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I have a new laptop (HP dv9000 with Intel Centrino Duo x64 2.0 with 2 GB
RAM, 512MB nVidia Video, 200 GB drive). I'm running Vista Ultimate. This was
suppose to be my 'dream machine'. I really looked forward to the day when I
finally got to bring it home.

I have MS Office 2007 and Zune software installed, but that's basically it.
I used offline files in the past (in the first few weeks I had the laptop)
to sync a network drive which contained all my media files. After starting
my laptop I would basically have to walk away for an hour while it ran at
100%. Using ProcMon I discovered it was the offline files that caused my CPU
to run so hard and have since disabled the service. However, I still have to
wait anywhere between 10 - 15 minutes before my laptop really becomes usable
after booting up. I even have to wait sometimes 5 minutes or more when
shutting down for the process to complete.

What's with all the wait time? I can't figure out all these services that
run that are suppose to make my computing experience better. I have several
svchost processes that run. One of these takes up 140 MB of memory alone.
When it comes to performance, why can't I have one control panel that allows
me to choose which services I want to run that may effect the performance of
my machine? I feel like I need to take a 10-week Microsoft course to learn
what is necessary to configure my laptop.

Mike B.

Juergen, your clock is one month behind.
noticed because have a rule to mark anything over 4 days old as read.







"Juergen Kluth" <> wrote in message news:%...
Hi,
may be indexing service -> computermanagement->services-><indexing
service ->try to deaktivate it
if it helps ?!
jk

In the control panel there is "Performance Tools and Information". However,
I haven't found anything too helpful yet. It shows me the startup
applications, which is nice. Also, it has indexing options. It says I
currently have 823 items indexed....all from Outlook. That doesn't seem like
many items to me. At least I'm able to rule out Indexing.

I don't see anything else. There are three svchost instances set to startup.
They list dll files with no description:
NvCpl.dll, NvStartup
nvsvc64.dll, nvsvcStart
NvMcTray.dll, nvTaskbarInit

The list of applications is incomplete. There are many other apps that run
at startup. Some I'm familiar with and many I am not.



"Juergen Kluth" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Hi,
> may be indexing service -> computermanagement->services-><indexing
> service ->try to deaktivate it
> if it helps ?!
> jk
>

Your first step should be to ask HP.

"Mike Benton" <> wrote in message
news:E7C5B84E-7964-4466-906B-...
> In the control panel there is "Performance Tools and Information".
> However, I haven't found anything too helpful yet. It shows me the startup
> applications, which is nice. Also, it has indexing options. It says I
> currently have 823 items indexed....all from Outlook. That doesn't seem
> like many items to me. At least I'm able to rule out Indexing.
>
> I don't see anything else. There are three svchost instances set to
> startup. They list dll files with no description:
> NvCpl.dll, NvStartup
> nvsvc64.dll, nvsvcStart
> NvMcTray.dll, nvTaskbarInit
>
> The list of applications is incomplete. There are many other apps that run
> at startup. Some I'm familiar with and many I am not.
>
>
>
> "Juergen Kluth" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Hi,
>> may be indexing service -> computermanagement->services-><indexing
>> service ->try to deaktivate it
>> if it helps ?!
>> jk
>>
>

Thank you for pointing out that calling support is an option. Many times
when presented with an issue I will use more than one resource to resolve
it. I have opened a ticket with HP. Essentially I was told there is nothing
HP can do. What did I really expect them to do?

Before, I complained about not being able to see the many processes that
run, and their disk activity. Someone responded with the ProcMan
application. Already I received more assistance on these groups. It's a
great interactive knowledge base. I would encourage people to use it rather
than point them in other directions.




"Colin Barnhorst" <> wrote in message
news:001D527A-7098-410B-8DF9-...
> Your first step should be to ask HP.
>
> "Mike Benton" <> wrote in message
> news:E7C5B84E-7964-4466-906B-...
>> In the control panel there is "Performance Tools and Information".
>> However, I haven't found anything too helpful yet. It shows me the
>> startup applications, which is nice. Also, it has indexing options. It
>> says I currently have 823 items indexed....all from Outlook. That doesn't
>> seem like many items to me. At least I'm able to rule out Indexing.
>>
>> I don't see anything else. There are three svchost instances set to
>> startup. They list dll files with no description:
>> NvCpl.dll, NvStartup
>> nvsvc64.dll, nvsvcStart
>> NvMcTray.dll, nvTaskbarInit
>>
>> The list of applications is incomplete. There are many other apps that
>> run at startup. Some I'm familiar with and many I am not.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Juergen Kluth" <> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>>> Hi,
>>> may be indexing service -> computermanagement->services-><indexing
>>> service ->try to deaktivate it
>>> if it helps ?!
>>> jk
>>>
>>
>

Those starting with NV are nVidia and are related to either or both of the
video card or chipset on the MOBO


"Mike Benton" <> wrote in message
news:E7C5B84E-7964-4466-906B-...
> In the control panel there is "Performance Tools and Information".
> However, I haven't found anything too helpful yet. It shows me the startup
> applications, which is nice. Also, it has indexing options. It says I
> currently have 823 items indexed....all from Outlook. That doesn't seem
> like many items to me. At least I'm able to rule out Indexing.
>
> I don't see anything else. There are three svchost instances set to
> startup. They list dll files with no description:
> NvCpl.dll, NvStartup
> nvsvc64.dll, nvsvcStart
> NvMcTray.dll, nvTaskbarInit
>
> The list of applications is incomplete. There are many other apps that run
> at startup. Some I'm familiar with and many I am not.
>
>
>
> "Juergen Kluth" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Hi,
>> may be indexing service -> computermanagement->services-><indexing
>> service ->try to deaktivate it
>> if it helps ?!
>> jk
>>
>

If your Video Card is a GO card, make sure you have the proper GO driver -
the default nVidia drivers does not support GO cards!


Tony. . .


"Mike Benton" <> wrote in message
news:E7C5B84E-7964-4466-906B-...
> In the control panel there is "Performance Tools and Information".
However,
> I haven't found anything too helpful yet. It shows me the startup
> applications, which is nice. Also, it has indexing options. It says I
> currently have 823 items indexed....all from Outlook. That doesn't seem
like
> many items to me. At least I'm able to rule out Indexing.
>
> I don't see anything else. There are three svchost instances set to
startup.
> They list dll files with no description:
> NvCpl.dll, NvStartup
> nvsvc64.dll, nvsvcStart
> NvMcTray.dll, nvTaskbarInit
>
> The list of applications is incomplete. There are many other apps that run
> at startup. Some I'm familiar with and many I am not.
>
>
>
> "Juergen Kluth" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
> > Hi,
> > may be indexing service -> computermanagement->services-><indexing
> > service ->try to deaktivate it
> > if it helps ?!
> > jk
> >
>

My video drivers work fine, thanks. I'm not having driver issues. I'm only
having performance issues.


"Tony Sperling" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> If your Video Card is a GO card, make sure you have the proper GO driver -
> the default nVidia drivers does not support GO cards!
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
> "Mike Benton" <> wrote in message
> news:E7C5B84E-7964-4466-906B-...
>> In the control panel there is "Performance Tools and Information".
> However,
>> I haven't found anything too helpful yet. It shows me the startup
>> applications, which is nice. Also, it has indexing options. It says I
>> currently have 823 items indexed....all from Outlook. That doesn't seem
> like
>> many items to me. At least I'm able to rule out Indexing.
>>
>> I don't see anything else. There are three svchost instances set to
> startup.
>> They list dll files with no description:
>> NvCpl.dll, NvStartup
>> nvsvc64.dll, nvsvcStart
>> NvMcTray.dll, nvTaskbarInit
>>
>> The list of applications is incomplete. There are many other apps that
>> run
>> at startup. Some I'm familiar with and many I am not.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Juergen Kluth" <> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>> > Hi,
>> > may be indexing service -> computermanagement->services-><indexing
>> > service ->try to deaktivate it
>> > if it helps ?!
>> > jk
>> >
>>
>
>