At 12:17 PM 11/07/2007, Greg Sevart wrote:
I don't know that any true benchmark software is going to provide
significantly valid results. A good deal of the "slowness" users report is
as a result of concurrent software (legitimate and spy/adware) running in
the background. Your standard benchmark application will run its battery of
tests at an elevated priority. Thus, your benchmark may drastically
understate the actual perceived performance improvement after you finish
your cleaning. You may in fact be doing yourself a great disservice...
That's what I was thinking of writing something that would run
through some sort of scripted series of steps in Windows - open IE,
open WordPad, copy some files to a temp folder, delete the temp
folder, etc, but I was thinking if there is something out there that
does this, it'd save me the time.
I guess I could also time the boot time.
T
