Using Linux to speed up PC

50Twuncle

I have been looking in to booting my PC using a Linux partition on my C: drive, to speed booting up - and have come up with nothing
Has anyone succeeded in using PUPPYLINUX to do this ?
I have tried booting from USB loaded with Linux and have, again failed
Any advice welcome ....

closed

If you want to speed up windows, post a hijackthis log and details of installed ram

If you still want to pursue linux post more details of what is happening

50Twuncle

closed wrote: »

If you want to speed up windows, post a hijackthis log and details of installed ram

If you still want to pursue linux post more details of what is happening

Right - to start with - my HP G56 laptop will not boot from USB key, it will boot from USB floppy.. tried .. no good
So - I assumed that I would need to boot from CD - copied iso image to blank CD - didn't work - so created partition and copied iso image to that - then tried to change to boot partition
I have 4Gb ram and am running Win 7 64bit

closed

did you burn the iso image as a disc image, or just a file?

unless you have bloated it up since purchase, the machine should boot fast under windows 7

how are you planning to use it when you have booted into linux?

50Twuncle

closed wrote: »

did you burn the iso image as a disc image, or just a file?

unless you have bloated it up since purchase, the machine should boot fast under windows 7

how are you planning to use it when you have booted into linux?

I just burnt an image of the downloaded file
The laptop is a cheap one (powered by an AMD V140 processor and boots relatively slowly under Win 7) - so is not that quick
I just want to be able to access email faster than at present (about 2 mins 30 secs)
How fast should Linux boot up ? 30 secs ?

closed

post a hijackthis log

did it take 2.5 minutes to boot when you bought it?

iso images have to burnt as images, not files, otherwise they wont boot, try using imgburn

xrjtg

21Twinkle wrote: »

How fast should Linux boot up ? 30 secs ?

That depends on a lot of factors. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 on a laptop that's coming up to 5 years old, and that's about right for me.

50Twuncle

No - it has slowed down considerably
I have downloaded imgburn and tried to create a CD - from the ISO image - but the folder will not go across - just individual files !!

closed

http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/hijackthis/beta/HijackThis.exe

or

backup data, and restore to factory defaults using the recovery partition, and it won't be slow

there is only one file, the iso, write image file to disc option

50Twuncle

closed wrote: »

http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/hijackthis/beta/HijackThis.exe

or

backup data, and restore to factory defaults using the recovery partition, and it won't be slow

there is only one file, the iso, burn as disc image

It is a single core 2.2Ghz - trying to run 64bit Windows 7 - It is never going to break any records - is it ?

closed

you said it was faster before

it's a new machine, it shouldn't take 2.5 minutes to boot