Simple, switch your desktop image to a colour instead of a real pic...I was watching Call for help and he said it to somebody else, I tried it, and wow...Firefox opens in no time as to where just the frame would open for about 30 seconds, then the whole window would appear...

And Im using a Thinkpad 600E, so its a old laptop that weighs about 15lbs...Pentium 2, 4 GB harddrive ( )...64mb of ram...so its not a fast computer at all...but this sure as hell helped...

Ps, if this is old news or a repost or whatever, here is my tomato to the face -

 

Windows themes, wallpaper and custom sounds will slow you down......

 

I just switched to the old style windows instead of the XP theme, that also helped...Didnt even think if it...

 

yeap it works, thanks. Also by changing your wallpaper to pure black, your laptop consumes less power

 

Heh, I shut off half the services on my g/f's laptop, the thing runs like a new computer now.

Micro$oft

 

Cant wait to make the switch to Mac...

 

I was really hoping to have a tread that didn't compare OS'es.

 

I know, the truth hurts...

 

My Dell runs much faster than Michele's Powerbook

 

I sweep through the applications running list and clean it up every 2 weeks or so...Seems to help a lot too

 

Powerbook=speedy little devil. Mac rules!

 

Nice tip

 

 

Have you heard of the New G5 that's running Dual Dual Core CPU's!

Quad 2.5Ghz G5

 

 

I'm waiting for the Yonah processors from Intel to be featured in the Mac Mini

Dual OS (OSX and Vista)

 

Great! Double the problems!

 

I changed the background of my laptop to black and it actually does run faster... I'm surprised!! Thanks for the info

 

Werd I am planning on turning off as many services as possible on my carputer so it will start when I start the car sub 5 seconds out of hibernate

 

Actually my Beta of Vista is MORE stable than my patched XP SP2. AND it runs games and Adobe CS2 faster

 

Wow welcome to 1995 guys....time for a new computer. My desktop is so fast that I can stack all sorts of ridiculous things together and it hardly makes a difference in how it runs.

 

How much did you pay for that?

This laptop was free....Company I worked for was moving offices and were getting rid of everything, for free.....whatever didnt get taken went to charity, I got this laptop, put XP on it, and its never seen better days...I also have a perfectly good desktop PC, that runs games and everything lighting fast, but right now Im in my living room watching t.v, sitting on the couch and posting on AZ...For the few times I use this laptop, the tips posted in this thread made a great difference...

 

 

Do you mean you simply do an "End Process" on some of the applications running every 2 weeks or so?

If so, that doesn't do crap. You gotta go into your services panel and disable items there.

 

I wasn't tryin to make a stab that both suck.

I just can't turn down the chance to make a crack at Microcrap.

 

The 600E was such a nice laptop. I had one and loved it.

 

off topic but... my firefox consistently uses 450mb+ ram with more than one tab open.

anyone know what could cause this?

 

explanation por favor.

small words please, i'm computer dumb.

thanks

 

That was two seperate comments. I was just poking fun at you guys because we were doing this back when Windows 3.1 was the shit...

I was just mentioning that I love my new computer because I don't have to fool with it.

 

Sounds like something is screwed up...is it like that as soon as you open Firefox or after a while?

My POS wireless card in my desktop now starts out about 32, and works its way up to 240-350 over a few days, slowing things down. I can't decide if I want a cheapie Linksys or if I'm gonna spring for a Cisco card for the replacement so I just restart the thing every once in a while. Me=ultimate in lazy.

 

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services

Go through that list and see if there's anything you don't need and disable it.

be careful though, don't disable something without figuring out what it does first.

Otherwise you'll be doing this

 

get a netgear wirless card. They are pretty damn reliable.

 

gets worse over time. its at 490 now

 

I believe if you are using an older release candidate of Firefox you will have this problem (not in all cases).

I think they fixed this issue in the new release candidate. Perhaps you simply need a clean install of Firefox?

 

I have 1.5, installed it last week....

 

did you perform a clean install?

 

what do you mean a clean install? I just upgraded my older version.

I still haven't figured out how FF does it but it keeps my preferences and bookmarks and whatever even after I uninstall and delete EVERYTHING. there are a million hits on google about it and I've tried all of it, still can't find where it stores this crap.

anyway didn't mean to hijack thread, I'll just reinstall and see if that fixes it.

 

thanks, i'm sure i'll be back later asking how to restore some file i accidentally erased.

 

clean install = uninstall program and then do a complete install.

I think it stores your bookmarks and stuff in your Documents & Settings folder in your profile for FireFox. Dont' ask me exactly where in Documents & settings but I'm pretty certain it's in there.

 

Disabling items in the services panel doesn't actually erase files from your computer. All it does is tell windows which services to turn on when it boots up.

But if you see your computer do something it shouldn't or complain about something, re-enable what you disabled.

it's safer to disable things in small groups so you can track what the problem may be if you have any.

Unless you've installed and uninstalled a lot of crap on your computer, usually there's no reason to even bother going into the service panel and adjusting things. But it's good to check it once in a while.