What happened to Multitasking.
With this new Win7 installation, I experience some differences in processing from my old XP.
Obviously, the more programs you have started, the slower is the overall processing of the programs.
On the XP installation this happened on a "normal" level. When stressing the computer, it would respond with slowing down and return the "Program not Responding" messages once in a while until such time as either I had stopped something to aliviate the computer or some high consumption processing in one of the programs had finished. Bu XP kept on accepting input like mouse clicks and such.With Win7 I experience this in another way. The computer becomes unresponsive. It does not freeze, only stops letting me do anything like starting even more programs or changing windows. It looks like a freeze but when Win7 finishes whatever it was doing that needed high CPU consumption, it returns actively and starts responding normally again.
I wonder if this is a new way of controlling the multitasking or if something is wrong.
Ambidextrous installed Windows 7 Release Candidate on an HP Pavilion dv1000 Laptop with a Centrino 1.86 GB CPU and 2 GB RAM.- Tipo cambiadoRonnie VernonMVP, Moderadorsábado, 04 de julio de 2009 2:46Discuss
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- Hello Ambidexterous,
In my opinion this is not an unreasonable responce for a computer under a heavy workload to prevent opening too much more. I would much rather have it stop me then crash itself. Is the computer your testing working with all functions of Aero and 3-D desktop experience working?
-Scott - Windows 7 (and Vista) have actually improved how they respond under load. Now the IO can be prioritized, so a background program can say that it doesn't matter if it's data arrives a little later. Then foreground programs can finish first. It could be that some devices on your machine do not have well-written or optimized drivers yet. Some not-so-great drivers spend a long time digesting data when they should return control to the OS. That causes stutters. I would recommend looking for the newest drivers for your devices. Also upgrading your memory is a great option to speed up your computer. The resource monitor is a good tool to monitor which process slows everything down, or if you don't have enough memory.
- Hi SaMcp1123 and MartinStein.
I'm not saying that this is a bad thing - merely observing a change in the behaviour XP versus Win7. Actually it IS positive when the computer says "Hold on a minute, I'm getting too busy" and not letting me activate more tasks.
Actually, I wish my boss could be programmed with Win7 :-)
I do believe all my drivers are the newest ones. The only one that buzzes me a bit is the audio driver. Take for example a little quick alert sound for new incoming mail (notify.wav). If I have not been using audio for some time, all I hear is a scratch in the speaker. You get the impression that the service has to start first and when that has happened, the sound has already played. When the second and third mail comes in and also trigger the alarm the sound comes out nicely. I wonder if it would be better to have the 2 audio services start manually instead of automatically?
Memory upgrade.
Yeah... This is a 32 bit machine with 2 GB RAM in it and that memory is quite new and severely and repeatedly tested by the memory tester that comes with Win7 so I do believe that part to be okay. One thing only is that I never ever see a RAM consumption of over 1 - 1.2 GB. The consumption lies quite stable at that level.
All aero and 3D works quite fine.
Ambidextrous installed Windows 7 Release Candidate on an HP Pavilion dv1000 Laptop with a Centrino 1.86 GB CPU and 2 GB RAM.
