UAC is slower on a new laptop

I ordered a dv5t with a T9400 processor before, and my UAC was quick, barely took a second to get it to pop up, now, i replaced it with a dv5t with a P8600 and my UAC takes a few seconds, noticeably slower than my older one. Do the processors really affect it this much? If not, anybody know why my UAC is being so slow on my current one?

 

What about hard drive speeds? are they the same?

 

Well remove all bloatware and stuff like that. If you just got your pc, you need to clean it up and then UAC should respond quicker.

 

I've noticed it's sometimes slow the first time after bootup... or if there hasn't been a UAC prompt in a long time.

 

Not sure how to test that, but that reminds me, i think i might have canceled the indexing on the old one, and i haven't yet on my new one. I THINK i might have, not sure.

Well, i didn't remove as thoroughly as my old one, but i did remove most of the junk, so are you sure?

Well actually, it's actually fast now, but i'm wondering why it was slow at times. On my old one, i never noticed it was that slow... maybe then again i never had anything to compare it to.

 

Mine does the same thing - sometimes UAC is quicker then other times.

Why is this such a big deal?

Response time will vary, always, for everything, depending on what else the computer is doing at the time, if its been in use for a long time, if its just been booted up after ages of not being used, etc. etc.

 

I have found that with my m17x and a feresh install of Vista, I manually told indexing to rebuild after installing all of my stuff. Then when it was completed I disabled indexing, ran JkDefrag and the space it was using was shrunk lol

My Pc now loads faster and UAC only pops up when needed.

Another thing to consider is that UAC seems to "learn" so that after a few time of the same questions it seems to respond wuicker and give defferent prompts e.g.

1st time = are you sure... are you sure...

after while if this ( inkow it's annoying (",) you only get Are you sure? then it lets you work lol

OB

 

Some graphics drivers (notably with Geforce 6100s & 6150s I've come across) have a bug that causes the black screen before the UAC prompt to stay on 3-4 seconds. Earlier versions of the Nvidia driver seem to not do this. You say you have a new laptop but could it be a similar bug, i.e. graphics driver related?

 

You would be better off telling indexing to ONLY index the My Documents folder and maybe the Program files folder (if, like some folks, you use the Start > Search to launch some applications). By default indexing seems to cover a lot of places where it is of very little value. I am not sure I understand why you would have it index things and then turn it off. It will never index new or changed documents that way.

Gary

 

This was a discussion about UAC... Why are you turning it into a discussion about search indexing and disk space? I seriously doubt search indexing is going to affect UAC prompt speed in any perceptible way.

UAC doesn't actually "learn" anything at all... what happens is your behavior changes. At first you're installing a lot of stuff and changing a lot of config settings that require UAC. Then you finish setting things up the way you like them and get to actually just using your programs... that doesn't need UAC.

But the effect is still a lot like what you describe... UAC prompts come up a lot more when you're setting up your computer and installing new programs... not so much later on.