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Have you used Windows 7 much? The firewall is no longer the "Allow/Block" only version that was included in previous versions. And similarly, I've found it qui
by encoderer 16y ago
Have you used Windows 7 much? The firewall is no longer the "Allow/Block" only version that was included in previous versions.
And similarly, I've found it quite responsive. If you're on a laptop -- and it's Vista -- then it probably suffers from the same issue a lot of laptops do: it's not the cores that's the problem, it's the RPMs. Pop a SSD in there and it'll sing. In the meantime, if you're on Win7, stick a USB stick in and let Readyboost do it's thing. At least 2 GB. Preferably bigger. Readyboost never wowed me in Vista and in 7 it's still not "wowable" i guess (i mean, wowable is a high bar to attain) but it definitely works to speed things up.
- viraptor 16y agoConsidering I've got a crappy, bottom of the range laptop at home and the latency of all actions is much, much lower (on ubuntu), I'm sticking to "7's fault" rather than buying more equipment. The other laptop has a 7200 rpm disk with 16GB ram to use for (pre)caching and I'm complaining about latency of basic action like work with Outlook or using explorer to look through folders - how hard can it be to display emails/files? Thanks for the info about the firewall - I can't find anything advanced however. Have you got some links / screens? I can see only the same old on / off / per-application thing.
- encoderer 16y agoOoh maybe you're on Windows 7 home? I'm on professional. That could be a difference. When I use it, I go to: Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Firewall and then select "advanced settings" on the left. Do you have that option?