Speed up your laptop
Speed up your laptop
For those of you using laptop computers here is a harmless tip that may send you into warp speed.If it seems slow and sluggish try this,Go into the control panel and locate the POWER OPTIONS (or similar) tab.Double click on it and when it opens you'll notice 3 options. Most likely it is on the top one. If you look down you'll see POWER SAVER and then a HIGH PERFORMANCE tab, click on this one.This simple move made a huge difference for both my and my wife's laptops.We most often have them plugged in so a little power sapping is no big deal. If you are a battery user you probably don't want to do this.Let me know if it makes a differenceDave
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Re: Speed up your laptop (djkeev)
you usually can set two different profiles. one for plugged in, and one for battery power.
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Re: (hskater26)
Quote, originally posted by hskater26 »no love for the mac huh? forgot my mac always runs fast nevermind don't make me tell your woman to give you a punch in the arm from me LOL showoff
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Re: (hskater26)
Quote, originally posted by hskater26 »no love for the mac huh? forgot my mac always runs fast nevermind Hey Macs have a similar setting too as I am sure you are aware, you just have to click on the little battery/charging icon (at least on my MacBook)
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Re: (hskater26)
Quote, originally posted by hskater26 »no love for the mac huh? forgot my mac always runs fast nevermind you should see my laptop. even with a forced 10 second delay it's super fast. as for Intel users, there are actually a lot more things you can do to speed up the whole computer, but that's another thread, another time, and a lot of work. once had my laptop go from logged in and working to full restart and back logged into a user in about 30 seconds. it was sick. too bad i've since made lots of changes with software, operating systems (yes plural), and i haven't cleaned her up again.
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Re: (tribalman)
Quote, originally posted by tribalman »you should see my laptop. even with a forced 10 second delay it's super fast. as for Intel users, there are actually a lot more things you can do to speed up the whole computer, but that's another thread, another time, and a lot of work. once had my laptop go from logged in and working to full restart and back logged into a user in about 30 seconds. it was sick. too bad i've since made lots of changes with software, operating systems (yes plural), and i haven't cleaned her up again. Hey, we've got the time to read it if you've got the time to share your knowledge and tips with us! Advice is always welcome. To most of us computers are a wonderful tool / toy BUT a tad frustrating and not very well understood.Dave
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Re: (djkeev)
Quote, originally posted by djkeev »Hey, we've got the time to read it if you've got the time to share your knowledge and tips with us! Advice is always welcome. To most of us computers are a wonderful tool / toy BUT a tad frustrating and not very well understood.Dave there is the usual run msconfig.exe and uncheck everything that doesn't need to be running at startup. java does not need to start. same with adobe. these two can net you a faster boot and also lower your overhead. but before you go unchecking things, google them just to be sure they aren't a wireless driver or other important component. most of the other stuff i did i got from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Windows-...fkmr1 also, while not typically recommended, turn off virus scanners. they take up a lot of resources. some of the tricky viruses and malware are programmed to avoid, disable, or be hidden by the scanners.
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