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    Questions to other T400 owners

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by mansech, Sep 30, 2008.

  1. mansech

    mansech Newbie

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    So I've had my T400 for about a week now and just got some questions..

    Is you hard drive always being accessed?
    I did a fresh install and turned off indexing but my hard drive light keeps flashing when I'm not doing anything.

    What are your boot times like?
    Seems to take awhile for me but this is my first time with Vista so I'm not too sure. When Vista boots up it spends a while on the screen with the green bar (6secs?) and when I log on I get to my desktop and I see my wallpaper but I have to wait a couple seconds again then the sidebar/power manger pops out.. I don't have exact seconds but I was thinking it would be faster..

    Anyone can share their experience with the above questions?

    Thanks

    Edit: also sometimes the boot times are faster, but other times its really slow. For example once after the loading screen with the green bar the screen just went black and after what seemed like 8secs the Vista orb popped out and then went to the log in screen.
     
    mansech, Sep 30, 2008
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  2. MaX PL

    MaX PL Notebook Deity

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    boot is pretty fast for me. i'm using factory install and i have no problems with boot. around 20 to 30 seconds i'd say.
     
    MaX PL, Oct 1, 2008
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  3. BinkNR

    BinkNR Knock off all that evil

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    This is a feature of Vista—read up on SuperFetch.
     
    BinkNR, Oct 1, 2008
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  4. mikec

    mikec Notebook Evangelist

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    I disable SuperFetch and Windows Search (I use a different search product).

    That keeps hard drive access to a minimum. Helps with performance and battery life. Superfetch, in it's current incarnation, is bad news, in my opinion.
     
    mikec, Oct 1, 2008
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  5. MaX PL

    MaX PL Notebook Deity

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    where do you disable superfetch?
     
    MaX PL, Oct 1, 2008
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  6. BinkNR

    BinkNR Knock off all that evil

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    Mainly with regard to battery life, I cannot agree with this. Both technologies are designed to nearly shutdown when the battery is being used.
     
    BinkNR, Oct 1, 2008
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  7. Parijat

    Parijat Notebook Consultant

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    @ Max_PL

    You can disable superfetch by :
    right click on my computer go to manage then go to services, click on sort by name and then click on superfetch and set it from original "automatic" to "disabled"
     
    Parijat, Oct 1, 2008
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