Super Slow Brand New Laptop? - I have a solution

My Dell E6510 laptop with core i5 processor was running super slow and I tried everything to get it running fast.

It is crazy to see what made it work finally!

1) Firstly select the high performance power plan
2) Change Plan Settings >> Change Advanced Plan Settings
3) Processor Power Management >> Minimum Power State
4) Set both values to 99%

Voila!

Problem solved. This laptop was super slow even with 8GB RAM and a hybrid 7200RPM HDD. So, none of those are the solutions.

[Update: 7-AUG-2011]: As I originally suspected, we can squeeze even more performance from this laptop. I installed windows 2008 server r2 sp1 on the laptop, and it runs even more faster now. Every bit of speed increase helps I guess.

Sweaty leather chair?

You can get the two piece cushion from any department store.

Put it on the seat, and say bye bye to sweaty backsides!!

Improved news results starting now...

I have implemented a major change which will ensure that the most interesting articles will come to you before the boring/ junk ones. It has already started working as of now.

Things are going to get better now..

sql server 2008 r2 sp2 saves the day!

The whole of last year was a struggle because sql server was acting up. Basically it would not utilize resources to scale up properly and used to choke in certain queries.

Even though we optimized to the max, the condition remained the same forcing me to think whether there is anything more which could be done in SQL.

Not anymore!

After installing SP2, I see tremendous improvement in scalability and performance. The site is running very well, and I am happy to move ahead to focus on improving the content, rather than fighting with SQL just to survive!!

- previously deadlocks used to bring down the entire database, now it is handled properly like Oracle does.

- previously long running queries used to bring down the entire database, now that is handled in a much better way.

All services are up again

I would like to announce that today American services are up & running again.

With the readability plugin in the reeder iPhone app, it has become an awesome experience reading articles.

one of the file paths specified for backup is under a reparse point

I was getting this error trying to configure backup on my windows 2008 server r2 box.

I closed the UI, reopened it, unselected bare metal recovery, removed some of the unwanted folders from the C: drive which I wanted to exclude. This time, I did not uncheck some of the users who I had tried to exclude the last time.

It went ahead and created the backup schedule successfully.

Windows 7 Backup failed with weird error

Ran chkdsk with repair option, took an hour and a half, now backup runs fine.