"Itinerantscholar" <Itinerantscholar@xxxxxx> wrote in
message news:CDD65D7B-6B32-4024-9B33-5D6B772ABEEE@xxxxxx
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> I bought a Dell Inspiron 1501 with Vista on it. It has the typical
> performance problems that have been noted for laptops running Vista. It
> receives a "Windows Experience Index" of 2.0.
>
> The first thing you are told to do to improve performance is eliminate
> programs from startup. But when I go through the long list of programs, I
> often can't tell what they do. For instance, I see in this list
> "Avantquest
> Digital Line Detection," "Dell Quick Set," "Synaptics Pointing Device,"
> and
> "Java (TM) Platform SE 6U5," among many others. Do I just start
> experimenting and see what happens when I turn them off? That seems very
> risky. After all, that "pointing device"--that's my touchpad, isn't it?
> If
> I turned off my touchpad, I think my computer would be useless to me,
> because
> I do not know how to turn the touchpad on again without the touchpad.
>
> In short: is there a way to know which programs would be the best ones to
> turn off? In case it is not already obvious, I do not know a lot about
> computers. My experience with Vista has been frustrating, because I feel
> like I do not have the specialized technical training required to make my
> laptop work well.
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If you want to know what an item is or what it does you can type the
item into a searchbar and discover its purpose.
If you don't need access to a program at startup you can disable it.
You can then go to your All Programs list at any time and activate it when
it is needed.
C.B.
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