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Larkina

Thank you kindly for the help.

Larkina

So in essence what you're saying is that the only tweak I can make would be in my signal strengths. The quality of my cable lines, router etc?

Larkina

Thank you very much. What tweaks could be offered for Vista Home Premium 32bit? I have about 2Gs of Ram and it's fast but it doesn't have that zip.

Dell XPS 410
Window Vista Home Premium
Intel 2.40GHz. Core Duo E6600 Processor
Ati Radeon X1300 256Mb
SATA II 250G Western Digital Storage
2Gs of ...

Larkina

Does TCP Optimizer support Windows Vista 32bit?

Larkina

Will the system automatically recognize that it's meant for data like the pagefile partition?

Larkina

If you have 2 partitioned hard drives where would you place the pagefile on each? On the Primary drive you have your OS and nothing else I'm told except a pagefile and on your Secondary drive you should place the pagefile up front in front of any other partitions for quicker access. Is this not ...

Larkina

Thank you.

Larkina

Are there drivers to be downloaded when performing a clean install at F5 for a simple Raid 0 or striped set configuration on the Windows Xp CD? If so, what are they? I'm using 2 IDE Western Digital hard drives. I know it states that if you have any 3rd party drivers to press F5 to install. I was ...

Larkina

Thanks for the info.

Larkina

I'm at a download speed of 3550kbps. Should I set the Tcp optimizer at 4000kbps or 3500?

Larkina

Is it recommended to use compression when configuring a stripe set configuration in dynamic disk for Windows XP Pro? Will this help on the performance end?

Larkina

Okay, I didn't know.

Larkina

Needless to say that I will no doubt have to reinstall my operating system over again right? Which if this will makes it respond better than it's responding now it will be well worth the effort. I was using a stripe configuration and it performed amazing well even though it's not configured ...

Larkina

In my system I have 2 hard drives 1 40G and 1 80G both IDE Western Digital 7200 rpm. My 40G is the most recent hard drive in my computer, but whenever I perform an installation of Windows the C: always places on the 80G. Should I then be placing the 80G as the master in my system configuration and ...

Larkina

That's exactly what I was thinking also. Thank you very much for the help anyhow.

Larkina

I'm just a little confused as to how you physically change your IDE cables to accomodate a hard drive and a cd-rom. My IDE cable won't reach that far due to the way the hard drive bay and cd bay's are located in my computer case or is this automatically done when you set both hard drives to master ...

Larkina

Why heck, that's the way my DSL has been hooked up since I've had it. With a filter on the modem line that is. Well bless. Man, I knew something wasn't right but heck even the phone Technician didn't say anything about it when he check it out. Well, I can't exactly be mad at him cause he gave me a ...

Larkina

What about a fax machine? I have my fax machine hooked on the same line as one of my telephones would this cause problems? I seem to be getting a reverberation whenever I pickup my telephone and like hold it face down on a surface as though you were picking it up to answer it.What is all that about ...

Larkina

Thanks a million.

Larkina

In order to place both hard drives on separate channels would I need any extra cables? Currently I have 2 hard drives, a CD-ROM and a CD/DVD optical. Would I need any extra cable in order to perform a separate channel configuration? My computer is a fairly new model, (Dell Dimension 4500). It has ...

Larkina

Thank you'll for the great information. You guys are tough.

Larkina

So in essence what you are saying is that this can work and yield great perfomance provided that everything is setup properly, pins, placing the hard drives on the right IDE along with the optical equipment. Yesssss!

Larkina

Thank you for the help Jim. I'm always looking for a little more speed and better performance. I guess I'll have to actually just purchase one of the high performance models. Thank you.

Larkina

Will placing the hard drives on separate IDE channels yield good performance? The way I understand this is that the Primary hard drive is placed with the CD-Rom on the same channel with the pin connection in the Slave position. Next the second hard drive would be placed on the second IDE channel ...

Larkina

I understand exactly what you're saying. I didn't quite know the difference thinking it might be an advantage to installing software in safemode. I quest like you said some software can be but not all, although I do uninstall some programs in safemode and just as yourself run anti spyware and ...

Larkina

After installing Windows XP can or is it possible to install your system drivers while in safemode? I realize you can't install the network driver as I stated before but you can install the chipset, audio and video drivers and thank you in advance for the info. I'm sorry the question was stated wrong.

Larkina

Excuse me It's not performing a clean installation in Safemode but after the clean install has been performed going into safemode and installing the core components like the chipset drivers, video drivers, audio driver. etc.

Larkina

I meant performing a clean install wiping the harddrive, partitioning, the whole nine yards. Rebooting the system with the installation disk in the tray and performing a clean fresh copy of Windows XP.

Larkina

Is there a such thing as performing a clean install in safemode? I know that you wouldn't be able to install your networking drivers but for your core components like chipset and audio, video is this okay to do it that way? However, I installed Windows XP Pro this way everything except the ...

Larkina

I try to be. Hey, thank you'll for the great tips.

Larkina

How exactly do you go about setting up a proxy on your system and is it better on performance? I'm using Windows XP Pro operating system with Mozilla Firefox as my browser.

Larkina

Oh yeah, I appreciate the tip on the low impact antivirus software from Microsoft. I'm not familiar with that one, but I sure will give it a try. You know when you get use to a certain software and it's a good as Avast, and I mean it's good as for as updating you couldn't ask for more. I did ...

Larkina

Both of my hard drives are brand new Western Digital, althought I have wipped them several times using IOLO scrub brush. I have 1 40G and 1 80G which I'm currently using a striped configuration for storage after converting to dynamic disk. I have the poor man's raid, LOL. I guess I have the Raid 0 ...

Larkina

I can disable Avast, that's my antivirus software. I wish that I could. I know for a fact that it's eating up my resources for sure.

Larkina

I have about 1 Gig of Ram and my processor speed is 1.80Ghz Pentium 4

Larkina

I've performed numerous reinstallations of Windows XP and it seems that maybe I'm doing something wrong. The reason I say this is because I get a slow response whenever I click on an icon to bring a program up on my computer it hesitates for while before opening up. Now, I've tweaked the registry in ...

Larkina

You should be able to type in your browser launchmodem, this will pull up your Bellsouth properties where you can make the bridged change in your modem. You have to make the change and then save it. I hope this will help you.

Larkina

I don't know if this will help you or not but you can also go to http://www.linksys.com/check and it will walk you through the entire setup of your router to your system. I've tried it several times and it does work quite well.

Larkina

I know this sound weird, but I haven't really enjoyed working or doing anything on my computer for not being able to get that good response you get when everythings flowing smooth. Also, I read in one of the Speedguide Forums about separating the modem and the router and getting your phone lines ...

Larkina

I am using Windows XP Pro. I bridge my Westell modem and configured my router for PPPOE. It seems to work better that way in my case. I guess it maybe that the router is a better piece of equipment than the Westell modem. Anyhow my internet is a lot more snappier and quicker than before.

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Windows Vista Compatiblity

Positioning the Pagefile on 2 Separate Hard Drives

Loading Raid Drivers on Clean Install

TCP Optimizer Settings

Using Compression With A Stripe Set Config.

Trying to determine which hard drive should used for the master

Placing the hard drives on separate channels

Clean Installing Windows in Safemode

How Do You Setup a Proxy

Slow Response