Hardware

Ask something
Question Locked

SLOW HP Pavillion

0 helpful
4 replies

by shadlee 1 view

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.
Good morning I would just like to enquire if I have a new HP Pavillion dv9700 and the applications are opening very slow i.e. MS WORD. This application is taking like a minute to open and other office appliction. I have increased the CPU speed and have increased the virtual memory with no better result. The OS is Windows Vista, is there any other settings I could go through?

4 replies

by thumbsup2

Chances are, a new computer barely meets minimum specifications for Vista, unless you special ordered it otherwise.

How much RAM did they put in it?

Has it completed all of the patching that it goes through for the first few days?

by computercookie

read the L2 Cache on for some processors, just as XP did.

Depending on the processor, you may have 4,6 or 8 MB of L2 Cache, however I found with my system that neither XP SP2 or Vista Business failed to identify the Core Duo Processor so it defaulted to 256 KB.

The first thing I'd do is check the processor and see how much L2 Cache.

See article below;
Tech Tip: Adjust the Level 2 cache setting
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-22_11-5109814.html

Note if you have a core duo, 2 MB of L2 cache would mean a total of 4 MB of L2 cache therefore the DWORD Value Data setting should be 4096, 6 MB = 6144 and 8 MB = 8192, you may find that the value is 0 or less than it should be!

Any queries post back,

Jeff

by Former member

To switch on the "Max CUID" of the proceesor, marked "enable". On some motherboards this will be something like "Cpu internal cache" and "External cache", make sure these are marked "enable". And see if this gives you a boost.
Or you can use this:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
This might speed things up a bit.

Please post back if you have anymore problems or questions.

This discussion is closed to new replies.