This is a Gateway T-1616 notebook with the windows settings optimized for "performance" and all of the pre-installed software removed (except device drivers)



IT NEVER STOPS READING THE HARD DISK.

9/26/2008 12:31:49 PM

i'd be willing to guess windows search is indexing your drive

9/26/2008 12:35:49 PM

fuck

windows

search

9/26/2008 12:36:20 PM

MSCONFIG

9/26/2008 12:59:15 PM

Msconfig has already been checked and all non-essentials are removed from startup. (note my system tray) Out of the box from gateway it took the whole right side of the screen up.

I disabled auto update downloads thinking that was the problem and it wasnt.

Is there a way to make the indexing only occur when it is on screen saver or something???

It has Vista with 1gb of ram and I was thinking it could be memory paging but even if I am not doing anything the HD light is still on.

9/26/2008 1:05:32 PM

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"It has Vista with 1gb of ram"

well, that is a pretty light amount of memory to use with vista (imo)


for troubleshooting, see if the indexing service is running (if so disable), disable any antivirus/antispyware. turn off vista visual crap like aero:
http://www.technixupdate.com/turn-off-some-visual-effects-to-make-vista-more-faster-and-quick-inoperations/
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9114106

what "essentials" are left checked in the msconfig?

in the end though, if this is your pc (vs a girls who might not use it much) you really need 2gb in there

9/26/2008 1:31:27 PM

vista with 1gb of ram is pretty painful

i'd invest in another gb of ram... part of it is probably due to windows search, but a lot of it is probably the pagefile. vista is a memory hog.

9/26/2008 1:31:39 PM

I dunno, on Server 08, just the services use over a GB of RAM. I had Vista business on my old laptop and with all non-essential services turned off it still used about 500MB of RAM without any user applications running.

9/26/2008 2:30:00 PM

services.msc
disable indexing service
disable google desktop

uninstall google desktop
regedit
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
delete a ton of shit you don't need.

reboot

9/26/2008 3:16:46 PM

NEED MOAR RAMZ

9/26/2008 10:57:47 PM

I cant believe no one's asked the real question.

Is your computer ACTUALLY slow, or are you just freaking out because the indexing service is working like crazy in the background? Everyone is right, 2gb is the sweetspot, but even at 1gb, you shouldn't see any noticeable perf impact from indexing.

Whats the deal?

9/27/2008 12:44:15 AM

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"but even at 1gb, you shouldn't see any noticeable perf impact from indexing."

are you really that brainwashed?

9/27/2008 1:12:44 AM

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"This is a Gateway T-1616 notebook"

9/27/2008 4:09:34 PM

could I remove one of the chips and put this in and have 2.5 GB ram?

http://www.universalmemory.com/1085U47033.htm

That seems to be the most economical solution. I would go ahead and put 4gb in but this one already has had the LCD broken so it's pretty much totaled. I have just been using it for a desktop.

9/28/2008 12:08:31 PM

oh snap

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-GATEWAY-T-1616-14-1-WXGA-LAPTOP-LCD-SCREEN_W0QQitemZ200251422029QQcmdZViewItem

maybe I can fix it?

9/28/2008 12:16:06 PM

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"are you really that brainwashed?"

You didn't answer the question.

I turned off indexing on my machine, but that was due to the CPU spikes, not the memory usage. Vista uses ALL of your available memory most of the time no matter how much you have, or what services are running. So no, I'm not brainwashed. Are you paranoid?

9/29/2008 4:08:59 PM

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"Vista uses ALL of your available memory most of the time"

depends on what your definition of the word "uses" is

superfetch will release memory it's using as needed

9/29/2008 4:41:53 PM