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    I restored my 5044WLMi to factory settings and now it boots a LOT quicker.

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by basskiddanny, Mar 13, 2007.

  1. basskiddanny

    basskiddanny Notebook Evangelist

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    I had it since October and it seemed to be slow booting up and once it did get to windows the wireless networking took aaaages to appear in the tray.
    last night I restored it to factory settings then removed all the crap such as Norton and NTI CD Maker, also removed any processes and services from startup that weren't needed.

    Next I converted the two partitions to NTFS and resized the clusters to 4k from 512k.

    Now when I boot up the laptop it is very very very quick and in General the system just runs very noticeably quicker in every way. Is this due to the NTFS File system (Because I was Using FAT32 until last night). I also disabled system restore this time around. Could these two things really make it so much faster?? (I had removed all the startup and services last time, but now its NTFS and no System Restore is enabled)
     
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    Zoomastigophora Notebook Evangelist

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    Doubtful. It's mostly because you did a reformat. NTFS will improve performance, but not as much as you notice it to be.
     
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    Exactly. It's the fresh install effect that is making your computer run 'so fast.'
     
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    Bit he didn't do a fresh install,he just restored his lappy to factory settings.And if I understand him correctly his notebook was slow booting up from the beginning.

    @basskiddanny If you left Norton AV last time you did this it's got to be it,Norton will slow down your laptop very VERY much.
    Also disabling system restore will speed up your PC but I am not sure that it will speed it up SO much.
     
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    I don't think you can restore factory settings WITHOUT reformatting the whole drive in the process. At least all the OEM restores I've come in contact with do that.
     
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    Yes every factory install I have done on any system always formats the drive first, but it is obvious why it must do this.

    Also it was slow booting up in the first place yes. Also I always remove Norton it is one of the biggest resource hogs i've known lol. Just set up the laptop running my 17" TFT monitor in addition to my laptops screen and it's pretty good so far. Also gives me a chance to try out websites on both a widescreen and regular screen.
     
    basskiddanny, Mar 13, 2007
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