T400s Question of RAM and overall performance
I have a T400s. P9600 @ 3.53 GHz, 4 GB of RAM, Windows 7 64bit, 64 GB Solid state hard drive
Recently while writing my Masters thesis using microsoft word, the computer was very slow and had difficulties switching between Microsoft office 2003 Word and Excel. The Word doc. became rather large, filled with pics and files, etc. However working on other desktop computers with much slower processors and less RAM available I had no difficulties.
Furthermore, I used my wife's notebook, from another company, that has the same processor and RAM but operates on a 32 bit system and has a much better video card with 512 MB of memory with no problems. Also, when monitoring the system performance I never see the RAM operating at higher than 34% which the 64 bit system needs to operate. The last observation is what leads me to believe something is not working properly with my notebook that is only 6 months old.
Other than this issue this is the best computer I have ever owned, but I bought it mainly because it was ranked as the most powerful notebook in the industry, and I have problems with Microsoft office??
Is there a problem with using Office 2003 with windows 7 64bit?
Is this caused by the performance of the video card?
Or is there an issue with my RAM or Notebook?
A few questions:
1) Has the performance always been this way, or is it a new occurance.
2) Which video card do you have? If you are using the integrated intel video make sure you have the most up to date Windows7 drivers from Lenovo, if that doesn't seem to help you could try different releases to see which performs the best, a good way to see if the video is the issue is to do something video intensive (1080p video or the likes). It is somewhat unlikely that the video driver could influence the speed of office however since for the most part these are non-graphic intensive apps. Another thing would be to try using the Windows Basic theme, if you still have issues it is unlikely the video card.
3) There are alot of factors which can influence memory usage in 64bit windows, keep in mind in most situations only 64 bit applications can access memory above 3gb. What is the size of the page file? If the system is reporting the full amount of memory it is unlikely that it isn't available to the system. 34% of your ram seems high for just the system since my 3gb system has 1.1 gb in use with firefox, aim, openoffice.org and all the lenovo apps and avira anti virus going.
4) What antivirus software are you using, has the system been scanned recently and have you tried to reproduce the issue with the antivirus disabled?
5) How full is your HD. Even with SSD's things slow down quite a bit as the drive reaches it's capacity.. 64GB is a little on the tight side for Windows7.
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