Well, after much sweating and huffing and puffing, I now have a clean
install with a 100Gb partition dedicated to music.
It was not easy I will say that! Perhaps a driver CD would have helped!
Oh well, OH's laptop came into play and all is well.
Gradually getting necessary programs reinstalled
thurstongarden;371920 Wrote:
I think having my music on a clean partition will save a lot of time in
the future
This is a good idea, but it's probably not contributing to your long
start times because music isn't accessed on startup.
What does affect startup is all the useless crap that Dell
Howard Passman;371992 Wrote:
I get the feeling you are trying to stay very small relative tot he
footprint..
It has nothing to do with being a tight Scotsman, more the fact that
the fit-pc only draws 7W and can therefore be always on, and have a
totty wee -Carbon- Footprint :-)
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thurstongarden;371920 Wrote:
OK - the nice people at Dell are sending me an OS disk. They also
emailed me a link on reinstalling and creating a partition, so it's all
guns blazing come the holidays!
Best startup time I can get down to is 7 mins, a vast improvement on
15, but 2 or 3 mins
thurstongarden;372028 Wrote:
It has nothing to do with being a tight Scotsman, more the fact that the
fit-pc only draws 7W and can therefore be always on, and have a totty
wee -Carbon- Footprint :-)
No, that wasn't a comment on being a Scotsman :-) I actually thought
you were trying to keep
Fit-pc plus 160Gb HD would probably run at £300 delivered. Do I/don't
I?
Can I have Ubuntu on the fit-pc and have it talk to my XP laptop on the
network?
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thurstongarden;371944 Wrote:
Fit-pc plus 160Gb HD would probably run at £300 delivered. Do I/don't
I?
Can I have Ubuntu on the fit-pc and have it talk to my XP laptop on the
network?
I would think you could, but I'm not the guy to ask on that. You could
use XP on the Fit-PC if it won't
My best advice for clean installing Windows is to have another computer
available with internet access. Then if you run in to trouble you can
Google for help, drivers, or whatever you need. Second tip would be to
image the drive after the deed is done and things are running how you
like them, so
OK - the nice people at Dell are sending me an OS disk. They also
emailed me a link on reinstalling and creating a partition, so it's all
guns blazing come the holidays!
Best startup time I can get down to is 7 mins, a vast improvement on
15, but 2 or 3 mins is probably the norm. I think having
thurstongarden;371935 Wrote:
Howard
It appears the Vostro 1500 has a single HD bay.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/139444/dell-vostro-dual-hard-drives-vista-/
I think you are right about having the music on a separate disk
altogether - now I am thinking, should I spend a little of my
Howard
It appears the Vostro 1500 has a single HD bay.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/139444/dell-vostro-dual-hard-drives-vista-/
I think you are right about having the music on a separate disk
altogether - now I am thinking, should I spend a little of my Xmas
bonus on a fit-pc, upgrade the
thurstongarden;371390 Wrote:
OK, although I seem to have hijacked my own thread about start-up times
rather than creating a partition, it's all massively helpful.
So - no malware, clean antivirus scan, no cache/temp etc, down to 14
startup items and 42 processes running. Startup time is
OK, although I seem to have hijacked my own thread about start-up times
rather than creating a partition, it's all massively helpful.
So - no malware, clean antivirus scan, no cache/temp etc, down to 14
startup items and 42 processes running. Startup time is reduced to,
wait for it 10 mins
MeSue;370566 Wrote:
I personally just don't feel that anyone should profit from viruses.
What incentive do they have to really fight them, then?
Do you go to a doctor or pharmacist when you're sick? Do you pay them?
Do they therefore have no incentive to fight diseases and cure people?
Do you
thurstongarden;370418 Wrote:
I never considered that the FLAC files were dragging the startup time
down - but tried a defrag last week and I gave up after 14 hours and
23%! This is what brought me to the idea of creating a partition. Looks
like it's a winner when I do the back up and
Dogberry2;370889 Wrote:
Do you go to a doctor or pharmacist when you're sick? Do you pay them?
Do they therefore have no incentive to fight diseases and cure people?
Do you pay state or municipal taxes for a local police force? Do they
not thereby profit from crime? Do they still have an
Mark Lanctot;370906 Wrote:
But FLACs wouldn't generally tend to fragment. They get written once
and then are generally not touched.
It's not a bad idea to put them on a separate partition (even better to
put them on a separate drive) but you will probably find that they don't
fragment
thurstongarden;369944 Wrote:
My Dell Vostro 1500 is currently taking about 15 minutes to boot up. I
plan during the Christmas break to do a full reinstall and thought that
this might be a good time to create a partition for my FLAC files -
currently 65Gb, but likely to grow slowly.
Is
Thanks for the input chaps and chapesses. Unsure of how to do multiple
quotes, I will add my replies:
1. I might well be able to put in a second drive, but it's a works
laptop so I don't really want to.
2. No, I won't be stopping at 65Gb. That's me just re-ripped all my
CD's having previously
thurstongarden;370418 Wrote:
Thanks for the input chaps and chapesses. Unsure of how to do multiple
quotes, I will add my replies:
1. I might well be able to put in a second drive, but it's a works
laptop so I don't really want to.
2. No, I won't be stopping at 65Gb. That's me just
Cheers Howard.
56 processes running. I know our IT bod would complain about me having
Rainlendar, Rainmeter and ObjectDock running to tweak my desktop (the
fad might well pass soon though).
There's actually only 1 SC running - it was my pasting my screen grabs
that was wonky!
Of to look at
thurstongarden;370490 Wrote:
Cheers Howard.
56 processes running. I know our IT bod would complain about me having
Rainlendar, Rainmeter and ObjectDock running to tweak my desktop (the
fad might well pass soon though).
There's actually only 1 SC running - it was my pasting my screen
Malwarebytes is chugging away!
I got all excited about ALL USERS startup items... but it only has a
1kb SC shortcut in it.
Is it the actual startup folder that needs cleaned, or the programs
one? Startup is clean but programs (below) aint!
Ta.
thurstongarden;370501 Wrote:
Malwarebytes is chugging away!
I got all excited about ALL USERS startup items... but it only has a
1kb SC shortcut in it.
Is it the actual startup folder that needs cleaned, or the programs
one? Startup is clean but programs (below) aint!
Ta.
Just the
I'd get rid of the objectdock stuff and zone alarm. Personally, I find
the firewall and malware detection provided with Windows to be just
fine. It's already there and most software is already designed to work
seamlessly with it. I just supplement it with the free anti-virus from
Avira. This is
MeSue;370526 Wrote:
I'd get rid of the objectdock stuff and zone alarm. Personally, I find
the firewall and malware detection provided with Windows to be just
fine. It's already there and most software is already designed to work
seamlessly with it. I just supplement it with the free
OK - Malwarebytes cam up completely clean. Cookies and temps very few -
I run CCleaner regularly.
I think ZoneAlarm will be binned tomorrow and look at rain stuff and
object dock, both trying to emulate Vista desktop. Time to bin them!
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Howard Passman;370543 Wrote:
I like Kaspersky best, which comes from using their scan engines on my
virus appliances at work. TrendMicro works well also, but not as much
in the background as Kaspersky. There are some decent free scanners,
but almost always they fall by the wayside and in
My Dell Vostro 1500 is currently taking about 15 minutes to boot up. I
plan during the Christmas break to do a full reinstall and thought that
this might be a good time to create a partition for my FLAC files -
currently 65Gb, but likely to grow slowly.
Is this a good idea, and if so, any tips
thurstongarden;369944 Wrote:
My Dell Vostro 1500 is currently taking about 15 minutes to boot up. I
plan during the Christmas break to do a full reinstall and thought that
this might be a good time to create a partition for my FLAC files -
currently 65Gb, but likely to grow slowly.
Is
Howard Passman;369996 Wrote:
I believe any version of the Vostro has room for a second drive. I
would install a seperate drive for your music rather than create a
second partition. That way the OS and software can be backed up and
defraged seperate from your music files.
I don't agree,
funkstar;370029 Wrote:
I don't agree, with only 65GB of Flacs there isn't really much need for
a second drive, in my opinion of course.
Partitioning the drive will let you do all that without the cost of
adding another drive.
You dare question me!! :-) Totally kidding. Anyway, if he's
Yeah, something is very wrong with your system and it likely has little
to do with the storage of your Flac library.
One thing that a separate OS partition gives you is the ability to
reinstall the OS and applications without affecting your data. Not
something to be taken lightly, and since the
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