At work recently I was provided a Dell latitude d830 windows XP machine that has an Intel T7250 dual core cpu with 4 gigs of ram.
It was taking like 8 seconds to open an internet explorer window.
I messed with options and hugely (like 2 seconds now to start ie) improved the performance.
The change that sped the machine up was changing the bios setting to disable dynamic acceleration.
This has me wondering if this fix applies to all windows / linux operating environments. Are others having similar performance problems?
update of 12/07/2010. The above information is not the real problem / real solution. The real problem was that the cpu was running like around 600mhz. I downloaded and ran cpuz that gave that type of number. What I’ve determined was the issue, is that the power plug / bios or something related made the machine run slow. I believe I have a bad solder joint or something like that. The battery was not charging for months. After replugging in? or joggling? the cpuz program now shows the cpu running at 1994.5mhz. I have great performance now.
