Windows 7 slow after clean install

[Jake Barr]

Personally, I disable ALL updaters and take responsibility to do them manually.
( what a waste of time / battery when at a hotspot!).

I like Spybot S&D for disabling startups. Easy to read and use.

I disabled ALL Dell services and Uninstalled a flock of Toolbar C*** on day-1.

I'll try disabling and uninstalling all the toshiba software that I can, I'm actually on a different system at the moment. I guess I overlooked disabling updaters. I have, however, disabled many start-up programs. Start-up time isn't so much an issue for me. I don't mind waiting a few more seconds at start-up. I mainly need responsiveness while using audio programs and while playing media (along with the usual internet browsing).

 

[Jad Chaar]

Awe heck, I'll show the math myself:

Time for one I/o to complete is delayed by:​

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1) time to move the arm to the right cylinder/head​

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2) time to position to the right record​

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3) time to transfer x bytes via DMA​

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The big advantage of SSD is the absence of any real time for events 1+2.​

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#2 is taken to 1/2 of the rotation of the platter (on an average).​

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7200rpm is 7200/60sec = 120 revs/sec, so one rev is 0.0083 sec / rev​

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5400rpm is 5400/60sec = 90 revs/sec, so one rev is 0.0111 sec / rev​

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The difference between 7200 vs 5400 is 0.0028 sec (ignoring the 1/2 rotation)​

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It take 355.73 I/O events to consume ONE second and 1067 events use THREE seconds.​

You have to extremely picky to even feel 3 second difference

+1

 

[DelJo63]

I don't mind waiting a few more seconds at start-up. I mainly need responsiveness while using audio programs and while playing media (along with the usual internet browsing).

Yes they have the most impact during startup or logon, but they impact your memory and take space out of the pagefile,
thus inducing more paging. DISABLE whatever you are not using.