Performance Check: How 200 New Programs Slow Down Your PC (Part 2)
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February 24th, 2010 written by Christoph in Windows Insights
Too many programs will slow down your computer to an absolute crawl. The TuneUp Blog team proved this theory, with a PC performance check that involved installing 200 new programs. The end result: The computer was basically unusable following the test.
The experiment also left the TuneUp Blog team and our readers with more questions. Is it possible to get this machine running again by removing all of these unnecessary applications? Can the original performance be restored? Or, will this machine be plagued forever with error messages, crashes, and an underwhelming performance?
See all of these programs and pop-ups? We got rid of the 200 programs we installed in a previous blog post!
Coming to the machine’s rescue
If your machine is in this kind of state, the obvious recommendation would be to wipe the hard disk and reinstall Windows! But, this is not an option for folks who have set up their operating system and programs just the way they like them. Backing up and restoring settings, e-mail accounts, contacts, program configurations, etc. is a tough chore and, often takes more effort than trying to clean up the original Windows installation. So, what happens if we uninstall all of these programs again? Do you think this will make the system usable again?
The uninstallation process
This is basically one of the dullest jobs anyone could possibly think of—we opened up the Control Panel and uninstalled the 200 programs one by one. Since we didn’t want to skew the results, we avoided simultaneous uninstallations, which also could cause conflicts with the system files and the Windows registry.
The entire process took us more than a day to complete. Since the computer was extremely sluggish, a simple program often took up to 10 minutes to be completely removed. In the cases of huge software products, such as the Nero 9 Suite, we waited about 20 minutes.
Benchmarks, benchmarks, benchmarks
Just as we were on the verge of losing all feeling in our fingers from clicking “Yes” on every “Do you really want to remove the selected application?” dialog box, the job was finally finished. Then, we started on the tests. We performed all of the benchmarks conducted during our last run. As with the previous performance check, we used the computer on a regular basis for a couple of days and carried out each test three times to get rid of all of the discrepancies and variations. To give you an exact comparison, we included the benchmark results of our last run in the following tables below.
As a reference guide, “Clean PC” represents the machine’s original state. Windows 7 had been freshly installed, and only a handful of programs were added. The machine was at its best possible performance. “Junk PC” represents the performance of the computer after the 200 programs had been installed, while “Restored PC” represents the performance of the computer after the 200 programs had been uninstalled.
Boot-up performance
This benchmark measured the amount of time it took the machine to load the last automatically running program on the startup list.
It was almost back to normal. Windows 7 took 1 minute and 36 seconds to boot up.
This came to us as a bit of a surprise. After we removed the 200 programs, the boot-up time was almost completely restored to its original state. It took only 14 seconds longer than usual to fully load Windows. We figured it was because of the high degree of disk fragmentation. But, let’s be clear about something—what difference does 14 seconds really make, especially when the 200 programs made the PC boot up in more than seven minutes, right? Big thumbs up for Windows 7 here, as it did not let the programs ruin the boot-up process too much.
Shutdown performance
We then measured the time it took from clicking the “Shut Down” button to actually powering down.
The shutdown process returned to its original state.
Windows 7 took exactly 11 seconds to power down the machine, and that is exactly the way it was before we installed all of those programs. Fantastic!
Virus scan performance
We used Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) to test how long it took to scan 1.5 GByte worth of RAR archives.
The results went back to a normal level yet again. We were happy to see that the 200 programs did not have an impact on scanning performance. This was expected, as MSE’s performance entirely depended on the hard disk speed and processor power. And, since all of the unnecessary background processes from those 200 programs had been removed, there was no interference.
Application performance
The TuneUp Blog team also measured the performance of selected applications. We started with the time it took for Outlook 2010 Beta to load and display the first e-mail. We then started Google Chrome with eight tabs. Like the last run, we also tested how long it took our computer to fire up Windows Media Player and start playing a 1080p full HD video file.
The results were fascinating. No matter how often we tried, Google Chrome never returned to its original performance. Again, we think this is due to hard disk fragmentation. (Or, did any of these programs actually interfere with Google’s browser, so that it now takes 50% longer to start up?)
Windows Media Player needed much more time to load our test video file.
Windows Media Player produced another weird result. After we removed the 200 programs one by one, it needed nine seconds to load up the HD video file—six seconds longer than under a clean install. This is inexcusable and probably due to the many codecs that were added, replaced, and removed with some of the 200 programs. Don’t worry; we made sure that the Windows Prefetch feature optimized Windows Media Player, to make it launch faster.
Processor, graphics and memory performance
We watched WinRAR compress our three test files and frankly could not believe our eyes. Instead of taking two or three minutes (like we were used to), WinRAR needed more than four minutes to compress the files, which took even longer than when we loaded the PC with the 200 programs. There is simply no other explanation than that fragmentation really slowed down things. Even when we compressed the three files, deleted the ZIP file, restarted the PC, and repeated these steps five times, the results stayed the same.
During the compression, the CPU was never utilized more than 20%. That means hard disk performance really suffered from the 200 programs we installed.
Also, during the 1080p full HD playback benchmark, we noticed that every 10 to 15 minutes, the movie started to stutter for at least 10 seconds. This did not happen under the original and freshly installed Windows configuration.
Photo editing performance
Using Corel PhotoImpact X3, we applied the “Enhance” filter to a 30 MB image file. This test should have proved how fast both the processor and the graphics chip are able to render images.
Again, this task was slowed down by the 200 programs that created so much background activity. After removing all of the applications, everything went back to normal. Just like before the installation, PhotoImpact was able to enhance the picture in exactly 21 seconds.
Cinebench R10 performance
Cinebench is still one of our favorite benchmarks, as it clearly shows your PC’s processor and graphics chip’s capabilities. The more points you get, the faster your PC is.
Cinebench performance dropped as well, but the difference was quite minimal. It took just a bit longer to render the sample image on the screen, which resulted in a slightly lower score for our test laptop.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat performance
This benchmark is based on the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat, which was released in Q4 2009.
What a disaster! Gaming performance did not return to the original levels; it basically stayed the same (expect for the SunShafts test from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.). Again, we blame the high level of fragmentation. The game was not able to load all of the textures fast enough from the hard disk to ensure a continuous frame rate.
PCMark Vantage performance
PCMark Vantage was the last benchmark on our list. Again, this is an all around program that tests the PC in different areas, such as music editing, and gaming. The more points PCMark spits out in the end, the faster your PC is.
It was interesting to note that the machine was not able to achieve its original performance this time around. The total scores for our cleaned up system were better than the scores obtained with the 200 programs installed, which was expected, but we were unable to reach 2624 points, even though we performed the tests several times.
Overall performance and stability
In this last section of our test, we wanted to express our personal feelings—how responsive did we find the system and how we thought Windows 7 performed. We used the system for a full week for traveling, business, and a bit of gaming, as well. We edited photos and even hooked up an external Blu-ray drive to watch a couple of HD films. Overall, Windows 7 performed faster without the 200 programs installed, but we felt that the performance suffered quite a bit compared to the original state. Some of our programs did not start up as fast as they used to, menus took a bit longer to show up, and movies stuttered here and there. It was as if we were using a 1.4 GHz (rather than our 1.86 GHz) machine. The TuneUp Blog team believes the system’s performance was “good” when we first installed Windows 7, whereas now it’s only “okay”.
Leftovers and junk
Raw performance is one thing we wanted to take a look at; we were also very keen to see how many “leftovers” we had from the 200 programs, such as temporary files, unnecessary shortcuts, and empty and entire folders.
Let’s start with the desktop. Even though we got rid of all 200 programs, the desktop, especially the Start Menu, were still cluttered with dozens of invalid shortcuts and folders. The next thing we noticed was the number of files on the hard disk. On our clean PC, we had about 101,000 files (44.9 GByte in total). This number moved up to 190,000 files, which amounted to a total of 70.2 GByte, as we installed the 200 programs; this was a massive jump! The sad part was that, after we removed all of the programs, there were still 114.000 files left—and 53 GByte worth of data. There were two reasons for that. Firstly, uninstallers are not that effective; they leave traces behind! Secondly, the 200 programs created dozens of system restore points that amounted to a lot of unnecessary data.
Fragmentation had a big impact on performance. Before we started our rampage and installed the 200 programs, we regularly used TuneUp Utilities defragmentation feature to keep hard disk access times as fast as possible. So, the fragmentation level was usually 0-5% at most. After we installed and removed the 200 programs, TuneUp Drive Defrag told us that more than 54% of the hard disk was fragmented. This is probably the reason why the performance did not go back to normal levels.
Too much junk left
In some cases, performance could be restored by simply uninstalling the 200 programs. In other cases, and probably due to the mess we created, overall responsiveness and gaming tests in particular suffered immensely. The bottom line is that our test laptop wasn’t the same anymore. It was sluggish, and there was so much junk left on it, that the system was no fun to work with.
We were almost ready to back up the entire system and start from scratch. But, wait! That’s not fun either. How about we spice things up a bit? Curious? Just stay tuned for our next blog posts of this series.
Written by Christoph Laumann and Sandro Villinger
Read the next part of our 200 programs experiment – Performance and Stability Update.
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February 25, 2010 at 11:07 am
Just a suggestion, what about cleaning the defraging the registry of computer to see if that makes in noticeable difference to performance? Might also be useful to test defraging the registry without cleaning it first.
Would be an interesting since many people consider cleaning the registry to be a waste of time.
February 25, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Hi Roger,
there will be some other parts of that series and also more test-scenarios. Of course we’ll kepp you suggestion in mind, thanks for that.
Best,
Alexandra
March 6, 2010 at 5:39 pm
I agree with Roger on this it would be very interesting to know this. Many forums say don’t even touch the registry at all as you can make things worse, not even with commercial registry cleaners. As already said, many say that it doesn’t make a difference anyway. Sometimes I wonder if that’s true or not.
Maybe you could try that test as well!!!
March 7, 2010 at 1:51 am
Hi Andrew, I think cleaning the registry is not so much an optimization technique as it is a way to troubleshoot problems. Example: You install a program, it puts an entry inside the “RUN” folder in the registry. Result, of course, it launches every time you run Windows. Now you uninstall it. This is what might happen: In some cases the uninstaller is simply not good enough and forgets to remove the entry. Which in turn tesults in error messages when you start Windows. ANNOYING!
This is 1 error. On our test bed (with the 200 programs) we found actually 2000 registry invalid entries. Stay tuned for a future blog post on the results….it is quite disturbing how much garbage programs leave on your hard disk and in your registry.
Best, Sandro
July 15, 2010 at 10:36 pm
This is a nice set of performance tests, but at the same it is also somewhat misleading. The problems you stated in the beginning I believe are more due to simple user negligence than a problem with the programs themselves. I’m unaware just exactly what programs were installed, and there is the chance that you installed a lot of spyware/malware, but a lot has to do with letting the software run wild on your PC; too many programs running at startup, allowing the software to reconfigure your PC any way they saw fit to, etc. Without proper user oversight, any single software installation has the possibility to create a small level of chaos in your PC, you simply magnified it 200-fold.
But this does provide a great demonstration of what happens when you install software willy-nilly and the consequences of doing so. Users need to exercise caution when installing unfamiliar software and pay attention to what the software is doing or wanting to do to their PC, and also learn how to properly configure the software and manage its control over their PC. Special attention should be placed on startup entries, as this can be the most devastating to PC performance.
I recommend the use of a fantastic program I just started using yesterday called CCleaner. It’s a good all-in-one program to remove useless files taking up space after software uninstallations such as temp files and orphaned files (including desktop and menu entries). It also works well to manage your startup programs. I also has a registry cleaner, however a number of PC experts are split on the benefits of using such things, and I personally don’t recommend it unless you know what you are doing, but it’s there and it works well.
July 16, 2010 at 12:10 pm
I think it’s both the fault of the user and the programs themselves – this is what I meant to show.
The list of programs we installed can be found here: http://blog.tune-up.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Sheet_210110.pdf. Quote from the Part 1: “We selected these 200 based on the most used programs on Wakoopa (a software usage tracker), the top downloads at Downloads.com, from various “Top 10 Programs you need” lists and from our personal experience with what our readers use most often. It is an even mixture of very popular and huge software suites—such as Pinnacle Studio 14 or Nero 9 Full—and useful freeware applications such as Skype, WinZip and Opera. We even selected some utter junk (for example, Screensavers) that we very often find on typical PCs used by kids.”
Actually, despite of the many program installations, Microsoft Security Essentials (and other spyware checkers) couldn’t find a lot of spyware processes…I’d have to go back to my logs, but from I remember I only saw 1 or 2, which didn’t cause a significant performance impact (less dan 1% CPU, 1 MB RAM). But a whole lot of toolbars and useless processes were added….these were the main causes of the performance drain.
yep, as you stated, it’s a demonstration of what will happen if you install to much on your PC. It’s something I have seen on just so many PCs out there. You’re right in every point: Use caution, learn to configure software, get control.
August 22, 2010 at 1:04 am
Wonderful!,Thank You For The Great Efforts!
I Have Question In Mind Please…
Can This Benchmarks Results Happen Also To SSD?
Because Most Friends Advice To Buy One.
Respectfully
Elina
P.S: Sorry For My English,I Try To Improve It!
August 22, 2010 at 5:48 am
Hi Elina,
Thanks a lot for reading. I really love to see people taking interest in technology. And now for your question, which I daresay is an extremely good one. If the same benchmarks are done on an SSD, there might be slight improvements in results, due to the fast hard disk read write speed, but overall your computer will be extremely slow, as nothing can avoid the junk left by commercial softwares when they are uninsualled. So from this point of view, buying an SSD is pointless. However if you are a download fanatic (like me!) I have a few suggestions. Primarily get a dedicated uninstaller to uninstall software which you will no longer use. I recommend Revo Uninstaller. Then invest in a decent Windows Optimization Software. Tune-Up Utilities would be your best bet. Hold your breath a little as Tune Up gives great discounts in the holiday season where you might really find the bang for your buck. And for SSD if you can afford, replace all your hard drives with SSD. If that sounds too costly you might just replace the boot drive with an SSD as I did and really gain faster bootups.
Hope I could help
Best,
Jeet.
August 22, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Hi Elina,
yep, Deboyjoti Das is absolutely right. SSD performs way faster, especially when accessing smaller files and paging out data to the hard disk if your PC is low on memory. And that’s exactly what happens with a lot of programs installed.
The question is: What are you planing to do with the SSD? If its just for basic day-to-day work (e.g. e-mail, browsing, light photo editing), I don’t think its worth the money. But if you’re into a bit more higher-end applications, you might benefit heavily from an SSD!
Looking forward to your response,
Best, Sandro
August 23, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Dear Friends: Jeet, Sandro, and All Nice guys In This Great Blog Site,
Thank You Very Much For The Fast and Perfect Informative Reply’s!
Dear Jeet: Thanks For Perfect Explaining Things To Me,
Now I Know What Exactly The Difference Between The HDD,SSD
In Performance Issues, If The Same Benchmarks Done To SSD,
My Mind Is Cool Now,Thanks To You!!!
Your suggestions: SSD As OS Drive,Wonderful!,This Well Fast
The Boot Process,Thank You Very Much For The Brilliant Idea,I’ll Do It!
Revo Uninstaller,Amazing!!! I Downloaded Trial Version
Its Work Perfect On My Windows 7 64 bit PC!
I’ll Never Thoughts That I Have All These Useless Files On My HDD!
Its Free Up Great Space On It,Without Harm Any Software Or Service
That I Work With,Thank You Very Much For Your Recommended!
TuneUp Utilities,Incredible!!!!!,Installed The Trial 2010 Version,
and All I Can Say: For The First Time My PC Back To Its Performance
9 months ago!!!,Startup and Shutdown Fast!,Increased Stability and
Responsive Of The Windows,Especially Very Noticeable When I Do
Multitasking Software’s,It’s Have Carefully Selected Tools,I Loved
The Customize Windows Tab,Its Make The Windows 7 More Beautiful,
And Again Without Harm Any Function Or Service Or Program On My PC!
I Look Forward To Discount Price,Though The Current Price Is Very Good
Comparing To Its Useful Features and Improvements That Done To Me!!!
Sounds Like I’m Out Of Article Now,But I’m Surprised With
The Improvements Gains From TuneUp Utilities!
I’m Not Advertise Here!!!,I’m Only Say Give Your Self and Give These
Charm Software’s A Chance!!!
Thank You Very Much Jeet For Great Help!!!
Dear Sandro: First Of All I Would Thank You,and Thanks Christoph,
and Thank All The Staff Behind This Great Website,For All
Of Your Hard and Great Efforts In Both Blogs and Benchmarks,
Long Ago I Wonder About These Stuffs and Experiments,
Now I Completely Read All Parts and Updates For This Article,
also Navigate To Another Great Informative Links Given In This Blog.
It’s Real Opportunity For Me and For The People To Learn About PC
and Other Technology’s From Great Experience Bloggers and Friends,
So I Would Thank You Again For This!
Now For Your Question About My Tasks On The PC,I Do Both, Basic
and Heavy Applications:
Airbrushing,Filtering Images(Photoshop CS4 64-bit Edition)
HD Video Editing(Sony Vegas pro 9)
3D Modeling(Autodesk 3ds Max 2010 64-bit Edition)
Also I Do A lot Of Downloads, and Try New Programs To Compare
Them Together To Choose The Best For Me and My Limited Skills(LOL!)
Even Sometimes Playing HD Games,When I’m Boring!
My!!!,Sorry For Long Talk!!!
My PC Configurations:
PSU: NZXT 1000W(New Upgrade)
CPU: Intel Core i7-920 2.6Ghz
RAM: 8GB Dual Channel DDR3-1066
GPU: GeForce GTX 480 2 SLI Cards DX11(New Upgrade)
HDD: 2 Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM SATA2
ODD: 1 LG BD-RW,1 LG DVD DL-RW
Monitor: HP HD Resolution:1920x1080p(New Upgrade)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Edition,Continuously Updated.
So,Can I Really Benefits From SSDs,For These Tasks?
Or At Least Buy One For OS,Like Dear Jeet Idea?
Any Help Appreciated!!!
Thanks In Advance,With Respect For All!!!!!
Elina.
August 24, 2010 at 5:25 am
Hello Elina,
You are most welcome ! Its enthralling to see we could help you ! And as you have clearly mentioned your usage, what I think is YES-you will definately gain manifold performance increase using an SSD as a boot drive and an application drive. Using an SSD as a boot drive not only accelerates fast booting, but also will accelerate faster startup of the resource heavy applications you use. (click on the ‘superfetch’ tag in this page. It’s in the right sidebar). For SSD I recommend Intel X25-V SATA SSD. I personally use it as my boot drive. I brought it recently when one of the esteemed Tune Up developer-Tibor suggested me to do so, and now I really thank him for helping me take the decision. Well this drive is sweetly priced at $100 in India (dirt cheap), and has a capacity of 40GB. Weighs only 68grams and has the SATA II interface. Its a good product and you can use it. Well do let us know of your final decision and keep reading our blog !
Best,
Jeet.
P.S. There was a time when Revo Uninstaller was completely free. Then as the software became famous, the developers started charging for it. Well there’s still a free version on their site. Try searching it. Although it won’t have the extra features like cache cleaning and duplicate finding, don’t worry, Tune Up Utilities will handle it with ease and a lot lot lot ! More. And as for the free version, its core ‘uninstalling’ engine remains the same, so I think the free one will be your best bet if you are going for Tune Up !
And for discounts, Sandro will be the safest person to ask !
August 24, 2010 at 11:04 am
Hi Elina, Jeet said it all: In your case, you would HEAVILY benefit from an SSD. I would refer to TomsHardwares excellent SSD reviews and news stories over at http://www.tomshardware.com/s/reviews/ssd/ to find the best possible hard disk for your needs!
And THANKS for your kind words! We do our very best to keep this blog interesting and something special!
Best, Sandro
August 29, 2010 at 1:22 am
Dear Friends: Jeet, Sandro,I’m Very Sorry For Late Response,
(Related To Study and Exams!)
Dear Jeet: Thank You Very Much For Continuous Help!
I Read The SuperFetch Blog(Thanks Dear Tibor For Great Article!)
and Yes!,If Windows 7 Doesn’t automatically disables SuperFetch,
Disk Defragmenter,etc…,I Do This Manually!,Thanks For Aware Me!
Thanks Again For Recommends!,Yes: I Found Intel SSD’s Advertised
As A High Performance SSD’s In The Markets!
Free Revo Uninstaller: Found It!,Its Very Good!,And Yes!,
Tune Up Utilities Fill The Missing Features Perfectly!
Thanks Dear Jeet!,You Are Very Kind And Helpful Person!
Dear Sandro:Thank You Very Much For Courage Me To Go SSD!
And Thanks To Refer Me To TomsHardwares Wonderful Site!
I Spend A Great Time:Reading,Comparing Various SSD Brands
And Models In These Interesting Reviews!!!,Also Understanding
SSD’s More And More!
Finally!!!,I Liked This One:
Intel X25-M 80GB SATA II SSD(AKA:Intel X25-M G2)
It Has Good Performance To Price Ratio,and Good Capacity,
At Least For W7 OS And The Heavy Every Day Used Applications!
Then I Went To My Local PC Stores,and I Found It At Approximately
Price(235$)With 2.5″ To 3.5″ Driver Bay Adapter(Adapter Bracket)
Though,I’m Not Bought It Yet.
First:I Would Like To Know Your Opinions,My Friends,
It’s Good For Me? I Trust You And Trust Your Advices!!!
You Are Welcome Dear Sandro!,That’s My True Feelings About Every
Great Job Done To Benefit All The People Around The World!
I Really Feel Happy Every Time I Visit This Website!!!
Before I Forget!,Dear Sandro,If You Can Tell Me About The
Tune Up Utilities Discounts, I’ll Be Very Thankful!
And Curious Question…
How Can Some Friends Add Their Avatar(Not Found On My Profile)
Also How Can They Use Smiles(Not Found On Comments Board)
BTW: I Use Latest Firefox Web Browser.
Sorry For Troubled You With Me My Friends!,
And Thanks For Your Patience!
Respectfully,
Elina.
August 29, 2010 at 5:51 am
Hi Elina,
Thanks again for those kind words of yours which is sure to motivate the Tune Up Team.
On the solid-state drive, its perfect for you. Use that drive as the boot drive and the drive to install the complex softwares you use and voila! your performance increases! Also please don’t disable superfetch. Keep it enabled. Actually although it takes more ram theoritically, Superfetch improves your startup performance. And for avatar, go to Gravatar.com, create a profile there and upload your avatar. Then come back here and use the same email id that you used to sign up to Gravatar and bingo! Your avatar comes up! Many blogs specially the WordPress ones (Like Tune Up) use Gravatar. As soon as you go to the site, everything will be clear to you.
And Sandro will surely let you know about the discounts, and promotions, if any. Also note that Tune Up Upgrade cycle is nearing, so stay tuned !
Thanks again for your kind words ! Do be with us and ask your hearts content .
Best,
Jeet.
August 29, 2010 at 5:56 am
Oh! I forgot Elina, as you type smilies in the cellphones, the same way it works here to. Type : – ) without the spaces (if I did not give the spaces than it would have been automatically converted to the smiley below) and it gives you
Firefox is a great browser, but do try Google Chrome.
Hope this helps.
Best, Jeet.
August 29, 2010 at 11:25 am
You Are Most Welcome Dear Jeet !
Go Go Jeet! 
(LOL!) Thank You!!!
Nice Friends Like You !,Wonderful Site Like This !
Deserve More Than That !!!
Dear Jeet: You Are Great As Always !!!,Thank You To Courage
Me To Use This SSD,Then I’ll Go And Buy It!
Superfetch: It Will Increase Performance Even On SSD?
It Will Not Harm It Like Some Friends Say?
Gravatar.com: Magical !!!,You Are Genius!!!,Thank You!!!
Google Chrome: Great!!!,It’s Faster Than Firefox,Specially
On Stream Video Sites Like Youtube!,Thaaaank You!!!!!
Dear Sandro:I Hope If You Can Tell Me About Tuneup Discounts,
I’ll Be Very Thankful,Thanks Again For Your Help!!!
Thanks For Great Help Dear Jeet.
With Grateful And Respect For All,
Elina.
August 29, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Welcome Elina,
its that simple. Hope this helps !
Seems you really got a lot of fun out of smilies and Gravatar
Well and for Superfetch, let Windows decide if it requires it or not. After a new Windows 7 installation, if you see it is enabled then Windows needs it, if disabled then Window does not
Sandro will surely get back to you.
Best,
Jeet.
August 29, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Hey Elina, sure, we’ll let you know about possible TuneUp Discounts and specials
So check back regularly!!
Btw. I love that the community is starting to grow. Guys, spread the word, so that more and more great folks like you come to our blog!
Best wishes and have a wonderful Sunday,
Sandro
August 29, 2010 at 7:29 pm
@Elina, just subscribe to the Tune Up Rss, and make sure you always get the freshest scoop of Tune Up’s awesome blog.
@Sandro, We really need a forum. A dedicated forum to Windows optimization will be a great addition. A new domain, an aesthetic design=sure success.
In India the Sunday Sun has already set long ago
Best, Jeet.
August 30, 2010 at 11:50 am
Hey Jeet,
as all of your feedback, the forum is a great idea. Unfortunately a distinguished forum is not planned for now. But we will see, what future brings. Of course we will always keep you up to speed.
Best,
Alexandra
August 29, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Thanks Dear Jeet!,It’s Nice Experience!
!!!
Alright!,That’s Very Simple!,He’s The Boss
Tune Up RSS:Absolutely!,That’s Great!
Dear Jeet: We Also Need IRC For Annoying Persons Like Me!(LOL!).
And Jeet: Maybe The Sun Fading,But The Great People There Will Not!!!
Thanks Dear Sandro!,Of Course I Will !
Thanks For Your Kind Words!,And You Are The Great People Here!!!
Dear Sandro: I Just Bought The SSD!,But I Think We Are Not Finish
Here At This Point!,I Have Something In Mind,To Benefit Other Friends
Who Will Read This Blog On The Future…
We Already Know That’s SSD Faster Than HDD,That’s OK!
Now I’ll Do Comparison For Superfetch Feature On The SSD Situation!
A: Boot And Applications Enabled (Default)
B: Boot Only Enabled (Registry Tweak),More Info At:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms940847%28WinEmbedded.5%29.aspx
C: Disabled (Superfetch Service Disabled)
Of Course I Learned A lot From You My Friends!,And I’ll Take
Your Steps With These Tests!(i.e: Give The Time For Superfetch
To Adopt To The Changes In Each Case,etc…)
Any Advice Will Help Me A Lot!!!
Please Consider This As A little Tiny Add To Your Great Blog!,
And A Small Present For All My Tune Up Friends!!!
After All: This Is My #1 Favorite And Special Technology Website!!!
And I’ll Spread Its Knowledge Where Ever I Go!
That’s Will Make Me Happy To Feel I Can Help People Around Me!
Best Wishes For All !!!!!
Your Friend,
Elina.
August 30, 2010 at 8:38 am
Thanks again Elina,
Of course, we will love to have it, contact Sandro, he is the editor of our blog, and an exceptionally good person to work with.
Best, Jeet.
August 30, 2010 at 11:48 am
Dear Elina,
First of all, thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas. It is really great to get such detailed feedback on our product and our blog, this will definitely drive some ideas. You also found us at Facebook. That’s great and I suggested Sandro and Jeet to become friends.
Regarding the promotions: The best way to be informed about all promotions of TuneUp Utilities is to subscribe to our newsletter. E.g. The English One: http://www.tune-up.com/newsletter/
Have a great day,
Alexandra
p.s. Great that you managed Gravatar. And thx to Jeet for providing the instructions. Each blog, that uses Gravatar as we do, and where you setup your account with your defined email-address will automatically display your picture if you comment.
August 30, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Hey Elina – amazing idea!! Benchmarking SSD with all three settings will be extremely valuable – but I hope you understand that this is A LOT of work
Just an example: For this 200 Programs blog post, it took us MANY days to even set up the machine and let Superfetch adapt. We needed to perform all tests 3-5 times – or even more in cases when Superfetch (or other processes) affected the results noticeably.
So please, only perform these benchmarks, if you are sure about the amount of work that’s going into that
Please share your findings!!
Btw. AMAZING community that’s growing here!
Best, Sandro
August 31, 2010 at 4:09 am
You Are Welcome Dear Jeet!,Thanks Dear!
Dear Gorgeous Alex,You Are The Most Welcome !!!
I’ve Got 3 Wonderful Friends !!!,I’m So So Happy!
Thanks Dear Alexandra,You Are So Kind !,Thanks For The Link!,
Now I’ll Keep Updated With TuneUp!
Since This Is My First Month Ever On My Life Using The Internet,
I’ll Do My Best!,(Shocked!!!),Unfortunately,We Not Allowed To Use
The Net (Even WAP’s On Mobiles)In My Country! “Security Issues”.
I Was Depending On Local Technology Magazines To Know
What’s Going On The World!,But When I Came Here To Beautiful
Jordan To Continue My University Study,I Started To Use It!
Sorry,I’m Out Of Article Again !!!
Thanks Again Dear!
Thank You Very Much Dear Sandro!,You Are Extremely Right
As Always!!!,Even When I Want To Make It Simple Benchmark,
(From The User Perspective) And Using Simple Tools Like:
Windows 7 – Restart Time (Tool That Scaling Boot Time).
Info: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/720-restart-time.html
My Eyes+Stop Watch+Task Manager+Paper Stacks !!!(LOL!).
So It’s Not Reliable At All!,Even For Me!,I Couldn’t Keep
Up With The Speed Of The SSD,It’s Fast!!!(At Least I Learned
That’s True 100%),Also There’s Some Stuff Came To Me:
MLC,SLC, Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_cell
I Mean:Even If I Got Some Result’s,It Will Not Be Typical,
(Related To The Different Two NAND Technology Architecture).
And Don’t Forget The New Guest (TRIM)!
Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM
And Things Got Complicated In My Mind !!!,It’s Not Easy,
At Least For Me Like The HDD!,Yes I Admit!,I Can’t!!!
So,I’m Very Sorry My Friends To Disappoint You,
I Feel Very Shy,And Helpless!
BUT: Not Hopeless!,Because I Have Great Friends Will Help
Me Here!,Yes,I Will Rely On You Again My Friends!!!
Please Dear TuneUp Great Team: If You Can Put These
Benchmarks On Your Schedule,And Make Them Someday!!!
Please,I Bet Many People Wondering About These Stuffs!
Because I Couldn’t Found Them Any Where !!!
I Can’t Wait To No What Will Happen!!!,You Are Very
Professional Team,Making Great Efforts To Benefit People!
Really,You Are Incredible People Doing Amazing Stuffs!!!
I Hope All Friends Appreciated That,Like When I Discovered Today!
I Know,It’s A Very Big Request!!!,And I’ll Understand If It’s Not Done!
Dear Sandro: I’m Very Sorry!,I Filled Up The Blog Here!!!
So,If You Please Can Direct Me To Another Place To Continue
Our Interesting Speak And Wonderful Knowledge!!!
Because I’m Worry To Ruin The Browsers Experience!,
(Non Related Comments,Thoughts, With Main Article Idea)!
My Apologize For All Friends!!!
Respectfully,
Elina.
August 31, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Hi Elina,
As you are new to the internet, let me suggest you a few things which you may or may not know, but as a friend it is my duty to tell you. You must know, internet’s biggest flaw is also its biggest draw. Internet has not got a governing body to govern it. So anybody can virtually put anything in this medium. Tune Up Blog has a plus point over many other forums/blogs, which is that Tune Up is governed by some of the most technically genius guys and gals of Germany. So rest assured, you will really learn right stuff here. However, as you tend to go to more forums, you will definately find, that internet is also voracious in nature. In some blogs or forums, people will tend to misguide you, get personal details from you which may harm you in future and so on. Elina, when I visited your Facebook profile, I could not but feel how innocent and kind your mentality is. The thing you wrote clearly depicts it. It really makes me hurt when I see that soon you are going to enter a world which has both good friends and evil fiends. So what I would strongly recommend is do study as Much as you can on the following topics-phishing, pharming and basic online security. Also donot disclose you private information to unknown people and always judge everyone you meet. Do apply privacy settings on Facebook.
Rest assured you are in good hands here. And as you are a grown up girl now, register yourself a domain and get a custom email id. It will be highly helpful for your professional career. Anything more, contact me, am always there to help.
Be careful, its a weird internet out there !
Jeet.
P.S. We already have a benchmark planned, just need some time.
P.S. 2. You last name is also the name of India’s national dress for women. Try Googleing it
September 2, 2010 at 11:46 am
Hi Elina, I didn’t want to scare you! Please, go ahead with your experiment – you will gain much experience doing that. And let us know the results – they will be YOUR results, but we will appreciate them and try to post them or include them in an upcoming article, if you let us.
And no worries about posting comments – that’s what we’re here for! This shouldn’t be a one-way-communication platform. It’s the users that are important.
Cheers, Sandro
August 31, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Dear Friend Jeet:
What I Read Now Scare Me So Much!,Also Make Me So Sad…
Even My Only Door To The World It’s Not Safe!…
When I Start Use The Net,I Planned To Know More Friends
Around The World!,Listen To Them,Speak To Them,Feel Them!
I’m Studying One Of The Technology Field For Two Reasons:
1-Since When I A Little Girl,I loved How Things Combined And Work
Together Harmony And Magicly!
2-I Believe That Technology Is An Important Way That Let The People
Meet Other People And Make A Wonderful Friendship With Them!
(Not Like Some People Say:That It’s Separated Us!)
But Now I’m So Confused,Though So Awareness…
I’m Very Thankful,That Tune-Up Is The Only Blog That I Comment To,
Maybe Because I Felt It’s A Warm Place,That Have A Wonderful
People In It!,Also I’m Very Lucky That You My Friends Is The First
People I Contact With Them!,Dear Jeet Thank You Very Much
For Your Caring Of Me,And Thanks For Your Feelings!!!
I Hope There More People In The World Like You My Dear!
You Are A True Friend!,I Will Do Every Thing You Told Me!
Please Accept My Friendship On Facebook!,I Want You To
Advice Me In Both Technology And Life…
Your P.S1: Yay…,I Can’t Wait,Thank You Very Much!!!
Your P.S2: It’s My Family Name!,WOW!!!,It’s So Beautiful!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sari
It’s Like Came From A Magical World!,I Must Buy One!(LOL!)
I’m So Proud Of That !!!!!,Thank You My Friend!
Special Respect,
Elina.
September 1, 2010 at 6:20 am
Hello Elina,
You are most welcome. I have already accepted your friendship and even I am going to study Computer Science, so I think our field of work will be pretty same. So please please be careful. Don’t let this bad internet spoil your innocence. I thank your country’s government for what they have done. Now that you are mature, taking your own decisions is your right. Rest assured stay good, everything will be fine. However you need to stay very good. Even a wrong search in Google can make your computer virus infected. Something which experts call search engine cache poisoning. Invest in a good Internet Security Suite if you don’t already have one. I recommend Kaspersky Internet Security. It is an extremely good piece of software that doesn’t slow down your pc. I use it personally. As you will tend to grow, your Facebook account will also grow with pictures, notes etc. Make them only visible to friends and not anyone else. Stay safe, live your life. Life is never fair. Nada. Its you who can make the difference.
Best, Jeet.
P.S. Sari is an extremely complex dress to wear ! You will need to practice it
September 1, 2010 at 10:20 am
Hi Elina,
you do not have to be scared that much. Jeet gave some great advices, how to protect you personal data and yourself. And the best one will be, be always aware, that all your information provided, may be distributed by others. So if you don’t mind to get your phone number spreaded, you can publish it (Never do that as a woman
).
There may be some people that do not respect you, but I think, the lion’s share is ok or becomes friend. I use the internet for more than 10 years now, and nothing worse happen to me. I even get to know people that become friends in real life. There are pictures of me in the net, but none, that i regret.
So read about privacy security and enjoy the net.
Best,
Alexandra
September 1, 2010 at 11:42 am
Hey, Alexandra is extremely right about phone numbers ! ! !
I might have sacred you too Much ! Hey take the net casually and have fun. Thats all. Be receptive but just apply your common sense, thats the point. Have fun,
Jeet.
September 3, 2010 at 4:23 am
Dear Sandro…
No Dear!!!,It’s Not Your Fault Ever!!!
Me Who Driven By Enthusiasm,And Forget How Weak I’m…
I Felt So Bad For This”I Don’t Want To Try This Again!”
But Don’t Worry About Me!,Because I Have Also A Wonderful
Friend Here With Me!,…Memoka!,”memo” For Simplified!!!
Memoka:She’s The Cutest And Wonderful Girl Ever I Met…!
She’s From Beautiful Japan,She’s My University Apartment
Mate,She Study Arabic Language And Arabic Culture,
After My Disappointing Experiment,”Remember The Papers!”
She Started To Make Beautiful Birds Shapes With Them,
Touch Me And Annoying Me With Them To Cheer Me Up!
And She’s Success As Always!…
I Want To Say:She Is Like You My Friends…
Make Me Feel…”I’m Home…”
I’m Very Happy That’s My Simple Thoughts,In Safe
And Great Hands…Your Hands My Friends…
And I’m Very Proud If It’s Done By You Someday!
You Are So Gentle And Kind Sandro,Thank You My Friend…
Dear Jeet…
I Hope Not Make To You Any Trouble My Friend…
Please Always Keep Advice Me!,You Opened My Eyes And
My Mind…,Don’t Worry My Friend!,probably I Changed My
Style!,BUT NEVER Change My Thoughts And My Passion
To Make More Friends Around The World…,But This Time
It Well Be Wisely…,I’m Grateful To You Jeet…
Kaspersky:Yes!,I Use It!”First Time Doing Something Right!”LOL!
Dear Alex…
I’m Sorry For Late Reply,Just Needed Some Time To Review
My Actions,And Studying General Security topics…”All That You
Tell Me…,Even More…malware,spam,spyware,identity theft,
key loggers…etc…I Can Fill Entire Blog Just With The Names!
(It’s Not In My Current Books Now,So Wikipedia Is The Way!)
Now I Know How Can Avoid Them,Even Deal With Them…
Thank You Dear For Your Kind And Wise Words…
Maybe I’m Like Alice In Wonderland Here!,But Don’t Worry…
I Think I’m Ready For Mature Internet Experience Now…
Dear Friends…Please Forgive My Ignorance…
It’s Not Shame That You Don’t Know…
It’s Shame That You Still Don’t Want To Know…
p.s.,misunderstand,it’s not my government that prevent us to
use any international communications…,(it’s the other 1+*)…
got it!…,they want to “ISoLAtE us fRom” the world…,and
“isolate all CAPITAL” city’s in world to know what happens there!
though there an innocent people there want peace too…
and i feel them and respect them all…,they suffering like us…
p.s.2,i’m not worry about myself…,i’m worry about my aims…
p.s.3,dear tune-up team,i’m respectfully understand if you
deleted all my comments,even my profile…,it’s your right
to do what the best for you…,i know i crossed the lines…
i know it’s not the right place for these stuffs…
but i can’t let my dear friends misunderstand me and not
tell them the truth,and i can’t turn my back to my country…
i love and respect you forever…
p.s.4,i must wear it!,don’t disappointing me!!!(lol!)
let us leave this great blog for ideas and technology’s only…
see you my dear friends on facebook…
i love you and trust you my friends!!!
elina.
September 3, 2010 at 10:49 am
Hi Elina,
we won’t trash your comments. Maybe they are a bit off-topic, but this should be no thing in that special case. I am so curious about your way and whether you will like the Internet and all that stuff. So now that we are all connected via facebook, that will be the right place to share off-topic stuff.
Best,
Alexandra
September 4, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Dear Alex…
Thank You Very Much For Your Kind…
I Expected Flak,But I’m Getting Considerate Responses…
Thanks Dear…
Then,The Facebook For Friendship And Off-Topic Stuffs!
And The Tune-Up For Friendship And Wonderful Knowledge!!!
P.S.,Don’t Worry My Friends!!!,I’m Not A Political Person!!!
It’s Like Dear Alex Says”It’s A Special Case”Only!!!
P.S.2,If I Don’t Updated My Avatar,Memoka Will Kill Me!
Thank You Again My Wonderful Tune-UP Site…
Respectfully,
Elina.