[TenTec] (ham station computer choice)

[K8JHR]

Hi Jim -- do a web crawl and search out sites which explain how to run 
the box lean and mean and free from all those unnecessary applets and 
utilities vendors install to give the impression you get a lot for your 
money.  Speech recognition enthusiasts are some of the best at doing 
this because they know each applet open and running consumes a time 
slice out of each processor cycle, robbing the recognition engine of 
valuable calculation time.  Kill as many as you can to give your main 
applications more processor time.

Also, there are helpful utilities and ways to reduce the number of 
"services" running under Windows.   Many programs load all or part of 
their main program on start up to give the illusion they start fast. 
You CAN alter the boot up routine to prevent them from starting like 
that.  One way is to look in the "tray" (the little bunch of icons in 
the lower right had corner on a Windows box) and enter the preferences 
for each, closing or exiting as many of them as possible - hoping to 
find you can keep them from starting every time you reboot.  Remember, 
some of them are not displayed on the Task Bar, but you may find them by 
activating the little up-arrow button you find next to the clock 
(assuming it is showing).

A nice Saturday afternoon project ... searching out how to do all this 
in some systematic way.

Good luck.
--------------------- K8JHR ------------------------------

On 5/7/2014 11:09 AM, Jim Allen wrote:
> I just bought a Dell and wonder how to test it for suitability, get rid of
> all the add on nonsense.  I'd be glad just to be up to speed on W7,
> actually, having put off moving from XP for a long time while you computer
> geniuses handled the beta testing.
>
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