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I tried running my program in safemode to kill all the background stuff and
make it run faster... it ran as slow as SLOW can be. Should have used my
p200 with win2000 Adv. Ser and safe mode, a billion times faster! What's up?

AMD Athalon 64 3800
512 Corsair Twinx 400mhz Plt
Asus 8AV Deluxe

Safe mode will always be slow. If you want to kill the background "stuff"
(whatever that really means), then go in and kill it. But running in safe
mode will definitely cause things to run slowly.

--
Charlie.

Codehardcodehardcode wrote:
> I tried running my program in safemode to kill all the background
> stuff and make it run faster... it ran as slow as SLOW can be.
> Should have used my p200 with win2000 Adv. Ser and safe mode, a
> billion times faster! What's up?
>
> AMD Athalon 64 3800
> 512 Corsair Twinx 400mhz Plt
> Asus 8AV Deluxe

You can use msconfig to leave only essential processes running after reboot.

"Charlie Russel - MVP" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Safe mode will always be slow. If you want to kill the background "stuff"
> (whatever that really means), then go in and kill it. But running in safe
> mode will definitely cause things to run slowly.
>
> --
> Charlie.
>
> Codehardcodehardcode wrote:
>> I tried running my program in safemode to kill all the background
>> stuff and make it run faster... it ran as slow as SLOW can be.
>> Should have used my p200 with win2000 Adv. Ser and safe mode, a
>> billion times faster! What's up?
>>
>> AMD Athalon 64 3800
>> 512 Corsair Twinx 400mhz Plt
>> Asus 8AV Deluxe
>
>

"Codehardcodehardcode" <>
wrote in message news:BE36D712-064E-419A-88C3-...
>I tried running my program in safemode to kill all the background stuff and
> make it run faster... it ran as slow as SLOW can be. Should have used my
> p200 with win2000 Adv. Ser and safe mode, a billion times faster! What's
> up?
>
> AMD Athalon 64 3800
> 512 Corsair Twinx 400mhz Plt
> Asus 8AV Deluxe

Safemode is NOT the way to get optimal performance for your system.

After you have confirmed that you have got a high performance system in
terms of hardware (disk layouts, raid, memory (more then 4GB if needs be)
etc ) and all drivers (no Beta drivers - they contain debug code and slow
things down)
You should then look at what services are running and disable those not
necessary for the running of your application or any other applications on
that system.
Obviously your application should be properly recompiled as a 64-bit
application to get truly great performance or at the very least be a 32-bit
application that supports the larger memory model switch to allow it access
to 4Gb of memory for itself not the usual 2Gb (or 3Gb with the old /3GB
switch)
Once you have done that the you can obviously tune various internal system
parameters dependent on what the application is and the work load profile of
that app on the system.

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"Codehardcodehardcode" <>
wrote in message news:BE36D712-064E-419A-88C3-...
>I tried running my program in safemode to kill all the background stuff and
> make it run faster... it ran as slow as SLOW can be. Should have used my
> p200 with win2000 Adv. Ser and safe mode, a billion times faster! What's
> up?
>
> AMD Athalon 64 3800
> 512 Corsair Twinx 400mhz Plt
> Asus 8AV Deluxe

yes, that is correct.

--
Charlie.

M. Murcek wrote:
> You can use msconfig to leave only essential processes running after
> reboot.
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" <> wrote in
> message news:...
>> Safe mode will always be slow. If you want to kill the background
>> "stuff" (whatever that really means), then go in and kill it. But
>> running in safe mode will definitely cause things to run slowly.
>>
>> --
>> Charlie.
>>
>> Codehardcodehardcode wrote:
>>> I tried running my program in safemode to kill all the background
>>> stuff and make it run faster... it ran as slow as SLOW can be.
>>> Should have used my p200 with win2000 Adv. Ser and safe mode, a
>>> billion times faster! What's up?
>>>
>>> AMD Athalon 64 3800
>>> 512 Corsair Twinx 400mhz Plt
>>> Asus 8AV Deluxe