XPS M1330 questions (problem solving) need helps!

I'm a new user of XPS M1330 and window vista (Home so i have no idea how to solve the problem i have.

here is the question

I opened control panel and accessed to performance information and tools to check my laptop's performance.

Then i got into advanced tools and accessed to 'view performance details in event logs'

It showed me the heaps of errors and warning signs in 'Diagnostics-performance - operational' section.

it seems there are the problems with 'shutdown performance monitoring and boot performance monitoring'

I tried to find to solve this problem but have no idea where i can solve this.

any help would be appreciated

 

I'm assuming you don't have much installed since it's a fairly new system.

I would sugguest fresh installation of vista.

 

like you said i didn't install much on my laptop but why is it matter?

are you suggesting that i should reinstall the vista? i'm using home premium version though

 

Yes fresh install does help, and it doesn't matter what version of you have.

Fresh installation always helps since you are making sure of proper OS installation.

I personally don't count on drive imaging by manufacturers, and always do a fresh installation myself when I buy a new PC.

I've also seen people who were getting numerous OS errors whose system got more stable after the reinstallation of OS.

Make sure you read on how to do fresh installation properly from searching here - Specially if you want the stuff like Media Direct to work.

I personally always ditch Media Direct, and make about 3 partitionson a hard drive.

For example, I have 20G for Vista, 20G for downloads/back up, and 7XG for programs. Helps since if things do go wrong on a OS, all I have to do is restore my back ups, or just reinstalltion of OS, and programs. I had to ditch Media direct though - I couldn't figure out how to make it work on 3+ partitions, and really never used the Media Direct to begin with.

 

With that ignor it that perfomance & logs thing is a nightmare. Basically it times every operation during startup & shutdown & if it thinks something might be up it reports it. But from my experiance its the thing casuing teh problems anyways by timing everything & slowing it all down. A clean install will help but as soon as you do a windows update or install a program it will be unhappy again becasue its taking 10ms longer to boot after that update.

I ended up disabling it. And now my system boots and works faster.

 

do you mean you disabled the windows update?

 

I know exactly what you are speaking of. For now, simply delete all those error notificatiuons if the system seems to be working ok.

You get notifications for everything including if you shut down and restart improperly.

So...if your system seems to be running ok, delete them all and then monitor them. See if any are recurring.

If not...your good to go.

As for the fresh install, yes most advise of this because bloatware causes alot of the probs. I have a thread below that assists with that as well...as does the tweaking/cleaning article.

 

As on my first machine, my Dell factory image has a 30 second boot-up time BEFORE tweaking. On a fresh install, however, even AFTER tweaking, it took 40 seconds.

Plus, if you keep the factory image, you get the system restore functionality which lets you restore your laptop to its factory setting, which, in a pinch, if you have no CDs on you, is a very nice safety net.

Food for thought.

 

I deleted the restore image, and created my own via Vista Ultimate's back up image function. (You can't save image on network though)

Acronis backup image software which is about 2-30 bucks on Ebay, is also very nice to have in long run. (You can backup your image in your network storage if you choose to w/ this)