A Few Minor Questions

[SevSaint]

1. How can i safely increase my virtual mem? And would this improve my fps on game such as WoW or Eve Online. If not, and other than buying a new ram chip how can i improve fps other than modifying the settings in the game.

2. On a cold boot i have about 10-15 svhost.exe that load up with my computer. How can i fix this if is this a problem, and or how can i find out which ones are safe to fix? End process from Task manager?

3. Why do programs try to put stuff on D drive even if i don't permit it. Even when downloading any thing it always prompts me for the option of D drive over the C drive. (D drive is my recovery drive partition) BTW i tried removing the letter and it failed because something about page filing stuff. And i don't want to expand.

4. I think i deleted my Dell Image file. And i want to recover it, because i recently found it its extremely important. How can i do that cheap and can you tell me where it would be stored at on my D drive. BTW it was about 1.2gigs and nothing has ever gone wrong with my computer since it was done about a year ago.s

5. After any restart/shut down with me screen black and before log on i have 2 options of logging on. Windows Vista and Windos. It's not a normal log on but something else entirely. WHat is this and how do i remove the 2nd unused option that i have?

6. If a tree falls on a pillow in the woods does it still make a sound?

Any answered questions, even if 1 is very helpfull.

Here are my specs
Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000
OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Basic
Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz, 2792 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 1 Logical Processor(s)
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Total Physical Memory 1,013.32 MB
Available Physical Memory 405.81 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.23 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.34 GB
Page File Space 1.28 GB

 

[dmex]

Here are my specs
Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000

Hi SevSaint,

Might be good to start off updating to Vista Service Pack 1 first because games, drivers and more performance updates are offered after for games and many other programs

Steven

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hi SevSaint,
Might be good to start off updating to Vista Service Pack 1 first because games, drivers and more performance updates are offered after for games and many other programs

Steven

Hello again, SevSaint.

I told you the same thing here!

http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/186876-cleaning-recover-d-drive.html

Keep us informed!


Later Ted

 

[Dzomlija]

1. How can i safely increase my virtual mem? And would this improve my fps on game such as WoW or Eve Online. If not, and other than buying a new ram chip how can i improve fps other than modifying the settings in the game.

Increasing virtual memory won't really give any real increases in fps. In some cases, manually setting your swap file size could even hurt performance. your best bet here would be to rather install some additional memory, is is by far faster than the swap file.

2. On a cold boot i have about 10-15 svhost.exe that load up with my computer. How can i fix this if is this a problem, and or how can i find out which ones are safe to fix? End process from Task manager?

You shouldn't terminate svhost from Task Manager unless it's absolutely necessary, and even then, there is no way of knowing which service/services you'll be killing, as SVHOSt can be in some cases running more than one service with only one instance in Task Manager.

If you want to prevent services from running, your best bet would be to use MSCONFIG (<WINDOWS_KEY>+<R>, MSCONFIG, <ENTER>), and then disable "unnecessary" services one at a time. This way, if you disable the wrong one, or you've hurt performance, you can turn them back on easily.

However, Windows Vista is much leaner with regards to services than XP was, and you shouldn't need to disable any. Many people complain about the Indexing Service killing performance. If you allow it to complete it's initial index without interruption, you'll be hard pressed to notice any performance hits because of it.

3. Why do programs try to put stuff on D drive even if i don't permit it. Even when downloading any thing it always prompts me for the option of D drive over the C drive. (D drive is my recovery drive partition) BTW i tried removing the letter and it failed because something about page filing stuff. And i don't want to expand.

This depends on how you are saving, and which program is doing the saving. Some program remember their lasted used folder, and default back to that folder when next you save a file.

If you're saving to one of your personal folders, then perhaps it's location has been change to point to D:? To check this (and to change the location), right-click on one of your personal folders on the Start Menu, select properties, then open the Location tab. If the location is pointing somewhere other than "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\FOLDERNAME", then you can either "Restore Default" or "Move..." to another location".

4. I think i deleted my Dell Image file. And i want to recover it, because i recently found it its extremely important. How can i do that cheap and can you tell me where it would be stored at on my D drive. BTW it was about 1.2gigs and nothing has ever gone wrong with my computer since it was done about a year ago.s

If you deleted that file about a year ago, then it's toast. Get ahold of Dell and see if you can get recovery DVD for your particular model.

5. After any restart/shut down with me screen black and before log on i have 2 options of logging on. Windows Vista and Windos. It's not a normal log on but something else entirely. WHat is this and how do i remove the 2nd unused option that i have?

I'm guessing that Windows Vista is the default option in this boot menu, and has around 30 seconds before it is automatically selected? You can use METHOD 2 of the utuorial "http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/82664-boot-partition-default.html?ltr=B" to remove the WinDos option - just be sure to remove the correct one. The one marked "DefaultOS" should not be deleted.

6. If a tree falls on a pillow in the woods does it still make a sound?

Isn't that "if a tree falls in the woods and no-one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?"

Any answered questions, even if 1 is very helpfull.

Here are my specs
Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000
OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Basic
Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz, 2792 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 1 Logical Processor(s)
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Total Physical Memory 1,013.32 MB
Available Physical Memory 405.81 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.23 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.34 GB
Page File Space 1.28 GB

You really should do something about your memory. Windows Vista really needs a minimum of 2GB, although more is better. This alone will works wonders for performance, and will almost moot all the above questions you've had.

Also upgrading to a dual core CPU would definitely not hurt.

 

[SevSaint]

Thanks for the response.
All questions are answered well.

1. I checked MSCONFIG out and my default drive is set to my partition drive of D. I can chose to set my default drive to C, but how will this effect my system. I'm guessing this is why most of my downloads auto go in the D drive is because it is set to default.
Or
Should i just leave the D drive set to default since it is the primary drive for restores etc?
I will not do anything unless someone can tell me what I'm doing and the effects of switching my default OS to C first.

2. How can i tell if the SP1 is installed. I am curretly reconfig my auto update manager to notify me of important updates, but the site said it could take a month for the SP1 pack to show up as an option for download.

3. When i reconfigured my Startup under MSCONFIG it switched my boot option to "Selective Startup". Which as i read is the setup i chose when disabling certain startup programs. Is this a bad way to go to prevent the Startup tray to fill up with all kinds of unwanted stuff. Right now when i startup i have to wait about 5minutes because of all the startup stuff. Like yahoo, printer, virus software. Is there another better way to disable and still have a normal boot?
Thanks in advance my specs are listed above.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

How can i tell if the SP1 is installed. I am curretly reconfig my auto update manager to notify me of important updates, but the site said it could take a month for the SP1 pack to show up as an option for download.

In the Start / Search box in the start menu type winver; that will tell you if you have SP1 installed, but this below tells us you don't; it should say build 6001!



If you have 32-bit (x86) Vista, you can get it from here ... SP1 for 32-bit Vista

Keep us informed!


Later Ted

 

[amplid]

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