services will it make it faster? and what should i disable?
Any help would be apreiciated!
bondi007 0 Posting Pro in Training
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
in some cases turning off "superfetch" can increase peformance substantially. in other cases it can reduce it. try it
Infarction 503 Posting Virtuoso
AFAICT, most of the services running take relatively little memory. Vista is pretty aggressive in it's use of memory though, so upgrading to 2GB should make a big difference.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
superfetch is the thing that caches all your memory
having stuff cached can be faster but it makes bootin g and logging in slow as hell
bondi007 0 Posting Pro in Training
superfetch, what does this actually do?
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
caches stuff you use a lot into RAM
bondi007 0 Posting Pro in Training
it hasn't made much of a difference, is they anyway I can make it faster?
bondi007 0 Posting Pro in Training
what will happen if I turn off all the services?
Infarction 503 Posting Virtuoso
Things might start to break (e.g. Windows logon service). Seriously, wait and see what the new RAM does.
bobbyraw 16 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
how much ram you have on the system , how many programs do you have starting with windows. (items in the task bar by the clock) as for turning off services this will not make a drastic improvement in speed. follow infarction advices get more memory
bondi007 0 Posting Pro in Training
I have been in MSCONFIG and tunred everything off apart from AVG 7.5 so I dont think that is a problem and I only got a few programs like macromedia studio 8 and camtasia studio and office 07
And I have 1gb of ram :(
Infarction 503 Posting Virtuoso
I'm guessing part of the problem is that you're running some memory intensive programs. Most services take relatively little memory (see attached), except some take more if it's available (like the window manager, dwm.exe, for example). I'm pretty sure Macromedia Studio takes a good chunk and I'd guess the same for the other studio. Office is probably a little bit less but still uses a bit. Turning off some services may help, but pinching 4MB processes won't make much difference.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
exactly.
best way is to just het 1gb more ram
on 2gb my lenovo c200 runs blazingly fast
bondi007 0 Posting Pro in Training
Well I will get the memory soon!
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