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Hello all!

My friend has got notebook Compaq 6720s.

system - Vista Home Basic
graphics card - Mobile Intel (R) 965 Express Chipset Family

Unfortunately his computer works very slowly. While checking the efficiency
of working computer on Vista Windows the result is not so good:

Graphics - pulpit efficency for Interface Windows Aero is 2,0
Graphics for games - Efficiency 3d businness graphics and grames is 2,8

Can you tell me if there is some possibility to improve the efficiency for
this equipment without chaning graphics card?

Thank you in advance for help
heyoo

"MZ" <> wrote in message
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> Hello all!
>
> My friend has got notebook Compaq 6720s.
>
> system - Vista Home Basic
> graphics card - Mobile Intel (R) 965 Express Chipset Family
>
> Unfortunately his computer works very slowly. While checking the
> efficiency
> of working computer on Vista Windows the result is not so good:
>
> Graphics - pulpit efficency for Interface Windows Aero is 2,0
> Graphics for games - Efficiency 3d businness graphics and grames is 2,8
>
> Can you tell me if there is some possibility to improve the efficiency for
> this equipment without chaning graphics card?
>
> Thank you in advance for help
> heyoo
>
>
>
Most laptops do not have a replaceable video card. Why focus on the video
as the issue? What is is that's slow? Is he doing high end graphics and
gaming? How much RAM does the laptop have? If not at least 2GB, upgrading
the RAM would be the first and most valuable step to improve performance.

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> "MZ" <> wrote in message
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>> Hello all!
>>
>> My friend has got notebook Compaq 6720s.
>>
>> system - Vista Home Basic
>> graphics card - Mobile Intel (R) 965 Express Chipset Family
>>
>> Unfortunately his computer works very slowly. While checking the
>> efficiency
>> of working computer on Vista Windows the result is not so good:
>>
>> Graphics - pulpit efficency for Interface Windows Aero is 2,0
>> Graphics for games - Efficiency 3d businness graphics and grames is 2,8
>>
>> Can you tell me if there is some possibility to improve the efficiency
>> for
>> this equipment without chaning graphics card?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for help
>> heyoo
>>
>>
>>
> Most laptops do not have a replaceable video card. Why focus on the
> video as the issue? What is is that's slow? Is he doing high end
> graphics and gaming? How much RAM does the laptop have? If not at least
> 2GB, upgrading the RAM would be the first and most valuable step to
> improve performance.

This laptop has got 2 GB RAM. This notebook is not used for gaming.
The parameters which I have mentioned before are listed on Windows Vista
option:
My computer->Properties->Efficiency

Can you help me?
heyoo

"MZ" <> wrote in message
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> Uzytkownik "GTS" <> napisal w wiadomosci
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>> "MZ" <> wrote in message
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>>> Hello all!
>>>
>>> My friend has got notebook Compaq 6720s.
>>>
>>> system - Vista Home Basic
>>> graphics card - Mobile Intel (R) 965 Express Chipset Family
>>>
>>> Unfortunately his computer works very slowly. While checking the
>>> efficiency
>>> of working computer on Vista Windows the result is not so good:
>>>
>>> Graphics - pulpit efficency for Interface Windows Aero is 2,0
>>> Graphics for games - Efficiency 3d businness graphics and grames is 2,8
>>>
>>> Can you tell me if there is some possibility to improve the efficiency
>>> for
>>> this equipment without chaning graphics card?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance for help
>>> heyoo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Most laptops do not have a replaceable video card. Why focus on the
>> video as the issue? What is is that's slow? Is he doing high end
>> graphics and gaming? How much RAM does the laptop have? If not at least
>> 2GB, upgrading the RAM would be the first and most valuable step to
>> improve performance.
>
> This laptop has got 2 GB RAM. This notebook is not used for gaming.
> The parameters which I have mentioned before are listed on Windows Vista
> option:
> My computer->Properties->Efficiency
>
> Can you help me?
> heyoo
What is it that is slow? Boot up? Internet access? Is the machine well
maintained and free of malware? Loading a lot of processes on startup? Has
latest device drivers? Adequate disk space? There are a lot of possible
reasons that a computer may seem slow.

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> "MZ" <> wrote in message
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>> Uzytkownik "GTS" <> napisal w wiadomosci
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>>> "MZ" <> wrote in message
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>>>> Hello all!
>>>>
>>>> My friend has got notebook Compaq 6720s.
>>>>
>>>> system - Vista Home Basic
>>>> graphics card - Mobile Intel (R) 965 Express Chipset Family
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately his computer works very slowly. While checking the
>>>> efficiency
>>>> of working computer on Vista Windows the result is not so good:
>>>>
>>>> Graphics - pulpit efficency for Interface Windows Aero is 2,0
>>>> Graphics for games - Efficiency 3d businness graphics and grames is 2,8
>>>>
>>>> Can you tell me if there is some possibility to improve the efficiency
>>>> for
>>>> this equipment without chaning graphics card?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance for help
>>>> heyoo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Most laptops do not have a replaceable video card. Why focus on the
>>> video as the issue? What is is that's slow? Is he doing high end
>>> graphics and gaming? How much RAM does the laptop have? If not at
>>> least 2GB, upgrading the RAM would be the first and most valuable step
>>> to improve performance.
>>
>> This laptop has got 2 GB RAM. This notebook is not used for gaming.
>> The parameters which I have mentioned before are listed on Windows Vista
>> option:
>> My computer->Properties->Efficiency
>>
>> Can you help me?
>> heyoo
> What is it that is slow? Boot up? Internet access? Is the machine well
> maintained and free of malware? Loading a lot of processes on startup?
> Has latest device drivers? Adequate disk space? There are a lot of
> possible reasons that a computer may seem slow.
>
>

What is slow? Here is the answer:
- loading windows system
- internet is also slow, but the reason for that is not so good network
capacity
- window opening is slow, working on the computer is not so fast

My friend has latest device drivers, and 100 GB free space on C:\ drive
where the window is being installed. There are a few processes loading on
startup, and it is not few. My friend uses Kaspersky antivirus and he told
me that he has no malwares.

He compares his own computer with computer he used to have at work and his
own computer works better and faster but he had Windows XP installed on the
computer at work and computer was different one that the one he has now at
home.

Any ideas?
Thanks for help...

MZ wrote:
> Uzytkownik "GTS" <> napisal w wiadomosci
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>> What is it that is slow? Boot up? Internet access? Is the machine well
>> maintained and free of malware? Loading a lot of processes on startup?
>> Has latest device drivers? Adequate disk space? There are a lot of
>> possible reasons that a computer may seem slow.
>>
>>
>
> What is slow? Here is the answer:
> - loading windows system
> - internet is also slow, but the reason for that is not so good network
> capacity
> - window opening is slow, working on the computer is not so fast
>
> My friend has latest device drivers, and 100 GB free space on C:\ drive
> where the window is being installed. There are a few processes loading on
> startup, and it is not few. My friend uses Kaspersky antivirus and he told
> me that he has no malwares.
>
> He compares his own computer with computer he used to have at work and his
> own computer works better and faster but he had Windows XP installed on the
> computer at work and computer was different one that the one he has now at
> home.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks for help...
>

Run HDTune 2.55 from hdtune.com . It has a benchmark test for hard drive
performance. The program claims to run under Vista.

http://www.hdtune.com/download.html

This shows a typical HDTune result. The hard drive bandwidth varies between
60MB/sec and 30MB/sec, from the start to the end of the disk surface.

http://www.jrin.net/blog/wp-content/...evt-22zct0.png

If you find your "blue line" is a flat horizontal line instead of a curve,
that implies a limitation that can be fixed. For example, an IDE interface
in PIO mode instead of DMA mode, limits performance to about 4MB/sec, and
is a major reason for slow system operation.

A USB flash memory, has a flat line for the performance curve, because it
is not based on rotating media with variable sector count per track. A
hard drive should have a curved performance graph, because the curve
is due to limitations where the head meets the platter.

Paul

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>> "MZ" <> wrote in message
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>>>> "MZ" <> wrote in message
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>>>>> Hello all!
>>>>>
>>>>> My friend has got notebook Compaq 6720s.
>>>>>
>>>>> system - Vista Home Basic
>>>>> graphics card - Mobile Intel (R) 965 Express Chipset Family
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately his computer works very slowly. While checking the
>>>>> efficiency
>>>>> of working computer on Vista Windows the result is not so good:
>>>>>
>>>>> Graphics - pulpit efficency for Interface Windows Aero is 2,0
>>>>> Graphics for games - Efficiency 3d businness graphics and grames is
>>>>> 2,8
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you tell me if there is some possibility to improve the efficiency
>>>>> for
>>>>> this equipment without chaning graphics card?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you in advance for help
>>>>> heyoo
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Most laptops do not have a replaceable video card. Why focus on the
>>>> video as the issue? What is is that's slow? Is he doing high end
>>>> graphics and gaming? How much RAM does the laptop have? If not at
>>>> least 2GB, upgrading the RAM would be the first and most valuable step
>>>> to improve performance.
>>>
>>> This laptop has got 2 GB RAM. This notebook is not used for gaming.
>>> The parameters which I have mentioned before are listed on Windows Vista
>>> option:
>>> My computer->Properties->Efficiency
>>>
>>> Can you help me?
>>> heyoo
>> What is it that is slow? Boot up? Internet access? Is the machine well
>> maintained and free of malware? Loading a lot of processes on startup?
>> Has latest device drivers? Adequate disk space? There are a lot of
>> possible reasons that a computer may seem slow.
>>
>>
>
> What is slow? Here is the answer:
> - loading windows system
> - internet is also slow, but the reason for that is not so good network
> capacity
> - window opening is slow, working on the computer is not so fast
>
> My friend has latest device drivers, and 100 GB free space on C:\ drive
> where the window is being installed. There are a few processes loading on
> startup, and it is not few. My friend uses Kaspersky antivirus and he told
> me that he has no malwares.
>
> He compares his own computer with computer he used to have at work and his
> own computer works better and faster but he had Windows XP installed on
> the computer at work and computer was different one that the one he has
> now at home.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks for help...
>

Well, that's not a high end computer and per one review "It's targeted at
the business market as a budget notebook" It's hard to know without
seeing it whether it's "slow" performance is what might be expected from
that hardware or should be better. The work computer could have a higher
end processor and other differences as well as XP, so that doesn't tell us
much.

The 6720s can support up to 4GB RAM and upgrading it might help. (If it's
32 bit Vista it will only see about 3.25 of the 4). Vista is significantly
slower than XP especially on lower end hardware. HP does list XP drivers
for that machine so replacing the Vista with XP is a possibility and would
certainly be faster. Alternatively (and simpler) when Windows 7 is released
he might consider upgrading. There would be some, though probably not a
dramatic, performance improvement.