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My desktop computer has more RAM and more CPU than my laptop, but is three times slower than the laptop.
- both are brand new Windows 7 installations
- from how I understand the rating, my desktop seems to have problems with windows aero, so I took it off but the speed increase was not great
Why would my desktop computer be so much slower? What could be causing this?
Desktop computer (slow):
Time to start Visual Studio 2010 and create new WPF project:
- with Aero theme: 85 seconds
- without Aero: 72 seconds
Laptop (faster):
Time to start Visual Studio 2010 and create new WPF project:
- with Aero theme: 32 seconds
- without Aero theme: 32 seconds
Both machines are new Windows 7 installations. I ran the disk defragmenter on the slow machine and it says the disk is 2% fragmented, so I don't think defragmenting it would improve the speed too much. One difference is the slow machine is running Microsoft's antivirus software: http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/, I'll check that.
– Edward Tanguay – 2009-10-25T15:15:33.153Try switching off "real time protection" in the MSE settings and see if that makes a difference... – KristoferA – 2009-10-25T15:20:28.900
I turned off "real time protection" in MSE and the above test was 70 seconds: no noticable difference. – Edward Tanguay – 2009-10-25T15:52:51.847