Shared Video memory reduction

50Twuncle

andy2004 wrote: »

I wouldnt get rid of the recovery partition you only need 1 infection and then your screwed, then you'll be moaning about reinstalling.
And your also wrong about no software installed to do the recovery. its very likely on the recovery partition. think of it more like a dual boot, but instead of it saying boot from windows 7, from xp / vista you have Press F11 for recovery or leave to boot windows.
whats 10secs these days. heres an idea dont like the long boot, how about leaving it on 24/7 then you wont need to worry about how long it takes.

Things which cause delay's in boot time, 1 all the processes windows uses, 2 loading of drivers, 3 loading of the registry which over time can become bloated and filled with old information. 4 program which you have starting at load times.
Fact: windows doesnt load all of the processes it needs at startup if it did your system would take even longer, instead the processes are delay and loaded, aka wait 3secs before loading this process, wait 6secs before thisone. imagine it as your broadband connection, try loading 100 tabs windows in firefox and see how long the first page takes to load, then do the same thing with 5tab then wait 10secs do another 5 and so on, you'll find they will load quicker with the delays.
I have a hex core amd processor, and i play games on my onboard graphics card, it uses my system memory. games plays better on this system than it did on my old single core + geforce 6600 machine.
so playing games using onboard is acceptable these days, they are better than say 5years ago.
i rarely turn my pc off, and i never worry about the startup times

Why should I want to keep the recovery partition ?
It contains Win 7 premium - I have already upgraded using my original Win 7 Professional software !!
As for leaving it on 24/7 - you are not exactly being green by doing that - plus it does cost money to run PC's (or does your daddy pay the electricity bill ?)

andy2004

I didnt say I leave my computer on 24/7 I do for instance download at night when my internet speed is suppose to be quicker, I also need to leave the computer on when running a dupehunter to find all the damn duplicates i seem to gather. But it doesnt cost that much to run a computer 24/7, it only draws the power it needs to run the hdds, a little else, so your looking at 25-35watts of power. graphics are onboard so no power for that, monitor is off, as power is done in KwH, i reckon it uses around 50watts max so thats 1000watts / 50 watts = 200hrs got a whopping 12p.
now as for daddy paying the bill he'll have a job considering he died back in 1999. and my mum doesnt care about the cost any more. she's already on the cheapest deal going with southern electric/gas, and i'm the one who keeps an eye on the price.
We use energy saving light bulbs where we can.
but then we have other items which use more than they should, 2 freezers 1 fridge, 2 lcd tv's. kettle, dont use a hifi for music listen via the computer.
and i dont believe that anything i can personally do will make 1 bit of difference in making the enviroment better / cleaner.
simple fact, American and Japan are 2 of the countries who are doing more pollution than the UK, but then they are a hell of a lot bigger than us.
If we britons changed and went back to nature, and i mean all of us, do you really think that would actually make 1 bit of difference cause i dont.

50Twuncle

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50 watts is 1/20 kw - which costs around 1p per hour !!

sk240

A PC of the above spec will idle at around 180-200 watts and max out at about 350 watts. (i have measured my i5 with 4770 graphics and SSD)cheap rate elec is around 13p per kw, so 1 hour at idle cost aprox 2.6p, playing games aprox 4p per hour.