ThinkVantage Performance Issues - Remove?

Hi, It looks like a lot of people have had the slow performance issues that I have experienced with my X61 tablet.  These stem around running or trying to run any of the ThinkVantage programs.  They take FOREVER!!!! I can't even get my access connections to open at all anymore!  After doing a BIOS update and the recommended updates, I am bewildered and report that the performance issues remain.
In concept, the ThinkVantage SW is great.  In execution it is an embarrassment and has wasted too many hours of my life to count.  I would never have purchased this tablet if I had known about this OR would have looked into running it without ThinkVantage BEFORE I was in the situation I am in now.  Has anyone else removed ThinkVantage completely? Is it even possible as par tof it looks to be embedded over BIOS.  Thanks for any advice!!
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You can use the Thinkpad without any Thinkvantage software if you want to. Since Thinkvantage is a lot of things i'm not sure what software you find to slow down the computer. I'm not sure if you use the pre-installed OS or did a clean install, but since the Thinkpads are filled with stuff i don't need/want i never even tried to use the pre-installed OS and used a standard Windows CD/DVD to install a clean windows installation. Then i installed the drivers and only the Thinkvantage software i want which i find to work better then using the pre-installed OS. I never really figured why Lenovo sell business laptops with that much stuff pre-installed like Norton Antivirus which is not even mean't for corporate use.
What Thinkvantage software you need and want is really up to you. Stuff like message center, client security solution, productivity center and help center are some examples of the stuff i find pretty useless. Some people might disagree though. Access Connections i actually think is pretty good, but i don't need the features so don't use it. I would recommend to install only what you find useful and need then uninstall the software you don't need/want. Even if it's a bit of work i always prefer to do a new clean installation of Windows as well.
Message Edited by gan on 02-18-2009 12:23 AM

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      Backup size 500.04 GB > (Disk size 0 B X 3)
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  • Macbook screen cracked, HD and performance issues

    I am definitely disappointed with my computer.
    I have a Macbook 13.3" 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo 4Gb 160Gb HD, Serial#: W8**VM0P5, and within 1,5 year I have faced many issues, which are related here:
    September 24th, 2008
    O.S. CRASHES
    I bought it in late September 2008, in Cologne, Germany, at the reseller "Compustore PC Gmbh", and also asked 4Gb Ram, and a Wireless mighty mouse.
    After changing the Ram memory, i went home; and a few days later, the problems came. Sometimes, the system crashed suddenly, showing the grey screen: "You must restart your computer". I thought it was normal, and continued to use, when it became more frequently (Picture: http://picasaweb.google.com/gstorck/MacbookProblems#5476986272817173138). It was little strange for a new laptop, and then I took it back to the store to fix it. The seller just took a look, changed some configurations, and gave me back again. I did this twice, and had to get back to the store for the third time, due to new crashes and some lack of performance. Then the seller replaced the Ram memory, with new 4Gb.
    After that, the system worked more stable; the problem happened some two or three times after some months, but it was ok.
    November 9th, 2009
    HD Problems
    One year later, in late 2009, I purchased a Mac OS update, the Snow Leopard. I was back to Brazil, where I live till today. During the OS installation, something went wrong and it couldn't be completed. Mac asked me to restart the computer, but then the system didn't start anymore; some files were corrupted. I guess there was not enough space to install the update, so it was not completed; but it should be no reason to the corruption of the OS.
    November 10th, 2009
    I took my computer to the local Apple technical support, the "Omni Informatica", in Curitiba, PR, Brazil, to format the HD and reinstall the Snow Leopard. As I needed more space, I also changed my original 160Gb HD for a new 250Gb Western Digital HD. The service was finished in Nov 17th.
    I noticed also little cracks in the laptop case, but I had no time to insist with the bad local technical support to repair it (I know Apple already acknowledged this problem.) They said, at first, that they would have to ask the Apple USA to send the body, or something like that.
    (Pictures:http://picasaweb.google.com/gstorck/MacbookProblems#5476986477312032226)
    January 12th, 2010.
    SCREEN CRACKED
    The reinstallation was ok, and the laptop was running well. Suddenly, when I take the Macbook from the case and open it on my desk, something pretty wrong appears: a large crack on the lower right corner of the screen.
    It was not dropped, it was not crashed, and I did not "close it with a pen inside".
    The screen simply cracked. And as so many similar problems with another users I could easily find on the web, I really expect Apple to admit it as a Manufacture's fault. The local technical support said it is no other thing except I hit the laptop, or dropped it, so it's all my fault. (See Picture 3)
    The only thing they can offer me is to repair the screen for R$1200. I am definitely not going to pay for this; a "normal" and good pc laptop costs this price (And a new basic macbook costs today R$2400).
    If the problems were just it, it would be not so bad.
    (Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/gstorck/MacbookProblems#5476986361400585122)
    February 11th, 2010
    HD FAILURE
    After 1 month, on Feb 11th, my new 250Gb HD simply stopped working. Different from the first time, that the HD was just corrupted, this time it has really broken, it died. I had it all backed up, but I have lost the HD.
    Back again to the technical assistance, they said to me the problem was the same that cracked my screen: my fault, on letting the laptop fall, or hitting it with some kind of pressure. They couldn't do anything, and even the Western Digital 3-month Warranty would not cover this type of problem ("user's misuse").
    May 28th, 2010
    DECREASE IN PERFORMANCE
    I'm working again with the original 160Gb HD (formatted and reinstalled), and some other external drives to store my files.
    It's been quite difficult to deal with all this Data and Screen problems, and now the Macbook's performance is decreasing every day. It's been slower to process operations and to launch the applications. Sometimes, the system does not even sleep anymore when the laptop is closed, or it takes so long time to sleep that it just sleeps when I open it again. Besides, sometimes the mouse pointer disappear, and some bizarre graphics take its place.
    Don't forget: It's a 1,5-year-old Macbook, with 2.4GHz, 4Gb RAM and the O.S. is installed for no longer than 4 months. It is supposed to work better, I guess.
    I saved a lot of money to buy a good computer, and to get rid of the endless issues I had with PCs. That issues never were so serious with the ones I face now with Macbook.
    Even if I pay R$1200 to replace the screen, with the money I don't have, I would still stand these performance issues, which seem to have come with this problematical laptop. I hope to have some solution from Apple, if it want to deliver what it promises and want to keep a customer.
    Otherwise, I will have to change to another system platform and another computer manufacturer, to see if I stop throwing money away with these devices. I think that maybe at least, the cost-benefit ratio will be higher.
    Did anybody receive contact from Apple support about these screen problems?
    Guilherme R. Storck
    Apple user since 2008
    <Edited By Host>
    gstorck (at) gmail (dot) com

    Well, your first issue is pretty clearly just some bad RAM, and it sounds like even the replacement RAM was bad. Who knows if the people who put it in had any kind of clue what they were doing. I've seen repair shops where people are smoking in the same room they do repairs.
    Second problem sounds typical of a failing HDD. It's a fairly common problem with laptops... Apple, Dell, Lenovo, HP, Acer... Probably the single most common problem with laptops no matter who makes them. People get this notion in their heads that the "portable" aspect of laptops means you can pick them up and carry them all over while turned on. Which you can... If you don't mind dramatically shortening the life of the HDD. What "portable" REALLY means with laptops, is that they are easy to move if you put them into a powered down state. They should NEVER be moved around when in normal operation. And since you seem to do a bit of traveling, if you're on a plan, and there's turbulence, you should shut the laptop off until it smooths out.
    The screen cracking could have something to do with the rather sudden change in climate. Germany isn't exactly the frozen tundra, but it is a pretty different climate from Brazil, and changes in things like humidity could cause problems. The laws of thermodynamics tell us that things expand as they heat up, so if there's already a crack somewhere, it could easily get worse as a result of increased heat.
    And since your initial hard drive was already starting to fail, it hasn't magically stopped failing since being removed from the system, so obviously performance is going to get worse.
    At this point, it's pretty much impossible to tell where the damage was done, so you're probably just out of luck. The people in Germany could have screwed something up, or the people in Brazil, it could have been environmental damage, and it's possible the defect was always there, it just didn't manifest until recently. There's just no way to tell for sure. So Apple is unlikely to do anything for you.

  • 7 year, 100+ PC Veteran Stumped ! Power, and performance issues. Full detail included.

    Good morning everyone! (At least it's morning in wonderful Pennsylvania USA!)
    AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (New Castle)
    Thermaltake Venus 12 CPU Cooler w/ Manual Adjust
    MSI "K8T Neo-FIS2R" K8T800
    512MB x 2 Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PT (Rated 2-3-3-6 1T)
    Antec TruePower 430w PS (+5V@36A +3.3V@28A +12V@20A)
    Gainward Dual DVI w/ VIVO GeForce FX5700 Ultra
    2x Viewsonic 19" VX900 LCD Monitors
    Creative SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum eX
    Plextor 712a Black 12x+/8x- DVD-RW
    Lite-On SOHD-167T Black 16x DVD-ROM
    Western Digital WD740GD 74GB 10,000rpm Raptor SATA
    Western Digital WD2500JB 250GB 7,200rpm 8MB IDE
    Seagate Barracuda ST3200822AS 200GB 7,200rpm 8MB IDE
    Lian-Li PC-65B Black Aluminum Case
    Vantech PCI Slot Fan
    CyberPower 825va Voltage Regulating UPS
    Windows XP Professional SP1a
         There we have it, I think that that is all you need to know to perhaps give opinions and advice. Allow me to elaborate on why I am posting today after browsing this wonderful forum for the last two weeks. (...and by the way, my hat's off to some of you knowledgeable regulars for helping out a lot of newbies and folks in trouble!) Without further adieu:
    Problem #1: POWER ISSUE
    When, or if, I remove AC Power from my PC for whatever reason I run into a problem in which after reconnecting the AC Power and attempting to turn on the computer it goes into a 3-5 second startup loop in which the PC does not post, but rather cycles power to all of the components indefinitely. I notice the LEDs on my optical drives cycling repeatedly ad infinitum until I power off using the 4-second hold method, and then press the power button again. At this point the PC boots up fine, and boots up fine going forward from all restarts and shut downs. How strange? I've never, EVER, encountered something like this before.
    Problem #2: PERFORMANCE ISSUE
    This PC has a handful of serious performace issues.
    3dMark03 scored horribly.
    Prime95 runs ridiculously slow although there are no erros! It runs much more quickly on my work PC which is a PIII 866mhz with 384MB of PC133 RAM.
    I receive, on no regular frequency, or while doing anything in particular, Explorer memory errors. Not BSOD's mind you, but "...blah blah blah referenced memory address xxxxx-xxxxx and could not be written". This causes Explorer to restart itself, blowing away the start menu, task bar, and any Explorer windows open. They reappear, of course, without incident.
    The most off performance issue of all is that when opening an Explorer window for either of my IDE HDs, designated D and E drives, I find that when using the highlighting rectangle tool the Explorer window freezes or lags. I can double-click and open or move/copy files without incident, but if I attempt to highlight by this method this halt or lag occurs.
    Also, since my update of the BIOS from 1.2 to 1.7, and then to 1.8 system startup times prior to Windows loading are HORRID. I have disabled just about everything, and yet the SATA BIOS loads for 5 seconds, and then I must wait 20 seconds for Windows itself to come to the login screen. No other BIOS related issues to report per se, but this is terrible for what should be a blazingly fast computer.
    Now let's see.. what have I tried to do to repair the issues?
    1) 2 BIOS flashes. First from 1.2->1.7, and then from 1.7->1.8. Ostensibly this was just "because". The power user need to have the latest! I noticed the incorrect CPU temperature being reported, however.. This led to me buying this massive ThermalTake HSF to replace my stocker. I also added more thermal goop than I ever have before, as well as a PCI slot fan before I became aware that it was a BIOS issue! GRRRR MSI.
    2) I thought perhaps for the one issue that one of the hard drives was an issue, and even perhaps for power, but I replaced each with new drives and tested all 4 on another PC. NO problems. Also I should perhaps mention that my IDE drives are all hooked up using Antec Cobra cables. Expensive yes, but why the hell not, right? I've never seen a hang-off grounding wire for IDE before. Decided not to use them as I could think of a great place to screw them in, nor have other PC using them had trouble skipping the ground wire.
    3) I unplugged every molex cable, the 4-pin CPU power, and the 20-pin ATX power and rerranged them all - as well as removed and then reinserted the RAM.
    4) I tried changing my memory timings and power management settings, etc in BIOS. Nothing seem to impact the issue. I didn't fiddle with the voltages, but I should not need to running the RAM at SPD or lower settings and without overclocking the system at all!
    5) Another issue that I had that seems to have vanished, come back, vanished, and then come back a "little bit" is my USB ports. When set to enable legacy devices in BIOS my USB items like my Logitech wireless keyboard would just cycle power and refuse to function. Also my UPS connected VIA USB seems to sometimes handshake with Windows and sometimes not. I've tried using all of the different ports, etc but the problem remains. I NEED 6 ports for my devices so it is all that I could do!
    6) I have an Enermax 550w EG651P-VE(FMA) with 36 amps on each voltage rail on it's way, and it should arrive tomorrow. Despite all of the crap regarding power supplies that I see on this board I am not confident that it's the problem. That Antec PSU should be able to hold it's on with 20 amps on the +12v channel. C'mon now. I build a nearly identical system with the same power supply for a customer and he has no problems at all. He also has 3 HDs, same motherboard, etc.. the only difference is he has but one optical drive and a 2800+ rather than a 3200+. That power difference should be decimal nature in amps needed.
    ...oh and the sound card is in PCI slot 3, for those that remember the glory days of sound card IRQ issues that Creative was once notorious for... oh, and I disable the ethernet boot device, etc so my slow startups should not be related. My serial ATA drive is also on connection 1 of the VIA controller.. Promise can kiss my a**.
    Soooo.. Show me what a n00b I am, oh great ones. I've built over 100 PCs since 1998 for myself, friends, families, and customers... and I've never seen an issue like this one! I'm no dummy, but please don't assume too much. Other pros on here know full well you can forget the most simple mundane detail in spite of experience! I want to solve this problem. I am on the verge of shelling out for a new motherboard and processor of the 939 pin variety.. and am now wary of MSI's long awaited socket 939 K8 Neo2 board despite it's awesome reviews. MSI has never really given me trouble before.. but I don't really want to spend money to the order of $200+ for that damned Gigabyte board. Gigabyte has always been good to me as well. Save my wallet! PLEASE!!!
    Thanks so much everyone, I tried very hard not to leave out any details!
    Az (Ian)
    You can reach me on Yahoo or AIM just about any time, and I will check here frequently.

    Quote
    Originally posted by AzaghalSEI
    Good morning everyone! (At least it's morning in wonderful Pennsylvania USA!)
    AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (New Castle)
    Thermaltake Venus 12 CPU Cooler w/ Manual Adjust
    MSI "K8T Neo-FIS2R" K8T800
    512MB x 2 Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PT (Rated 2-3-3-6 1T)
    Antec TruePower 430w PS (+5V@36A +3.3V@28A +12V@20A)
    Gainward Dual DVI w/ VIVO GeForce FX5700 Ultra
    2x Viewsonic 19" VX900 LCD Monitors
    Creative SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum eX
    Plextor 712a Black 12x+/8x- DVD-RW
    Lite-On SOHD-167T Black 16x DVD-ROM
    Western Digital WD740GD 74GB 10,000rpm Raptor SATA
    Western Digital WD2500JB 250GB 7,200rpm 8MB IDE
    Seagate Barracuda ST3200822AS 200GB 7,200rpm 8MB IDE
    Lian-Li PC-65B Black Aluminum Case
    Vantech PCI Slot Fan
    CyberPower 825va Voltage Regulating UPS
    Windows XP Professional SP1a
         There we have it, I think that that is all you need to know to perhaps give opinions and advice. Allow me to elaborate on why I am posting today after browsing this wonderful forum for the last two weeks. (...and by the way, my hat's off to some of you knowledgeable regulars for helping out a lot of newbies and folks in trouble!) Without further adieu:
    Problem #1: POWER ISSUE
    When, or if, I remove AC Power from my PC for whatever reason I run into a problem in which after reconnecting the AC Power and attempting to turn on the computer it goes into a 3-5 second startup loop in which the PC does not post, but rather cycles power to all of the components indefinitely. I notice the LEDs on my optical drives cycling repeatedly ad infinitum until I power off using the 4-second hold method, and then press the power button again. At this point the PC boots up fine, and boots up fine going forward from all restarts and shut downs. How strange? I've never, EVER, encountered something like this before.
    Problem #2: PERFORMANCE ISSUE
    This PC has a handful of serious performace issues.
    3dMark03 scored horribly.
    Prime95 runs ridiculously slow although there are no erros! It runs much more quickly on my work PC which is a PIII 866mhz with 384MB of PC133 RAM.
    I receive, on no regular frequency, or while doing anything in particular, Explorer memory errors. Not BSOD's mind you, but "...blah blah blah referenced memory address xxxxx-xxxxx and could not be written". This causes Explorer to restart itself, blowing away the start menu, task bar, and any Explorer windows open. They reappear, of course, without incident.
    The most off performance issue of all is that when opening an Explorer window for either of my IDE HDs, designated D and E drives, I find that when using the highlighting rectangle tool the Explorer window freezes or lags. I can double-click and open or move/copy files without incident, but if I attempt to highlight by this method this halt or lag occurs.
    Also, since my update of the BIOS from 1.2 to 1.7, and then to 1.8 system startup times prior to Windows loading are HORRID. I have disabled just about everything, and yet the SATA BIOS loads for 5 seconds, and then I must wait 20 seconds for Windows itself to come to the login screen. No other BIOS related issues to report per se, but this is terrible for what should be a blazingly fast computer.
    Now let's see.. what have I tried to do to repair the issues?
    1) 2 BIOS flashes. First from 1.2->1.7, and then from 1.7->1.8. Ostensibly this was just "because". The power user need to have the latest! I noticed the incorrect CPU temperature being reported, however.. This led to me buying this massive ThermalTake HSF to replace my stocker. I also added more thermal goop than I ever have before, as well as a PCI slot fan before I became aware that it was a BIOS issue! GRRRR MSI.
    2) I thought perhaps for the one issue that one of the hard drives was an issue, and even perhaps for power, but I replaced each with new drives and tested all 4 on another PC. NO problems. Also I should perhaps mention that my IDE drives are all hooked up using Antec Cobra cables. Expensive yes, but why the hell not, right? I've never seen a hang-off grounding wire for IDE before. Decided not to use them as I could think of a great place to screw them in, nor have other PC using them had trouble skipping the ground wire.
    3) I unplugged every molex cable, the 4-pin CPU power, and the 20-pin ATX power and rerranged them all - as well as removed and then reinserted the RAM.
    4) I tried changing my memory timings and power management settings, etc in BIOS. Nothing seem to impact the issue. I didn't fiddle with the voltages, but I should not need to running the RAM at SPD or lower settings and without overclocking the system at all!
    5) Another issue that I had that seems to have vanished, come back, vanished, and then come back a "little bit" is my USB ports. When set to enable legacy devices in BIOS my USB items like my Logitech wireless keyboard would just cycle power and refuse to function. Also my UPS connected VIA USB seems to sometimes handshake with Windows and sometimes not. I've tried using all of the different ports, etc but the problem remains. I NEED 6 ports for my devices so it is all that I could do!
    6) I have an Enermax 550w EG651P-VE(FMA) with 36 amps on each voltage rail on it's way, and it should arrive tomorrow. Despite all of the crap regarding power supplies that I see on this board I am not confident that it's the problem. That Antec PSU should be able to hold it's on with 20 amps on the +12v channel. C'mon now. I build a nearly identical system with the same power supply for a customer and he has no problems at all. He also has 3 HDs, same motherboard, etc.. the only difference is he has but one optical drive and a 2800+ rather than a 3200+. That power difference should be decimal nature in amps needed.
    ...oh and the sound card is in PCI slot 3, for those that remember the glory days of sound card IRQ issues that Creative was once notorious for... oh, and I disable the ethernet boot device, etc so my slow startups should not be related. My serial ATA drive is also on connection 1 of the VIA controller.. Promise can kiss my a**.
    Soooo.. Show me what a n00b I am, oh great ones. I've built over 100 PCs since 1998 for myself, friends, families, and customers... and I've never seen an issue like this one! I'm no dummy, but please don't assume too much. Other pros on here know full well you can forget the most simple mundane detail in spite of experience! I want to solve this problem. I am on the verge of shelling out for a new motherboard and processor of the 939 pin variety.. and am now wary of MSI's long awaited socket 939 K8 Neo2 board despite it's awesome reviews. MSI has never really given me trouble before.. but I don't really want to spend money to the order of $200+ for that damned Gigabyte board. Gigabyte has always been good to me as well. Save my wallet! PLEASE!!!
    Thanks so much everyone, I tried very hard not to leave out any details!
    Az (Ian)
    You can reach me on Yahoo or AIM just about any time, and I will check here frequently.
    The startup problem might just be a screwy psu. Your antec *should* be able to power your stuff just fine, but maybe it is defective in some strange way.
    What is your 3dmark03 score? If it is 3000-4000, (approx perf. level of ati 9600xt), then it is fine.
    Check your memory using memtest86+, and try underclocking it to ddr333.
    UNplug usb devices, and see if it speeds up boot. Also, I would not recommend bios 1.8 since people seem to have some troubles with it.
    Also, try disabling agp fast writes, disabling spread spectrum, and maybe boosting ram voltage a tiny bit.
    Try booting without your audigy plugged in, and try booting barebones (nothing but 1 hard drive with os) and see what happens.
    I'm no expert, but you might get lucky trying these steps.

  • Experiencing strange performance issues after a hard drive failure - Help!

    I bought my mid-2012 i5 Macbook Pro in December of 2012. I realized when shopping for computers that I wanted an SSD installed, but that it would be a lot cheaper if I bought the SSD and installed it rather than customizing it in the Apple Store. So I bought a nice Samsung 128GB SSD (820 or 840 - can't remember which) and did the installation. I went ahead and installed two 4GB sticks of RAM while I was at it. Everything was just dandy: my boot time was just under 9 seconds, and all of my data-heavy apps booted in no-time at all. Then all **** broke loose.
    About two weeks ago, I opened my computer and I got the dreaded "? File Folder" notification with a gray screen. I immediately thought hard drive failure. No matter how many times I tried to boot, the computer just would not talk to the SSD anymore. I used Internet Recovery to get into my Disk Utility, and the entire partition was gone. I assumed the worst but wanted to be sure - I bought a hard drive enclosure and hooked the SSD up to an older Macbook, and lo and behold: it worked perfectly. I was not only able to recover data, but I could write data to the drive. Nothing appeared wrong with the drive when I plugged it into the old Macbook, but my newer Macbook still would not recognize it. Even my fiance's Windows 7 PC recognized the drive as "?" (since it was formatted for Mac, but hey - it recognized that it existed!).
    I decided to re-install the original HDD that came with the 2012 Macbook Pro (the one I removed in favor of the SSD). I was able to re-install the OS and I can boot up at will, but everything is different. The performance issues are extremely noticeable. I can't have more than two programs running at one time without the spinning wheel of death appearing. My boot time went from 9 seconds to 2 minutes. I know that SSDs increase performance, so there is some slight performance downgrade to be expected since I am using a mechanical drive now -- but these are not normal issues. Sometimes I can't even type a web address into Safari without the wheel appearing. iTunes, and specifically the App Store, take minutes to open - and I have no media is on iTunes.
    Here's the thing: I have tried just about anything to fix this problem that Google can pull up. I've verified the HDD, I've booted into Safe Mode, reset RAM and cache, run benchmarks and other performance tests, entered all sorts of weird language into Command Prompt, and studied Activity Monitor - I can't find a single red flag that would indicate anything being wrong. It appears to be a perfectly functioning, updated computer.
    I'm thinking a piece of hardware failed that triggered the error with the SSD. I'm not really sure though since all of my performance tests indicate perfectly functioning hardware. I'm a little afraid to take it to the Apple store because I know they'll tell me it's my fault for opening the computer and replacing the hard drive in the first place.
    Any ideas? At this point anything to salvage this computer would be helpful.

    Spin Cycle,
    were those other computers which were able to recognize your SSD in its external enclosure also Macs? Do you know if your SSD has its most recent firmware revision installed? (If it doesn’t, its installer can be downloaded from the Samsung SSD firmware page for burning onto a bootable DVD.) I haven’t used the 830 myself, so I don’t know what its reputation is with Macs. I have an 840 PRO in my MacBook Pro, which has been trouble-free for me, but my understanding is that the 840 EVO has had trouble with Macs in its earlier firmware revisions — so I’m wondering if the 830 has a known track record with Macs, good or bad.

  • Performance Issues in Win 7 (Pro to Ultimate)

    I use Avast as my virus protection.  I have recently tried to uninstall Unity Web Player, but I can't get it out, no matter what I do (which includes removing all "unity" info in the registry, all folders with the player info, and through
    the control panel which brings up an error box that won't go away and basically tells me there is a problem with almost all files on my computer).
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     The Area 51 is all full of errors, that started two days after that OS was installed.  I haven't even looked at the laptop yet.  So far as I know, only the MAC is working right!!!
    I spend so much time trying to update and keep these things running right, but it's (obviously) not working, and I'm frustrated beyond words!  I'm also not wealthy, so I can't even take them to someone else to see what the problem is.  Crying is
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    Hi,
    Like Zigzag said, what's your real issue, removing Unity Web Player or computer running?
    If it's removing Unity Web Player, please contact its support to ask how to remove the components remained thoroughly.
    If it's system running issue, please let us know the exact situation. What's the performance issue? Did your application not running or computer slowly?
    Karen Hu
    TechNet Community Support

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             ATTR05C     "SPEC BUS + DG1K902190
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        ENDIF.
        READ TABLE T_PRT INTO WA_PRT WITH KEY GUID_PR = WA_PR-GUID_PR.
        IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
          WA_FINAL-PRTXT   = WA_PRT-PRTXT.
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            IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
    *& TO FILL ATTR20A,PRVSY FOR DIFF STCTS AND CCNGN FOR     |
    *&  EACH LOOP                                             |
              IF WA_FINAL-ATTR20A  IS INITIAL
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                                                        " Subid which have multiple stcts fields.
               IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
                  WA_FINAL-ATTR05A       = WA_PRGEN-ATTR05A.
                  WA_FINAL-ATTR05B       = WA_PRGEN-ATTR05B.
                  WA_FINAL-ATTR05C       = WA_PRGEN-ATTR05C. " + DG1K902190
                  WA_FINAL-ATTR10A       = WA_PRGEN-ATTR10A.
                  WA_FINAL-ATTR20A       = WA_PRGEN-ATTR20A.
                 ENDIF.
                  IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
                    WA_FINAL-TEXT1   = WA_V_TCAV201-TEXT1.    "SUBID-TEXT1
                  ENDIF.
                  IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
                    WA_FINAL-PRVSY  = WA_PNTPR-PRVSY.   "PROD NO
                    WA_FINAL-GRVSY  = WA_PNTPR-GRVSY.   "LOGICAL SYS GROUP
                  ENDIF.
    * TO Remove the Leading Zeros from prvsy
                  SHIFT WA_FINAL-PRVSY LEFT DELETING LEADING '0'.
                  IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
                    WA_FINAL-QUAL_STA  = WA_CORSTA-QUAL_STA.
                  ENDIF.
                  IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
                    IF WA_PR-CHTSP = '0'.
                      WA_FINAL-CRTSP   = WA_PR-CRTSP.
                      WA_final-chtsp   = W_DATE.
                    ENDIF.
                    IF WA_PR-CHTSP NE '0'.
                      WA_FINAL-CRTSP   = WA_PR-CRTSP.
                      WA_final-chtsp   = WA_PR-CHTSP.
                    ENDIF.
                  ENDIF.
                  IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
                    WA_FINAL-PRTXT   = WA_PRT-PRTXT.
                  ENDIF.
                ENDIF.
              ENDIF.
          IF SY-SUBRC = 0. " + DG1K902198
                WA_FINAL-GUID_PR      = WA_PRCTSC-GUID_PR.
                WA_FINAL-STCTS        = WA_PRCTSC-STCTS.
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              ENDIF.
             READ TABLE T_CTSNUMC INTO WA_CTSNUMC WITH KEY GUID_CTSNUMC = WA_PRCTSC-GUID_CTSNUMC.
              IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
                WA_FINAL-CCNGN        = WA_CTSNUMC-CCNGN.
              ENDIF.
              APPEND WA_FINAL TO T_FINAL.
              CLEAR WA_FINAL.
            ENDIF.
        ENDLOOP.
        APPEND WA_FINAL TO T_FINAL.
        CLEAR WA_FINAL.
      ENDLOOP.
    Any suggestions to improve the performance will be appreciated!
    Thanks & Regards,
    Kittu
    Edited by: Kittu on Mar 23, 2009 4:03 PM

    Hi
    Instead of using the LOOP under LOOP directly. use the read statement for second loop and from that index u start the loop.
    eg:
    LOOP AT ITAB1.
    read table itab2 with key field1 = itab1 - field1.
    if sy-subrc = 0.
    loop at itab2 index sy-tabix.
    if  itab2-field1 = itab1 - field1.
    < do u  r operations >
    else.
      exit.
    endif.
    ENDLOOP.
    this will increase the performance

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