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Solving Windows 7 Performance Issues

May 3, 2010 By Larry Brouwer Leave a Comment

This morning, I got a call from a friend of mine who was having some terrible performance issues with her new Dell Latitude E6500 laptop running Windows 7 Professional. I had some extra time, so I offered to drop by and have a look.

I did the usual things like run msconfig.exe, and disabled as many startup programs and services as I could without interfering with anything. This may have helped some, but not much. The machine would boot up fine, but then hang out for a considerable amount of time after logging in but before it would be fully loaded.

I went into Norton Security Suite, and found that she had configured her machine to run backups to a non-existent USB drive. I disabled the backup feature of the software since she really didn’t understand how it could have been activated in the first place. I also went into the Task Scheduling and disabled all of the PC Tune-up settings. I rebooted, and this time the machine completed the startup process much faster. But I wasn’t finished just yet!

The last thing I wanted to do was to check to see if the Indexing Service and the Windows Search features were installed. Based upon my personal experience, I’ve solved a lot of performance issues just by turning these features off. I can’t remember the last time I actually searched my hard drive for a file, and should I ever need to in the future, I’ll suffer the slow search results quite happily if this makes my machine run faster the remainder of the time.

So I asked my friend how often she actually searched her hard drive for a file, and she really didn’t even know how to do that. I considered the operation to disable fast searching safe in this case. I Opened the Control Panel and clicked Programs and Features. I then selected Turn Windows features on or off. I then de-selected Indexing Service and Windows Search. Clicked Ok and waited for the operation to complete. I then restarted the machine to complete the operation and rebooted.

This made a huge difference in performance! My friend was totally amazed!

Later in the day, I decided to see if I could get my OfficeLive web site redirecting to my personal web server. Since Microsoft OfficeLive doesn’t allow for any kind of server-side technologies, it’s pretty hard to develop anything decent. So my idea is to use an iframe tag and have that point to my personal web server. I found a great article on using iframes in this manner on the shouldersofgiants web site. But another site stackoverflow iframe 100% height inside body with padding gave me the best solution for my needs right now. Here’s the code I developed. This is a copy of my default.aspx file:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ />
<
title>Tempora Resources Ltd.</title>
<style type=”text/css”>
html
, body { margin: 0; padding: 0; height: 100%; }
#bar { height: 32px; background: red; }
iframe
{
position
: absolute;
top
: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;
border
: none; padding-top: 0; margin-top:auto;
box-sizing
: border-box; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
}
</
style>
</head>
<body>
<iframe name=”childframe” id=”childframe” src=”https://www.larrybrouwer.com/” frameborder=”0″ marginwidth=”0px” marginheight=”0px” scrolling=”yes”></iframe>
</body>
</html>

Filed Under: Daily Log Tagged With: iframe, OfficeLive, Windows 7

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