Speed greatly increased

I bought a new laptop a few months ago. It's been performing well, however I forgot all about my Advanced System Settings. I adjusted my last pc for best performance, I forgot about these settings for my NEW laptop until tonight. Wow! So much faster in every way!

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John Fidel

Shawn, I am glad to see you making a positive comment about the software. I hope you find joy in studying the Bible with this software. I do in spite of work still needing to be done.[:)]

Larry D. Lindow

How would I do this on my computer?

Timothy Ha

What OS are you using? Did you optimize something general, or something inside Logos?

Rosie Perera

I'm guessing this is Windows "Advanced system settings," accessible via the Control Panel System applet:

Click Settings...

Then select "Adjust for best performance" on the Visual Effects tab, and optimize virtual memory on the Advanced Tab (see here for more info on that: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314482, and also Google search for "optimizing virtual memory" "windows 7" -- or substitute XP or Vista, whatever version of Windows you've got).

Shawn Drewett

Your right Rosie. The only thing I have checked on the list of Visual Effects (pictured below) is "Smooth edges of screen fonts."

John, I have a lot positive to say about the software. Sorry if I sounded totally negative. Nevertheless, for 6 months I've had no speed issues except with Logos. This will help I'm sure!

Robert Pavich

I had forgotten about this "fix" so I did it..(and checked a few "must haves" for me....the smoothing of screen fonts...the tool bar styles..etc...just a little bit of eye candy...but it still improved speed for me...(and the speed was good before this)

tom

The question that I have is why do I need to do this to run L4 and not any other program? I have other programs (video/photo) programs that will use every resource that is available, and they are not as slow as L4.

John Fidel

John, I have a lot positive to say about the software. Sorry if I sounded totally negative. Nevertheless, for 6 months I've had no speed issues except with Logos. This will help I'm sure!

Shawn,

My post was only intended to praise you, not to be critical in any way.

Robert Pavich

The question that I have is why do I need to do this to run L4 and not any other program? I have other programs (video/photo) programs that will use every resource that is available, and they are not as slow as L4.

I use Photoshop and I would love it to be faster; sometimes when editing a photo it's so slow you'd think that it crashed, but it's just the nature of large processor/memory intensive work...I do this fix for my Laptop in general (normally) and not JUST Logos, but I had just formatted it and forgot to reset everything.

Dale Winters

Another thing you can do to speed up L4 is to up its CPU priority.

If you load L4, start up task manager, go to processes tab, right click the Logos exe, go to priority on the menu, and move it from normal to high (realtime will not work/you can only go as high as high).

This should increase the speed noticably, at least it seems to have for me.

Shawn Drewett

Thanks for the tip Dale!

Shawn Nichols

Thanks for the tip, Shawn. Hope to see you again soon.

Rosie, thanks for the setup instructions

Larry L. Dix

For people like me (not familiar with how to do this) could you make some suggestions as to which box to check for optimum performance in L4. Did the Google search and found it to confusing for my simple mind.

Thanks for your help.

Donnie Hale

Another thing you can do to speed up L4 is to up its CPU priority.

An application's CPU priority impacts how and when the operating system decides to "let" the CPU run that application (versus another application). Increasing it for a program will only improve that program's priority if it's competing with other programs for CPU time. So if you have significant background tasks or if you're running some other CPU intensive application, this can help. If L4 is the only app you're running, this won't change anything.

Note that I *decrease* the CPU priority of the L4 indexer if I'm trying to get interactive work done in some other application.

Donnie