how fast is your wixp sp2?

[BehindEnemyLines]

Does having 564 fonts slow the startup down? I wrote earlier mine takes about 4+ minutes for a usuable desktop. The fonts are mostly for me to type in non-English characters.

 

[Rottie]

Originally posted by: BehindEnemyLines
Does having 564 fonts slow the startup down? I wrote earlier mine takes about 4+ minutes for a usuable desktop. The fonts are mostly for me to type in non-English characters.

yes with so many fonts will slow PC down.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Arkaign
Aye, if Google Desktop Search is useful to you, I yield easily

If you don't need it, it should be the first thing to go however.

I've had complaints from users regarding poor system performance, and quite often, just by removing GDS alone .. the system returns to normal. Bug? I'm not sure, haven't spent that much time dealing with it.

Personally, I have a streamlined folder system for my data, and store email in similar fashion. Takes me less than 5 seconds to launch any app/file I want, and probably less than 15 seconds to locate a particular email.

Admittedly, GDS will help in situations where you have a vast volume of email. And yes, Outlook's built-in search is atrocious.

And at least I don't CAPS LOCK MY ENTIRE POSTS

I think pretty much anyone here that is computer saavy is using an organized folder structure for data and the same for email. I've got years worth of email (yes, worth keeping) and 60gigs in My Docs (not counting mp3s, vhds, ISOs and other naturally big stuff). Most of the time I do just go where I need to go. But, if I have to search it's ridiculous. That's where desktop search engines come in. They PRE-search your drive so when you go to search it's instant.

A little known thing: Office 2007's outlook leverages a desktop search engine already so the slow searches of 2003 are gone now.

If your desktop search is slowing your box down then it either has a bug or is not configured correctly. At boot, or during the day, you should not even be able to tell it's installed.

I agree if you are having slow boot problems you should temporarily disable it. If it turns out to be the culprit, fix it. If not, flip it back on.

 

[postmortemIA]

Get pair of Raptors and stop complaining.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
Get pair of Raptors and stop complaining.

Who?

 

[Rottie]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
Get pair of Raptors and stop complaining.

can you buy one for me and I won't complain?

 

[postmortemIA]

Well too fast cpu and two large but slow drives, money could have been arranged better.

At least put 'em in RAID0

 

[batmang]

turning off system restore and removing stuff that boots via msconfig has always made my boot ups faster. i really hate system restore btw.

 

[Tweakin]

Originally posted by: networkman
Why would you want to turn your PC off?!? Just leave it on and use the spare cpu cycles for any number of different Disitributed Computing projects that TeAm AnandTech has participants in.

The days of leaving your system on all the time are over in most parts of the country due to increased Electrical Bills. I used to keep both of my systems on, and since I started to leave them off during the day and night...my last bill was down...almost $40. It could be other things also, but I'm sure my rigs suck some serious wattage...

Oops...forgot about the OP...I'm in the desktop in about 7 seconds...no zone alarm or google.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: Tweakin
The days of leaving your system on all the time are over in most parts of the country due to increased Electrical Bills. I used to keep both of my systems on, and since I started to leave them off during the day and night...my last bill was down...almost $40. It could be other things also, but I'm sure my rigs suck some serious wattage...

QFT I noticed similar savings now that I turn both of my pc's off when I am away.

 

[Rottie]

now windows xp corrupted so i had to clean install after format sure it was lighting FAAAST I guess it cleaned up everything when i upgraded my cpu. I feel like my pc is fast than core 2 duo

 

[SparkyJJO]

After punching in my password it takes a little while to get to my desktop. Not sure why, I did reformat once and it fixed it but then the slowdown came back. No idea why, something somewhere is causing it. Most likely some windows update.

Once it has logged in and everything it is fast.

Originally posted by: batmang
turning off system restore and removing stuff that boots via msconfig has always made my boot ups faster. i really hate system restore btw.

System restore helped me once, my old system had an issue, used system restore, and I was back and running. I have found it useful on a few occasions.

 

[Rottie]

system restore will lower system overall

 

[Markbnj]

by the way Windows Defender never find anything wrong so I think it is useless.

Windows Defender probably is useless if you have very little chance of getting bad malware, i.e. you don't surf porn and you don't have kids surfing free icon and music video sites.

On the other hand, if either of those is true then Defender does a good job. In fact it was the only tool that could get ABetterInternet.Aurora off our kitchen computer after one of our kids stumbled on it somewhere.

On the question of power, I bet many of the rigs people in this forum have draw a kilowatt or better. That's pretty serious juice when the thing is running all day. I leave mine on for stress reasons, but now that I think about it, might be worth changing the behavior for a month to see what happens.