Just bought a x200

[david565]

Hi,

Just got my x200 today, overall very happy. annoyed at the seller that its a German manual and charger, but the laptops laid out to a British standard and am happy with it.

Upon looking at the bios I notice a lot of new Intel features 'virtulization' etc etc.. most of them seem disabled by default, is there a definition of what all those things do?

also what out of my 90 processes running isn't needed!

and is there anything else i should look out for to speed it up ?

it's a 2.4 2gb ram model.. and is already very nippy, but i can't stand the thinking light flashing for hours on end.

[icantux]

Nice machine. Congrats!

also what out of my 90 processes running isn't needed!

Could you do a screen capture and post the image here - would be easier to consult based on extra info given.

and is there anything else i should look out for to speed it up ?

For system tweaks (you running Windows 7 ? ), you could always take a look at this site: ---> http://www.blackviper.com/Windows_7/servicecfg.htm
Also do a search here in the forums and you'll get plenty of results regarding this question.

it's a 2.4 2gb ram model.. and is already very nippy, but i can't stand the thinking light flashing for hours on end.

If you mean the hard drive light flickering, then it's probably attributed to Windows Indexing service and/or Prefetch. You can disable both as they're not really super necessary... To disable either or both take a look at the link I posted above.

Enjoy your x200!

[Eudoxus]

Or be a bit more patient. As indexing service will index all the data your hdd will get more peaceful.

[a113135]

Does anybody knows what is the different between the processor that has a "red sticker" and one with "white-yellow sticker" both says P8600 v-pro technology?

Matt

[a113135]

Oops, forgot. My congrats for the new purchase, enjoy your new laptop.
I also face same problem as you, i encounter slowness at started to the extend that I hv to stop the Roxio disk watcher to make it faster. There is this other message regarding ntpclient clock sync issue, i have change a couple of registry settings but it doesn't help either. BTW, jiust received my x200 2 weeks ago.

Matt