vista performance

hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I do a lot
of video converting and file copying(from a external hard drive)also
unzipping rar files, my question is will disabling as much of the vista "eye
candy"as possible make much difference to the speed of these tasks.i am aware
that file conversion is heavy on recsoureses and much will depend on my
laptops specs,i am running vista hp sp1 2gb ram dual core 1.6 processor.I
dont have any complaints about vista and generally it does a good job but can
be a bit sluggish when i am using a lot of rescoureses especialy copy and
paste every thing just about locks up then and it will take anything from
1mins to 1hour to copy a 700mb file depending on the weather while i am
writing this i am unpacking afile that is listed as 15gb in its propertiesand
at the moment it is at 82% after 33mins does this sound about right? any
advice will be appreciated
--
martyb

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:23:07 -0700, marty
<> wrote:

>hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I do a lot
>of video converting and file copying(from a external hard drive)also
>unzipping rar files, my question is will disabling as much of the vista "eye
>candy"as possible make much difference to the speed of these tasks.

I should help a lot. Can't hurt anything to try, right?

You could also add another 2G of RAM if your OS is 32-bit, more if
it's 64-bit.

>i am aware
>that file conversion is heavy on recsoureses and much will depend on my
>laptops specs,i am running vista hp sp1 2gb ram dual core 1.6 processor.I
>dont have any complaints about vista and generally it does a good job but can
>be a bit sluggish when i am using a lot of rescoureses especialy copy and
>paste every thing just about locks up then and it will take anything from
>1mins to 1hour to copy a 700mb file depending on the weather while i am
>writing this i am unpacking afile that is listed as 15gb in its propertiesand
>at the moment it is at 82% after 33mins does this sound about right? any
>advice will be appreciated

marty;862792 Wrote:
> hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I do
> lo
> of video converting and file copying(from a external hard drive)als
> unzipping rar files, my question is will disabling as much of the vist
> "ey
> candy"as possible make much difference to the speed of these tasks.i a
> awar
> that file conversion is heavy on recsoureses and much will depend on m
> laptops specs,i am running vista hp sp1 2gb ram dual core 1.
> processor.
> dont have any complaints about vista and generally it does a good jo
> but ca
> be a bit sluggish when i am using a lot of rescoureses especialy cop
> an
> paste every thing just about locks up then and it will take anythin
> fro
> 1mins to 1hour to copy a 700mb file depending on the weather while i a
> writing this i am unpacking afile that is listed as 15gb in it
> propertiesan
> at the moment it is at 82% after 33mins does this sound about right
> an
> advice will be appreciate
> -
> marty

Marty

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Hello Marty

In addition to Joe's post, you could really see some improvement b
adding more RAM. For what you are doing the more the better, but yo
should have at least 4 GB

Hope this helps
Shaw

marty;862792 Wrote:
> hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I do
> lo
> of video converting and file copying(from a external hard drive)als
> unzipping rar files, my question is will disabling as much of the vist
> "ey
> candy"as possible make much difference to the speed of these tasks.i a
> awar
> that file conversion is heavy on recsoureses and much will depend on m
> laptops specs,i am running vista hp sp1 2gb ram dual core 1.
> processor.
> dont have any complaints about vista and generally it does a good jo
> but ca
> be a bit sluggish when i am using a lot of rescoureses especialy cop
> an
> paste every thing just about locks up then and it will take anythin
> fro
> 1mins to 1hour to copy a 700mb file depending on the weather while i a
> writing this i am unpacking afile that is listed as 15gb in it
> propertiesan
> at the moment it is at 82% after 33mins does this sound about right
> an
> advice will be appreciate
> -
> marty

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hi,thanks for the quick resonse,i am disabling alot of stuff i dont really
need running. i dont think i can add any more ram as my laptop specs say it
is 2gb max ,any idea why that is,i bought it as 1gb and quickly put the other
gb in after a month of using it so i will turn off anything i dont need and
see how much difference it makes ,thanks
--
martyb


"Paul Montgomery" wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:23:07 -0700, marty
> <> wrote:
>
> >hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I do a lot
> >of video converting and file copying(from a external hard drive)also
> >unzipping rar files, my question is will disabling as much of the vista "eye
> >candy"as possible make much difference to the speed of these tasks.
>
> I should help a lot. Can't hurt anything to try, right?
>
> You could also add another 2G of RAM if your OS is 32-bit, more if
> it's 64-bit.
>
> >i am aware
> >that file conversion is heavy on recsoureses and much will depend on my
> >laptops specs,i am running vista hp sp1 2gb ram dual core 1.6 processor.I
> >dont have any complaints about vista and generally it does a good job but can
> >be a bit sluggish when i am using a lot of rescoureses especialy copy and
> >paste every thing just about locks up then and it will take anything from
> >1mins to 1hour to copy a 700mb file depending on the weather while i am
> >writing this i am unpacking afile that is listed as 15gb in its propertiesand
> >at the moment it is at 82% after 33mins does this sound about right? any
> >advice will be appreciated
>

thanks joe i will read up on those links and let you know
--
martyb


".Joe" wrote:

>
> marty;862792 Wrote:
> > hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I do a
> > lot
> > of video converting and file copying(from a external hard drive)also
> > unzipping rar files, my question is will disabling as much of the vista
> > "eye
> > candy"as possible make much difference to the speed of these tasks.i am
> > aware
> > that file conversion is heavy on recsoureses and much will depend on my
> > laptops specs,i am running vista hp sp1 2gb ram dual core 1.6
> > processor.I
> > dont have any complaints about vista and generally it does a good job
> > but can
> > be a bit sluggish when i am using a lot of rescoureses especialy copy
> > and
> > paste every thing just about locks up then and it will take anything
> > from
> > 1mins to 1hour to copy a 700mb file depending on the weather while i am
> > writing this i am unpacking afile that is listed as 15gb in its
> > propertiesand
> > at the moment it is at 82% after 33mins does this sound about right?
> > any
> > advice will be appreciated
> > --
> > martyb
>
> Marty,
>
> This tutorial on our website may help you:
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81...nce-vista.html
>
> Let us know how that works for you.
>
>
> --
> .Joe
>
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>

Your welcome Marty,

It's just how many RAM slots that your motherboard has and support.
That's all. Some motherboards will just support more RAM than others.

Cutting down on how much you have running at one time can help while
you are doing the intense video converting.

Shawn

marty;862813 Wrote:
> hi,thanks for the quick resonse,i am disabling alot of stuff i dont
> really
> need running. i dont think i can add any more ram as my laptop specs
> say it
> is 2gb max ,any idea why that is,i bought it as 1gb and quickly put the
> other
> gb in after a month of using it so i will turn off anything i dont need
> and
> see how much difference it makes ,thanks
> --
> martyb
>
>
> "Paul Montgomery" wrote:
> > > >
> > > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:23:07 -0700, marty
> > > <marty@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> > > > >
> > > > >hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I
> > > do a lot
> > > > >of video converting and file copying(from a external hard drive)also
> > > > >unzipping rar files, my question is will disabling as much of the
> > > vista "eye
> > > > >candy"as possible make much difference to the speed of these tasks.> > > >
> > >
> > > I should help a lot. Can't hurt anything to try, right?
> > >
> > > You could also add another 2G of RAM if your OS is 32-bit, more
> > if
> > > it's 64-bit.
> > >> > > > >
> > > > >i am aware
> > > > >that file conversion is heavy on recsoureses and much will depend on
> > > my
> > > > >laptops specs,i am running vista hp sp1 2gb ram dual core 1.6
> > > processor.I
> > > > >dont have any complaints about vista and generally it does a good
> > > job but can
> > > > >be a bit sluggish when i am using a lot of rescoureses especialy
> > > copy and
> > > > >paste every thing just about locks up then and it will take anything
> > > from
> > > > >1mins to 1hour to copy a 700mb file depending on the weather while i
> > > am
> > > > >writing this i am unpacking afile that is listed as 15gb in its
> > > propertiesand
> > > > >at the moment it is at 82% after 33mins does this sound about right?
> > > any
> > > > >advice will be appreciated> > > >
> > > > >


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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:37:49 -0500, Brink <>
wrote:


> Hello Marty,
>
> In addition to Joe's post, you could really see some improvement by
> adding more RAM. For what you are doing the more the better, but you
> should have at least 4 GB.


Let me make three comments on those two sentences of yours:

1. He talks about video converting and that suggests that more than
2GB will give him a performance improvement, but I would be very
reluctant to say it for sure. "You could really see some improvement"
is a very strong statement that may or may not be right. Although some
people will see better performance with more than 2GBm it is *not*
true that everyone will. "The more the better" is only true up to a
point, and for most people, that point is 2GB.

2. You say "at least 4GB," but that doesn't take into consideration
that he needs 64-bit Windows to be able to use more than 4GB. The
32-bit version (which is what most people have) won't see more than
that.

3. All 32-bit client versions of Windows (not just Vista/XP) have a
4GB address space. That's the theoretical upper limit beyond which you
can not go.

But you can't use the entire 4GB of address space. Even though you
have a 4GB address space, you can only use *around* 3.1GB of RAM.
That's because some of that space is used by hardware and is not
available to the operating system and applications. The amount you can
use varies, depending on what hardware you have installed, but can
range from as little as 2GB to as much as 3.5GB. It's usually around
3.1GB.

Note that the hardware is using the address *space*, not the actual
RAM itself. The rest of the RAM goes unused because there is no
address space to map it too.




> marty;862792 Wrote:
> > hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I do a
> > lot
> > of video converting and file copying(from a external hard drive)also
> > unzipping rar files, my question is will disabling as much of the vista
> > "eye
> > candy"as possible make much difference to the speed of these tasks.i am
> > aware
> > that file conversion is heavy on recsoureses and much will depend on my
> > laptops specs,i am running vista hp sp1 2gb ram dual core 1.6
> > processor.I
> > dont have any complaints about vista and generally it does a good job
> > but can
> > be a bit sluggish when i am using a lot of rescoureses especialy copy
> > and
> > paste every thing just about locks up then and it will take anything
> > from
> > 1mins to 1hour to copy a 700mb file depending on the weather while i am
> > writing this i am unpacking afile that is listed as 15gb in its
> > propertiesand
> > at the moment it is at 82% after 33mins does this sound about right?
> > any
> > advice will be appreciated
> > --
> > martyb
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
> them.*
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thanks brink, i am reading your articles now on increasing hd perfomance
including ext hd my settings were wrong as suggested in your article i have
set them to high perfomance and enabled write caching (havnt restarted yet as
i am going to continue to read the article first) i will post back to let you
all know what difference it made
--
martyb


"Brink" wrote:

>
> Hello Marty,
>
> In addition to Joe's post, you could really see some improvement by
> adding more RAM. For what you are doing the more the better, but you
> should have at least 4 GB.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
>
> marty;862792 Wrote:
> > hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I do a
> > lot
> > of video converting and file copying(from a external hard drive)also
> > unzipping rar files, my question is will disabling as much of the vista
> > "eye
> > candy"as possible make much difference to the speed of these tasks.i am
> > aware
> > that file conversion is heavy on recsoureses and much will depend on my
> > laptops specs,i am running vista hp sp1 2gb ram dual core 1.6
> > processor.I
> > dont have any complaints about vista and generally it does a good job
> > but can
> > be a bit sluggish when i am using a lot of rescoureses especialy copy
> > and
> > paste every thing just about locks up then and it will take anything
> > from
> > 1mins to 1hour to copy a 700mb file depending on the weather while i am
> > writing this i am unpacking afile that is listed as 15gb in its
> > propertiesand
> > at the moment it is at 82% after 33mins does this sound about right?
> > any
> > advice will be appreciated
> > --
> > martyb
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
> them.*
> '*VISTA FORUMS*' > *Please post feedback to help others.*
>

If the external hard drive is USB it could be part of the problem. Some
chipsets generate a lot of interrupts and can use quite a bit of CPU time
during sustained USB operations. I don't think turning off the eye candy
will gain you much if you are not doing anything else during the file
copies. If you are opening, moving, closing windows etc. you may see a
slight benefit if the laptop has onboard graphics. My advice would be to try
some timed experiments and see what happens.

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"marty" <> wrote in message
news:E965D182-6F13-4B24-A245-...
> hi,iwould like a bit of advice regarding the performance of vista.I do a
> lot
> of video converting and file copying(from a external hard drive)also
> unzipping rar files, my question is will disabling as much of the vista
> "eye
> candy"as possible make much difference to the speed of these tasks.i am
> aware
> that file conversion is heavy on recsoureses and much will depend on my
> laptops specs,i am running vista hp sp1 2gb ram dual core 1.6 processor.I
> dont have any complaints about vista and generally it does a good job but
> can
> be a bit sluggish when i am using a lot of rescoureses especialy copy and
> paste every thing just about locks up then and it will take anything from
> 1mins to 1hour to copy a 700mb file depending on the weather while i am
> writing this i am unpacking afile that is listed as 15gb in its
> propertiesand
> at the moment it is at 82% after 33mins does this sound about right? any
> advice will be appreciated
> --
> martyb