Qosmio X500-10T - 8GB of Ram and Windows 7 64 slowness?
I have the 8GB of RAM, and am using the Windows 7 64bit as standard with the computer, but am finding loading into windows painfully slow. How can this be? Ive disabled lots of the startup programs that I dont need, and this has made no difference.
Anyone know of any speed tweaks for this OS?
Hi
I dont know how much RAM you had before but for Windows boot procedure it makes no difference if you have 8, 4 or 3GB RAM. Windows 7 with all drivers need less as 1GB RAM. You will only notice a performance boost of 8GB RAM if you open a lot of programs they need much RAM, like games, video editing, etc.
Furthermore what do you understand under long boot procedure? 1 minute? 2 minute? 3 minute?
In my opinion everything is ok up to 1 or 2 minutes boot procedure but I noticed that everyone think different about this.
What you can do to improve this is defragment HDD, disable startup programs that you dont need and install only programs that you really need.
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