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    Empowering Tools and long boot time

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by [BR]Daredevil, Nov 29, 2006.

  1. [BR]Daredevil

    [BR]Daredevil Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi!

    Does Empowering Tools take too long to load on startup or it`s just mine 5102???

    I`m thinking to remove it (or take it out from startup) and install AMD`s tools... what you guys think about AMD`s solutions? Is it faster? Or at least, better?

    Thanks!
     
    [BR]Daredevil, Nov 29, 2006
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    AlexMagik Notebook Consultant

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    i'm using only the ePower... and it does take quite a long time...
    the problem i think that it is a .NET application, so at first start (every time you boot), need to start all the .NET subsystem.. that's why it is slow..
     
    AlexMagik, Nov 29, 2006
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    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    It's usually that last thing to load on boot up. But it doesn't take so long that it becomes a problem.
     
    LIVEFRMNYC, Dec 1, 2006
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    Hi! Thanks for all of your answers! I`ve been busy working and studying for my final exams at college.

    Really... boot doesn`t take that long, but since this is a battery powered device with limited working time, I think the loading time is quite a lot!

    I tryed AMD tools and I didn`t liked them! They may work better and faster than Acer`s tools (in fact, not that faster as I noticed)... but AMD software designs are lame! Ugly programs and worse interface! I was remembering my time at Windows 3.11 and cheap shareware...

    When I got this laptop, I did a brand new installation with the rescue DVD... and the laptop was veeeeery fast on boot (really, I was amazed! Boot was taking little more than half the time it takes now). I merged the 2 partitions with Partition Magic and then, coverted to NTFS... but I had to restart the laptop and lost all data on the HDD. I know I could recover it, but I thought it would be better to proceed with another full installation. I did everything the way I did before, but guess what! The laptop wasn`t booting up as fast as it did! I converted the HDD to NTFS and merged the partitions and the speed was tha almost the same. Last time, I converted the main partition to Dinamic Disc, but I guess it won`t improve speed.
    I don`t know if I`ll convert it to Dinamic Disc again, since I won`t use extended HDDs and I`m thinking about creat a new partition and install Windows Vista as a second boot. I don`t know...

    Anyway, thanks for your help!

    See you guys!
     
    [BR]Daredevil, Dec 6, 2006
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