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Hello there I really appreciate anyone input here thanks in advance
I have had a terribley slow ts816 for the last year, I have tried everything to speed this puppy up.
I can usually tolerate it being slow except for media.
problems
1. Skype calls are broken ( voice over voice echo even)
2. Playing music has silent breaks in it .. but did just upgrade a soundmax driver and is better
3. can not use the external mic .. plugging in does not disengage the ts array mics.
I have hired professional vista people to optimize my machine and still to no avail, it almost feels like bad ram.
Anyhow I just noticed the large amount to disking ( 57%) when I am only using 2.5 megs of the 4 meg ram?????
IS IT POSSIBLE to prevent from using the disking and restricted to ram only.
I am ready to try anything here find my 4 year old computer has much better Skype calls

DaveTN said: Bill, Vista uses a dynamic swap file to store things to in place of RAM. You can set the size of it to custom and that should cut down on some of the constant disk thrashing. To do that, right click on "my computer" then choose properties. In the properties menu, choose the advanced tab and in the advanced tab, choose "change" button for virtual memory. Set your max and min to just a bit more than the amount of ram that you have. I have 4 gigs of RAM so I have my max and min swap file set to 5800. It will require a reboot once you make the changes. That should help minimize the constant disk thrashing. Hope that helps. David

Hi David

 you are the master expert with all your posts wow.

I know the work it takes to be a moderator .... good job and thanks from the ts community.

David, man I have been around the block on this.  Yes i do have my virtual ram set at 4,380 with 4 meg real ram machine.

even though most pc health indicators are all find like clean out the Recycle Bin, temporary internet files, defrag,  recently run an optimizer daily called Pit stop.

I will admit I have a ton of applications, like OLD school better homes and gardens home design with an 80 meg download alone, cs4, cell phone simulators with js net beans etc. but recently have even tried to delete some of these.

 One would think that if you don't run these programs that they don't affect a minimal daily operational run.

In other words I If just run the basics, NO HP media center, but Internet Explorer 8 windows explorer and Skype that I should run like rockets.

 To No avail, I have even gone to the point of deleting every possible active process to see if my Skype conversation became clearer during a conversation.

Over time the only indicator of the slow BUG  ?extensive disking would be when LOADING my computer up and the icons on the desktop render at 1-3 per second, or that the playing spider  takes 2 seconds to have the cards deal out

 then here I am talking to you on Skype and I make a move on fire fox and your voice cuts out for 1 second .. geeeeeez. Even on my old 900 MHz 1 gig of ram mouldy oldie pc runs smoothly in the same situation.   Icons on desktop,  and playing spider render 5 times faster.

So imagine playing music and having the song cut out during the song??? Man that is not right.

Can you think of any health indicators for smooth running pc, to me when the disking goes to 100% that correlates to the breaks in music.

See attached resource monitor

http://dev.intranetsites.com/index.php?fuseaction=cPageGoTo.GoToDoc&DocumentID=44498

thanks for any input  :)

Does a  guy just close his eyes put head in sand and wait for windows 7?

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