Got My Zippy Computer Back
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Toolbars are one of the first things that get uninstalled when someone gives me a computer to "fix up" - I have no idea why they think that the more toolbars they install the better their computer will be :doh:
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Yeah... I've seen some PCs that have so many toolbars installed that one can hardly see the screen area. Pick a favorite, and be done with it - that's my advice to most. But it's rarely followed... :sigh:
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For months my new Win7 PC has been dragging... it's been driving me crazy. Tonight I uninstalled the Bing ToolBar and everything by Apple, and it's running smooth and fast once again. I'm a very happy camper right now! :-D We'll just have to see how long that lasts...:suss:
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I've always found the biggest slowdown "feature" of Windows to be the amount of unnecessary cr@p they store in the system directories. What on Earth gave them the idea, for example, that storing thousands (literally) of installed updates as objects in the system dir would be a good thing? If you slow down reads of the system dir, you slow down absolutely-****in'-everything! Dumping all updates in a single subdir (so you don't lose them, and can put them back when required -- which is never) usually gives as much of a boost as adding another core to your processor.
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Yeah... I've seen some PCs that have so many toolbars installed that one can hardly see the screen area. Pick a favorite, and be done with it - that's my advice to most. But it's rarely followed... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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For months my new Win7 PC has been dragging... it's been driving me crazy. Tonight I uninstalled the Bing ToolBar and everything by Apple, and it's running smooth and fast once again. I'm a very happy camper right now! :-D We'll just have to see how long that lasts...:suss:
Will Rogers never met me.
Personally if i get a buggy win machine, first i would replace it with a linux ;)
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For months my new Win7 PC has been dragging... it's been driving me crazy. Tonight I uninstalled the Bing ToolBar and everything by Apple, and it's running smooth and fast once again. I'm a very happy camper right now! :-D We'll just have to see how long that lasts...:suss:
Will Rogers never met me.
Not the same thing but I uninstalled a couple of apps on my Android phone and voila! it doesn't crash anymore.
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For months my new Win7 PC has been dragging... it's been driving me crazy. Tonight I uninstalled the Bing ToolBar and everything by Apple, and it's running smooth and fast once again. I'm a very happy camper right now! :-D We'll just have to see how long that lasts...:suss:
Will Rogers never met me.
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This is the first step to uninstal the useless BHO, yeah, you called that toolbars.Recommand use other browsers,suck as FireFox, Chrome, Opera etc. :^) I am not a genius, but shed more sweat!
Aric Green wrote:
suck as FireFox
Spot on.
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I've always found the biggest slowdown "feature" of Windows to be the amount of unnecessary cr@p they store in the system directories. What on Earth gave them the idea, for example, that storing thousands (literally) of installed updates as objects in the system dir would be a good thing? If you slow down reads of the system dir, you slow down absolutely-****in'-everything! Dumping all updates in a single subdir (so you don't lose them, and can put them back when required -- which is never) usually gives as much of a boost as adding another core to your processor.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Hi Mark, Just curious, how would you detect which of the stored installed updates (I'm assuming dll's) could be safely put in another directory: i.e., they are not in use by the major applications you are using ? Happy Holidays ! best, Bill
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Another thing to make your box more snappy is to disable the Windows Search service and turn off the indexing. Also, if you're not using IPV6 on your network, disable that too.
DaveX86 wrote:
Another thing to make your box more snappy is to disable the Windows Search service and turn off the indexing.
And, may I add to that definite speed-up, because Win Search is slow as a lame dog, that installing the freeware Agent Ransack, which is greyhound-on-steroids fast, will truly make you wonder how it's possible that Win Search could possibly be as sluggish as it is. Happy Holidays, best, Bill
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle
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Hi Mark, Just curious, how would you detect which of the stored installed updates (I'm assuming dll's) could be safely put in another directory: i.e., they are not in use by the major applications you are using ? Happy Holidays ! best, Bill
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle
It's only the installation files, which are only needed if you decide to uninstall the updates (so put them all back before running System Restore, for example). I've just had a very quick look on Win 7, and it seems that they took my advice (I complained about this pre-Vista), and now put them in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution (which is not part of any path/look-in env var). The sys32 and sys64 dirs still contain well over 2,000 files each, though, so if you've got four cores reading the dirs every time PATH is called, they'll act almost like they only had 500 files each. Not exactly what I would call the best use of the technology.
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