Re: cleaning up my pc to speed up performance?
Hi.
To be honest I disabled all Toshiba stuff as I didn't need it running all the time
persistence doesn't need to be on though ians.
On that note
I wouldn't touch windows services, yes I know that turning some of these off may help but to be honest the last time I did this on an old box windows went unstable and I had to reformat.
I wouldn't touch windows services or registry or anything because windows just uses that stuff weirdly.
I suggest using ccleaner.
I also suggest not running Skype or dropbox at startup or jaws for that matter.
I have nvda running at startup and msse and that's about it.
Skype is a hog even for those that can see my cousin had issues with his i7 locking up at startup or slowing down a lot.
it was Skype being loaded at startup.
Using ccleaner, defrags, etc should increase performance.
upgrading all drivers, and also clearing unneeded programs should help.
especially
any windows live software.
yes I know those of you on win8 have to live with it but if you have any extra live packs essentuals and other junk loaded get rid of it.
I wouldn't go killing all the programs that come with your laptop everything hp is not bad, like everything Toshiba is not all bloat with no use.
wild tangent games may be splashtop remote is inaccessible, also remove clickfree and Norton everything and all their customised adobe software because that's outdated by default.
To be honest, if you are that set on making sure you are really performing ok, do the following.
reformat and install windows 7 or whatever you want to use.
install the following drivers.
usb graphics, sound, network, lan wireless and that's all you need for your basic system.
intel NVidia etc have driver updates but to be honest if you don't want or need an NVidia card pull it out, and use the crappy intel one on the board.
I am s
upprised no one has mentioned before pcpitstop.com though.
the free tests on there should tell you what you need to do.
Note though that its fragmentation, cpu usage and memory/ driver errors are to sensitive.
its main wish is for you to install their software and other junk.
I am not sure about the access to that software but still.
I use the tests to find any hardware errors which it will give you freely.
Next try to reflash your bios or update it this may help you.
Finally if things don't work well much pull the battry on the bios if you can and leave it out for 5 minutes and put it back and see.
In msconfig boot advanced, check number of processers, and change that to the max you have, this will cause windows to use all cpu power at startup it only uses 1 otherwise.
You may get a little performance.
With sighted help in bios, if you have enough ram boost to max all buffers and memory shared devices if you must use a hi
gh end videocard get a radion unit.
I have one, and while its driver is good and yes while you have to get rid of a lot of bloat at startup its quite stable.
More so than the NVidia stuff I used and more than the intel cards I used.
It also does help that amd units boards in particular come with the card, and if you get an amd card you will get hdmi audio with that to.
As for other things, anything that says via on it sucks I have an i3 with via chipsets and as well as the interfaces being inaccessible, and such they are bloated and do not perform well.
Realtech is in a lot of things fortunately and it performs well.
To be honest though, if you really want performance and don't ned highend features then running the crappy ms drivers will probably be fine.
I never do but if you don't care you can do that.
The other thing I'd do is get speedfan and install it, there is a smart info page for disks and other things.
you want to
perform an online test, this will tell you if any errors are up and other things.
Over that, who knows.
I have a system that reboots randomly, but according to my diagnostics its within the norms and its fully optimised.
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