Laptop needs speeding up

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HalfAnAndroid

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Hi there.
I have recently entered a competition with my friend, that my five year old laptop is faster than his MacBook Pro at boot times, loading programs.
Here are the specs:

Intel Centrino Duo (Core 2 Duo @ 1.8 GHz with Intel Motherboard, graphics chip and LAN)
Windows 7 Home Premium
Toshiba ACPI BIOS V3.8
2 GB Ram
320 GB HDD
12 Hour Battery life

I have removed most of my startup services, I have NOGUIBOOT on, I have set the BIOS to have HDD as first priority, and have the Windows Classic theme. I am, though, only getting 41.37 seconds boot time. How can I speed up my laptop to prove PCs are better than Macs.

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HalfAnAndroid

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the problem is the age of it, do you know the age of his? but truly the mac osx is a lighter platform i believe, so it is going to run faster on the same specs, and for functionality, many like it too, the one thing that windows kills on however, through a copy of battlefield 2 or some other game on there and gloat cuz in gaming he's screwed
 
wolfeking said:
read here http://www.computerforum.com/188636-how-speed-up-windows.html on how to enable multicore booting (helps).

Also, if you really want to reduce boot time, get a good SSD and reinstall windows from scratch.
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+1
Even just a new HDD would do some good. I have read how old HDD are not as fast as they use to be. But I am still supporting the idea of the SSD, from what I have read extremely faster, more reliable and saves on battery.

On the subject of OSX be faster then Windows 7 not true. In many bench mark test the only area OSX excelled well past Windows 7 was in software running audio work stations. Other then that they preformed about the same.
 
And turn off all non-essential services via MSCONFIG. Also use Readyboost and turn off all non-essential hardware and tests in the BIOS.
 
scan for malware

use disk cleanup and disk defragment and a registry cleanup program

disable indexing service

disable aero theme (if you dont mind)
 
oh yeah, there's a good chance an older laptop hdd is a 5400rpm, which will pull your speed down a good bit, also a little slower ram too, so you can look into those, but a ssd will give you the biggest step up in speed, only issue is if your lappy uses sata cables or what.
 
jonnyp11 said:
oh yeah, there's a good chance an older laptop hdd is a 5400rpm, which will pull your speed down a good bit, also a little slower ram too, so you can look into those, but a ssd will give you the biggest step up in speed, only issue is if your lappy uses sata cables or what.
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I thought they made SSD using SATA?
 
DMGrier said:
+1
Even just a new HDD would do some good. I have read how old HDD are not as fast as they use to be. But I am still supporting the idea of the SSD, from what I have read extremely faster, more reliable and saves on battery.

On the subject of OSX be faster then Windows 7 not true. In many bench mark test the only area OSX excelled well past Windows 7 was in software running audio work stations. Other then that they preformed about the same.
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It is a two week old HDD, 7,200 RPM. His Mac is a week old.
 
ryan.white said:
scan for malware

use disk cleanup and disk defragment and a registry cleanup program

disable indexing service

disable aero theme (if you dont mind)
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I have no malware - I do a scan every day. I always clean the registry, and I have a disk defrager as my screen saver (Auslogics for both). I have disabled Areo, and the Indexing service, upped the size of the paging file, have 2 GB Readyboost too. I have set the performance options to full performance - no eye candy. Would overclocking help? And what is the best program to overclock with? I have looked in the BIOS, but there is no option to overclock. I can't buy too much stuff too, as I am only 12.
 
You can not oc a lappy. It's not possible without bios support, or an extreme edition processor. You have neither.
 
HalfAnAndroid said:
I have no malware - I do a scan every day. I always clean the registry, and I have a disk defrager as my screen saver (Auslogics for both). I have disabled Areo, and the Indexing service, upped the size of the paging file, have 2 GB Readyboost too. I have set the performance options to full performance - no eye candy. Would overclocking help? And what is the best program to overclock with? I have looked in the BIOS, but there is no option to overclock. I can't buy too much stuff too, as I am only 12.
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All of which will make very little difference to boot times. Disable non-required hardware in the bios and disable start up programs using msconfig. Apart from that, you need a faster hard drive. thats about all you can do.
 
kmkrreeves1 said:
i can't believe no one has said that you should probably get more ram, most people have about 4gb in windows 7
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We're talking about boot times right? Not general performance.

Boot times, are related to two things. Speed of hard drive and the amount of information that is required to be processed.

The less 'applications / services ' that you start at boot the faster itll boot.

The faster the hard drive you have (read SSD) , the faster itll boot.

After that, disabling legacy hardware and unrequired support in the bios is about all you can do.

Case closed.
 
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