Posted: 6/6/2007 6:50:19 PM EDT
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When I initially open internet explorer it takes about 10 seconds to load. When I download audio/video with windows media player it takes quite a while ( 15+ seconds) before even beggining to buffer the feed/download. I am concerned that the MS security may be causing this. Any ideas to speed up the process. I'm running a new Dell w/ twin Intel 2.13g processors and 250 gig ram so the PC isn't the problem Tahnks. |
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New Dell... Yeah - step on eis to go through Add/Remove Programs and strip out as much of the useless crap they foist on you as possible. (only remove what you are positive you can identify) Vista DRM is a royal fucking nightmare, but it should not be kicking in from web content... then again, you never know. (I have a Vista box from work to test. I'm tempted to put Ubuntu on it once the eval is over) |
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It is not MS security… IE opens on my Dell notebook in about 2-3 seconds and Windows media player about the same and starts buffering in a couple of seconds. I have a Core 2 Duo running at 2Ghz and 2GB ram, not as quick as yours. Leave Windows Defender alone that is not the problem. What anti-virus are you running? Have you run PC Decrapifier? Open the task manager and see what is running in the background, check the Startup program folder to see what is starting on power up. |
Vista DRM has no perceivable impact on system performance and is nothing the average user will ever notice. |
Here you go: www.pcdecrapifier.com/ I don’t like MacAfee anti-virus and associated products IMO they do drag systems down, I prefer AVG Free or Avast both of which work and don’t drag the system down. I have a Dell notebook with a slower processor than yours running Vista with AVG Free, Windows Defender, and Spybot Search & Destroy and the system is snappy fast there is no reason your system could not be the same. ETA: I have both MacAfee and Norton that I got gratis and I choose not to use either because I consider both resource hogs that are no more effective that free alternatives. |
