T60p.. performence issues / battery life

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hdave · #1 Post by **hdave** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:47 pm

Hello.

Just a question.

What are some common things I can do to increase performence of my laptop, i noticed that its starts up so slow, much slower than my desktop (athlon xp 1.8ghz, 1gb ram)

Also, is it possible to turn off any devices that i do not use, for example the wired lan, 56k modem, etc...

or any general tweaks / goodies to make me even happier with it?

Dark Energy · #2 Post by **Dark Energy** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:19 pm

If you dont use it, then turning of the client security software and the fingerprint reader will speed things up at startup.

If you use the scrollpoint, then turning off the touchpad gets you (very slightly) longer battery life.

If you really want to get serious then I suppose you could go into the BIOS and start disabling the things you dont use, but I personally would not recommend this.

marlinspike · #3 Post by **marlinspike** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:16 pm

To make it boot faster you need to kinda know what you are doing and go into start>run msconfig...if you don't know what you're doing in there, don't mess with it because you could bugger something up.

A 7200rpm hard drive would help.

hdave · #4 Post by **hdave** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:54 pm

ive checked the msconfig and removed any junk.

i find it very odd that my laptop is so much slower than my desktop, especially since this desktop hasnt been formatted in years

marlinspike · #5 Post by **marlinspike** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:09 pm

The only factor at work here is the Hard Drive and software that's loading. Also, did you do a defrag? After the initial setup of putting your own software on and all that, a computer needs to be defragmented.

#6 Post by **tomh009** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:35 pm

hdave wrote:ive checked the msconfig and removed any junk.

i find it very odd that my laptop is so much slower than my desktop, especially since this desktop hasnt been formatted in years

How slow is slow? How long from power-on to login, and login to desktop ready?

pianowizard · #7 Post by **pianowizard** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:52 pm

tomh009 wrote:How slow is slow?

Good point, "slow" is subjective. For comparison, it takes my T60 (1.66GHz Core Duo, 1.5GB PC2-5300 RAM, 5400rpm 80GB HDD) 39 seconds from power-on to the login screen.

hdave · #8 Post by **hdave** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:11 am

power on to login:
66 seconds

login to time programs load:
18 seconds

It has been formatted and fresh copy of windows xp pro about a week ago
installed office matlab, photoshop, and a few other apps and then i did a defrag about 3 days ago.

Zeus · #9 Post by **Zeus** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:56 am

you can turn off the modem in Control Panel > ThinkPad Configuration

hdave · #10 Post by **hdave** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:14 am

what times do you guys get for power on to login, and login to desktop ready??

T60p.. performence issues / battery life

T60p.. performence issues / battery life

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