Roy's musings

I have a HP dv6000 laptop with Vista Home Premium. Since day 1, my machine was terribly slow for no reason. I tried so many tweaks that didn't seem to work at all. I installed Process Explorer from sysinternals tools to monitor which process is taking much resources. There were two things that gave me a good performance boost: Disable Windows defender. Disable the windows indexing service. I have my own anti-virus software (Avira) which provides protection against much better protection than the Windows defender. But because both the defender and Avira were scanning each file and process, it effectively doubled amount of load to protect the system. So I disabled the defender. You can read how to turn off the defender here . I don't need the indexing service offered by Windows. The indexer hogs so much resource and I have not used the search feature much. You can easily disable indexing by right clicking on the drive in Windows Explorer and un-checking the indexing for th...

Recently I have been looking around to upgrade the memory in my laptop. I was trying to understand what are the specs and how to find out the right RAM model for my laptop. I found this article to be extremely useful. You can also read a follow up article that talks about the details of the RAMs used in GPUs. Also this article was helpful in understanding the FSB speeds and bus speeds in general.