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Comment on Tweak Windows 7 by admin

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:03:02 +0000

Nice! Thank you for the feedback, Dennis Purdy!

Comment on Tweak Windows 7 by Dennis Purdy

Dennis Purdy — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:55:30 +0000

Like the other Windows titles, Microsoft has designed the OS to slow with time. Here are some of my optimizations
I use a SSD primary, leaving a small secondary partition on the SSD. Presently it is a 9 gig partition about 75 percent used.
The first thing I do is make a copy of the cmd.exe from the Windows/system32 directory to the empty partition then edit the environmental variable for comspec to point to the copy. Every window requires its own copy of the cmd.exe to run, meaning it is the first thing loaded when you open a new window. But Microsoft places the cmd.exe in one of the largest 3rd level directories in the largest second level directory making finding it a relatively lengthy task when the computer is new, and a horribly long task after you have grown those two directories by installing more software.
Second thing I do is turn off the automatic control of virtual memory in a advanced performance options and then take all the virtual memory and put it on the SSD setting it as managed by windows. This keeps the Virtual memory from getting fragmented all over the c: drive which it would. And defragmenting never defragments the virtual memory. The virtual memory will also work faster if all located on the SSD.
You can reduce the size of the SSD necessary if you add a fast SATA drive and install programs that you use only occasionally there, rather than on the SSD. I do however keep antivirus and browser software if nothing else installed on the ssd.

Comment on Windows 7 Preview Pane by blair

blair — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:32:57 +0000

Thanks!! We can use it in our class discussion about Windows 7.

Comment on Vista write caching by itvo

itvo — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:44:04 +0000

Well I still have to bought windows 7 from ebay. It sounds like it will be different from vista when it came out, I can’t wait! I’ll post back my success soon!

Comment on Show Control Panel in My computer by QFDaniel

QFDaniel — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:09:01 +0000

Good post. thx

Comment on Install Microsoft Security Essentials by Raguel Noneman

Raguel Noneman — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:25:19 +0000

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Comment on Export Outlook 2007 AutoComplete by admin

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:33:59 +0000

Hello and welcome!
You may post the article if you want to do it. There is no problem in that. I’m glad it helped!

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