Re: PAGEFILE.SYS
  By: Jean Parrot to Paul Quinn on Mon Apr 23 2012 09:59 am

 > Your diatribe about page-file had me thinking. Yes, a Thinkpad. This is my 
 > daughter`s and it is SLOW. She had it set to laptop in the power dialog and 
 > that cuts the CPU by 50%, it is always on the grid and there is no need to h
 > this set, I now have it at "desktop" and the CPU is doing fine.

I'm a Thinkpad fan; my primary system is a circa-2006 Thinkpad T43. I've gotten
by just fine with it, but it does need a little tweaking to keep up. That's
fine, I like tweaking my system.

What kind of system does your daughter have?

My hints:

1. Buy as much memory as it'll take - I read you bumped the system up to 2GB,
which makes a big difference.

2. Defrag your hard disk often. I use an older open-source defrag called
JKDEFRAG, which does a much better job than the built-in defrag.

3. Run MSCONFIG, and disable any services or startup programs you don't need.

4. Lenovo has a piece of software called System Update that'll update all of
your drivers for you - very cool. Later CPUs have something called PowerStep
that can dynamically change the CPU speed based on demand.

5. I've been using Avast! antivirus - it's free, and seems to take less system
resources than AVG MSE or Symantec Endpoint Protection.

6. Older hard drives can be slow. My T43 originally came with a 40GB 4200 RPM
drive. I replaced it with a 80GB 7200 RPM drive, and it's a lot snappier. The
drive cache is bigger, and the drive spins almost twice as fast, making seek
operations quicker. Make sure you find a drive compatible with Thinkpads, as a
non-certified drive with pop up an error when you boot. Thinkpads have a
feature called "Active Protection System" which parks the heads
when the drive
is in motion, so it'll park the heads if you drop it. Some hard drives don't
have the features to make this work.


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