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Hi!

I am using a Sony VAIO VGN TX51B. It is a Japanese model with Japanese Windows XP. I bought it second hand in Japan because the man who owned it wanted the newest model with finger print reader. Fortunately, he was not Yakuza.

The model was probably released as a TX-2 in England. I like the way you can use media without launching Windows.





I bought a long life battery, which Sony claimed would run for 11 plus hours ! In reality, just over 7, is what I get. The battery is a Sony VGP-BPL5A



Technology: Li-ion
Rating: 7.4 V
Capacity: 13000 mAh



Now to my question. The Hard disc is divided into C:/ and D:/ and I seem to remember being told that I need to keep a good amount of free space on the C:/ drive

I am wondering because the notebook seems to have slowed up a lot!

I would have thought that Windows XP sorts this out for itself...

Any advice or tips on how to get it to speed up are always welcomed !

Ofiaich


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[ This Message was edited by: ofiaich on 2009-02-02 17:23 ]
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Posted: 2009-02-02 18:20:14
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my first thought reading your post... 13000mAh battery? thats a hell of a huge battery. even my extended battery on my current Z series is only 8400mAh!

anyway, I find that once a year I need to backup my files and use the vaio restore discs to go back to factory setting, do the windows updates and the vaio updates and then install the software I actually use and then restore my data in order to get the best performance from my XP/Vista machines.

but... as a start its worth doing a disk cleanup (found in accessories > system tools) and make sure you include temporary internet files and as much other stuff that it offers that you don't need.

then try a defrag (found in the same menu)

that'll probably make some difference to you but also make sure you run some good anti virus and anti spyware software to make sure something else is not taking your performance. Also use task manager/processes to see what is actually running and check for anything consuming CPU that is unexpected

edit: btw, I'd also trash the D drive and give all the space to the C drive. these days with FAT32 and NTFS there's no need to create these separate partitions

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[ This Message was edited by: masseur on 2009-02-02 17:35 ]
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Posted: 2009-02-02 18:31:13
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thanks for your quick reply masseur!

I am with you on all but not sure how to trash the D drive..

I will do the others now as I know I have not done them for a while..

Does anyone have a good benchmark test program to recommend so I can see improvements?

Thanks again!

Ofiaich

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Posted: 2009-02-02 19:08:21
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^^^

I seem to recall that you like to do a bit of video encoding occasionally?

That's the best benchmark, encode a video before and after and see if it takes less time after the maintenance!

Gets the processor, memory and hard drive going better than any benchmarking tool

But if you want to be really geeky, there's always PCMark05 basic
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Posted: 2009-02-02 19:16:24
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on the other hand... you yourself have noticed the degredation in performance and so I'm sure you yourself will appreciate the performance gains you get from whatever you decide to do... you don't really need to measure it empirically
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Posted: 2009-02-02 19:19:28
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Precisely. If you're going to test performance, test by doing things that you would normally do. You'll know pretty much instantly if there's been an improvement or not.

Benchmarks are good for burn-in tests but not much else. Except bragging rights on gaming forums...
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Posted: 2009-02-02 19:26:21
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masseur and Cycovision !

thanks very much! Very helpful advice !

i use this for my travels. do encoding on my desktp pc.

ofiaich
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Posted: 2009-02-02 19:39:56
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hi again!



can i do this easily within Windows XP ?

Ofiaich
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Posted: 2009-02-02 20:34:03
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I don't think so, but the last few vaio restore discs I have had have had the option to change partition size before restoring... or get partition magic or even better... I use Acronis Trueimage to backup my hard drives etc and it gives the option to repartition on restore
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Posted: 2009-02-02 20:37:51
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vista has an inbuilt partition manager that is more than capable at resizing those partitions

how many gb have you got free on the c drive?
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Posted: 2009-02-02 20:45:14
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