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Hi atonement,
As a first step you try uninstalling unwanted programs and also stopping unnessary startup programs · Disk cleanup Start – Programs – Accessories – system tools – disk clean · Error Checking Right click on drive – properties – tools tab – Error checking · Virtual Memory Note: Please backup registry before doing this. Run – Regedit- HKEY_Local_MACHINE- system – currentcontrolset – control- session manager – click on Memory management - Right click on Clearpagefileat shutdown file - Modify value to "1" · Advance system settings Run – sysdm.cpl – advance tab Try Stop Error reporting option error reporting tab Decrease visual performance thru performance option . Disable Automatic restart option thru startup and recover option. Regards Chris Please reply at your convenience. ![]() |
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I had been looking for a registry optimiser but I was a bit worried about messing up my laptop. |
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Kind regards, Russ Last edited by Opus; 06. Jun 2010 at 07:13 AM. Reason: misspelling |
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As a leading economist has it, "There are no solutions, only trade-offs." (Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics) The trade-off here is to gain a modest and transient improvement in system performance--over more usual system maintenance methods--at the expense of a great deal of time and effort. Moreover, the cost of the acquisition of the knowledge to do this effenciently is much greater than the average user could make pay off. As the same famous economist says, "Knowledge is not free." (Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions) I strongly discourage average users from doing routine O/S reinstallation because it is not a useful trade-off for them. Please see this post of mine on this topic. Kind regards, Opus |
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We can certainly agree to disagree, but reinstalling an O/S after 6 years is not a bad idea at all. However, an even better idea is to make image backups so that you never do have to do a complete reinstall. For example, I just reformatted my HD (that had XP on it) and installed Windows 7 (64-bit). After completing all the available windows updates, I did a complete image backup. Theoretically, I will never had to do a complete reinstall of Windows 7 again; I can just use my image backup. After installing my "keeper" programs and documents (from my external HD); I did another image backup. For those who do not have image backups (but do backup their documents, pictures, etc.), a O/S reinstall after 6 years is a very viable solution (and a good idea, in my opinion) if they are having issues with their computer.
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I have deleted my page file to start a new page file from scratch. First I will create a restore point. I just do this when ever I attempt a major tweak. Anway. I go to system properties - advanced - performance settings - advanced at lower right click change and then click on no pagefile. I then delete my page file and reboot. I then go back through the for-mentioned process and then click on system manage. this will create a new page file after which I will optimize about once a week. I have done this twice in 5 years when experiencing very long boot times. I only do this when I have exhausted all other options. It so far has not broke my system. It has however much improved boot times. Comments are welcome ![]() Cheers Wdhpr |
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I usually set PageDefrag to run on next startup just prior to running NTREGOPT which requires a restart to effect it's changes. Job done. Quote:
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I too use ERUNT. Great tool and has been around for a long time. The tweaking guide is also worth the read. ![]() As I said I recreated my pagefile after I exhausted other options first. Which included defragging the pagefile. After reading a few articles on the subject. I found that shut downs such as those done by power loss can corrupt the pagefile. Indeed the rare times I did recreate my pagefile It seemed to correct boot times after all other efforts failed. Cheers Wdhpr |
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Useful info, cheers! ![]() |
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