Utramobile PC Tips

Optimizing Vista: Disabling Superfetch and Paging Excute

CTitanic — Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:13 am

Author: CTitanic

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:13 am

According to Microsoft:

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Windows SuperFetch
A new memory management technology in Windows Vista, Windows SuperFetch, helps keep the computer consistently responsive to your programs by making better use of the computer's RAM. Windows SuperFetch prioritizes the programs you're currently using over background tasks and adapts to the way you work by tracking the programs you use most often and preloading these into memory. With SuperFetch, background tasks still run when the computer is idle. However, when the background task is finished, SuperFetch repopulates system memory with the data you were working with before the background task ran. Now, when you return to your desk, your programs will continue to run as efficiently as they did before you left.

Optimizing Vista: Stop those unused features

CTitanic — Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:13 pm

Author: CTitanic

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:13 pm

Here is a tip that really speeded up my Q1 with Vista Business, I ran CrystalMark before and after this tip and the score went up for around 600 points. But that's not all, I feel that now applications open a lot faster.

Here is what I did:

Vista ships with other features that are listed separately in the operating system from the startup services.

You can view and disable these features following these instructions:

Clicking Start, Control Panel and Select Program Features
On the left panel, select Turn Windows Features on or off
You can safely deselect:
- Indexing Service (I had this one disabled from a previous optimization)
- Remote Differential Compression - Remote Differential Compression (RDC) allows applications to synchronize data between two computers in an efficient manner. The synchronization efficiency is made possible by using compression techniques to minimize the amount of data sent across the network. After all your UMPC is not part of a network the whole time and believe me, when it's connected to your network probably you wont notice any difference from not using this service. At least I did not notice any in my tests after applying this tip.
- Windows DFS Replication Service -According to Microsoft "The DFS Replication Service (DFSR) Management Pack for MOM monitors the DFS Replication service running on Windows Server 2003 R2 DFS Folder targets. This management pack monitors the events collected from the service that indicate the health of the service, replicated volumes, replication groups, and replicated folders. It also has consolidation rules that monitor frequent occurrences of certain conditions such as sharing violation, conflicts generated etc." Again, Your UMPC is most of the time not connected to a network so you can live without this feature.
- Windows Fax & Scan (unless you use a modem for faxing and I'm almost 100% sure that a modem is the last thing that you are going to have connected to your UMPC)
- Windows Meeting Space (unless you use the Live Meeting Service)

These are the kind of tips that most of us are waiting from Origami team but they have virtually disappeared.  Looking at these services you can see that Vista is not configured at all for being used in a UMPC and who knows better Vista than Microsoft? Origami Experience is Ok but many current owners will appreciate more a program or guide optimizing Vista for UMPCs than a new version of OX. That's mine opinion.

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CF accessories for Q1

CTitanic — Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:57 pm

Author: CTitanic

Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:57 pm

Here is another accessory that can be use in the CF slot of Samsung Q1: the Enfora GSM/GPRS Compact Flash Card.

<blockquote>Enfora's third generation IP (GSM/GPRS) modem provides mobile communication anywhere, anytime from the widest variety of devices - now with a slightly smaller external footprint.

With a Type II Compact Flash form factor, the Enfora GSM/GPRS Compact Flash Card works in virtually any CF equipped PDA. Slide it into the included PC-Card Sleeve, and use the same modem for communication from your laptop.

Based on Enfora's cutting-edge Quad Band GSM/GPRS module, the Enfora GSM/GPRS Compact Flash Card enables communication on GSM networks worldwide. With the included BVRP mobile PhoneTools and pocket PhoneTools software providing connection settings for most carriers worldwide, setup and configuration is quick and easy.

Use the Enfora GSM/GPRS Compact Flash Card to access e-mail, browse the Internet, and send and receive instant messages, or make voice calls directly from your laptop or PDA.

Compatible with Pocket PC2002, PPC2003, Windows Mobile 5.0, Windows 2000, XP.</blockquote>

Keep in mind that the speed that you will get on these one is going to around the same you had in your old 56kb modem.

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Posted By CTitanic to ULTRA MOBILE PC TIPS at 12/25/2006 08:45:00 PM