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Originally Posted by adomakin
anyway it has cured the prob
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Yep fixed for now, just wait a few months and you will have some other problem... then wipe it clean, and re-install everything, and wow fixed again.
Now imagine if every few months you had to do a full engine rebuild on your Porsche just to keep the thing driving like normal ... amazing what people are willing to put up with when using computers!
Best tip for Windows to make your machine run faster is simply increase the amount of memory you have. Second best tip is to run your windows machine with 3 hard drives instead of one. Keep Windows installed on one drive, your applications installed on another, and all your data on the third.
For those interested in the WHY, here is my best attempt at translating nerd speak into english,
In any of these cases what you are really doing is simply speeding up disk access. Adding memory allows Windows to keep more of the hard disk data cached in memory, and splitting windows/programs/data on three drives allows Windows to do up to three times the hard drive accesses at a given time.
See while hard drives are amazingly fast at reading in a straight line, they can only skip around about 60-100 times per second. Applications like Photoshop take forever to load simply because they need to access perhaps 1000-3000 places on disk to gather all the data to startup. In other words if you have to seek to 2000 places on disk to get your data, and you can only do 100 seeks per second, its going to take 20 seconds regardless of how fast your processor is.
Of course the second time you load your application it will probably load faster because Windows keeps previous reads from the hard drive cached in memory.