Speed

Has anyone got any good tips for making my Dell go faster. It seem
quite sluggish for a machine with a quad core processo

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dje

Here are some tips:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81...sta.html?ltr=S
But don't expect any wonders. I have a Dell with a Q6600 and was also
quite disappointed about the speed. But after all, it is only a 2.4 GHz
processor and Vista as well as many programs do not make good use of the
4 cores.
I am now going to install Windows7 and an SSD on it. Will see how that
goes. On my duo core HP, the SSD made a big difference.


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whs

running a q6600 and a ssd on my win7 machine screamin fast and rock solid!!
only scores a 7.4 on the WEI though I used to have Vista business 64 and it
was also extremely fast. opening programs is like changing channels it is
that fast!

"whs" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Here are some tips:
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81...sta.html?ltr=S
> But don't expect any wonders. I have a Dell with a Q6600 and was also
> quite disappointed about the speed. But after all, it is only a 2.4 GHz
> processor and Vista as well as many programs do not make good use of the
> 4 cores.
> I am now going to install Windows7 and an SSD on it. Will see how that
> goes. On my duo core HP, the SSD made a big difference.
>
>
> --
> whs

Here's one of my YouTube videos demonstrating it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry-VewFgek

Hope it works for you

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Antrikshy

I got a 30% speed improvement by paying Dell $130 for their tech support to
manually remove a virus that got through my Norton 360, and to give my
laptop a tune-up. I watched the tech guy removing lots of files in places I
didn't know existed. I think some of the files were in a win32
subdirectory.

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=...=hp-pvdt&sao=1

"dje" wrote:

>
> Has anyone got any good tips for making my Dell go faster. It seems
> quite sluggish for a machine with a quad core processor
>
>
> --
> dje
> .
>

I thought the WEI range was up to 5.9?
"Drew" <> wrote in message
news:OeH$...
> running a q6600 and a ssd on my win7 machine screamin fast and rock
> solid!! only scores a 7.4 on the WEI though I used to have Vista business
> 64 and it was also extremely fast. opening programs is like changing
> channels it is that fast!
>
> "whs" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> Here are some tips:
>> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81...sta.html?ltr=S
>> But don't expect any wonders. I have a Dell with a Q6600 and was also
>> quite disappointed about the speed. But after all, it is only a 2.4 GHz
>> processor and Vista as well as many programs do not make good use of the
>> 4 cores.
>> I am now going to install Windows7 and an SSD on it. Will see how that
>> goes. On my duo core HP, the SSD made a big difference.
>>
>>
>> --
>> whs
>

Not on Win 7.. as windows systems evolve so will the wei the upper limit is
now 7.9 on Windows 7

"iluv my kitties and family" <> wrote in message
news:ODIa#...
> I thought the WEI range was up to 5.9?
> "Drew" <> wrote in message
> news:OeH$...
>> running a q6600 and a ssd on my win7 machine screamin fast and rock
>> solid!! only scores a 7.4 on the WEI though I used to have Vista business
>> 64 and it was also extremely fast. opening programs is like changing
>> channels it is that fast!
>>
>> "whs" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>>
>>> Here are some tips:
>>> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81...sta.html?ltr=S
>>> But don't expect any wonders. I have a Dell with a Q6600 and was also
>>> quite disappointed about the speed. But after all, it is only a 2.4 GHz
>>> processor and Vista as well as many programs do not make good use of the
>>> 4 cores.
>>> I am now going to install Windows7 and an SSD on it. Will see how that
>>> goes. On my duo core HP, the SSD made a big difference.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> whs
>>
>