As a follow-up:
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/news.aspx?CIaNID=17147
--- On Wednesday, November 24, 2004 4:11 PM, Jochem van Dieten scribed: ---
>
> Marlon Moyer wrote:
>> I've had my laptop for around 8 months now and winxp seems to be
>> dragging now. I used to format my win98 box every six mo
Thank you, Kevin and Nick, for your replies.
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And if you really want to be geeky, just buy a crap ton of ram and don't
have any swap at all.
-Original Message-
From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 10:16 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Time to format?
If you consider that putting the sw
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:41:55 -0500, Won Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When you re-format do you partition your drives? I usually have a
> partition SYSTEM, APPS, DATA, and SWAP. I read somewhere that having
> the SYSTEM and SWAP parition on different physical drives would enhance
> performanc
always very careful about the junk I install, making sure that it
doesn't keep something running in the background.
-Original Message-
From: Marlon Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 9:04 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Time to format?
Exactly, Operating
It can be a performance boost, but if you put your swap on a substandard
hard drive then you are wasting your time.
-Original Message-
From: Won Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:42 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Time to format?
Marlon Moyer wrote:
> I
Marlon Moyer wrote:
> I've had my laptop for around 8 months now and winxp seems to be dragging
> now. I used to format my win98 box every six months or so to regain speed.
> Is it time to do this with winxp. Are they any guide for slimming down the
> registry and getting winxp back to that fresh
Wednesday, November 24, 2004 3:11 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Time to format?
>
> Marlon Moyer wrote:
> > I've had my laptop for around 8 months now and winxp seems to be
> dragging
> > now. I used to format my win98 box every six months or so to regain
>
ommunity
> Subject: Re: Time to format?
>
> "Operating System Decay"
>
> At 01:12 PM 11/24/2004, you wrote:
> >I've had my laptop for around 8 months now and winxp seems to be
> dragging
> >now. I used to format my win98 box every six months or so to
ha-ha!
>-Original Message-
>From: Jochem van Dieten
>
>http://www.sans.org/rr/papers/index.php?id=1298
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"Operating System Decay"
At 01:12 PM 11/24/2004, you wrote:
>I've had my laptop for around 8 months now and winxp seems to be dragging
>now. I used to format my win98 box every six months or so to regain speed.
>Is it time to do this with winxp. Are they any guide for slimming down the
>registry
Marlon Moyer wrote:
> I've had my laptop for around 8 months now and winxp seems to be dragging
> now. I used to format my win98 box every six months or so to regain speed.
> Is it time to do this with winxp. Are they any guide for slimming down the
> registry and getting winxp back to that fresh
I only wish I could!!! :)
Maybe when they get WINE perfected, but until then...
Marlon
Haggerty, Mike wrote:
>Marlon -
>
>Neither - Slackware with the Gnome desktop!
>
>M
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Marlon Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 11:29 AM
>
Marlon -
Neither - Slackware with the Gnome desktop!
M
-Original Message-
From: Marlon Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 11:29 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Time to format
Ok, it's been around 9-12 months since my last format of my machine.
WinXp is runni
when was the last time your ran spybot or another spy ware checker...
those little reg entries & cookies can have a combinative affect on performance
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I use win 2 K exclusively at home. Win XP has a much higher overhead. Also
I know I have all the drivers I need, doesn't sound like this is a problem
for you though.
Tim
-Original Message-
From: Marlon Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 11:29 AM
To: CF-Communi
I suggest you disable suspend and hibernation. This is recommended by
Microsoft.
1. Run Chkdisk and check the box (detect errors)
2. Run the defrag utility on the drive Probably good to run it twice.
3. Obtain from Microsoft and run the utility "Regclean.exe) which will clean up
the registry.
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