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Winpad 110w CPU high usage - slow response
yellowshoe:
I bought a Winpad 110w to test to see if it would work for my organization (Government agency). It came with Windows 7 home edition. The device is very slow. Ran "taskmgr.exe" and opening just an application the CPU would sky high to 100% usage. I read some forum and it claim that if you upgrade it to Windows 7 pro it would help. So I did the upgrade to Windows 7 pro and just have the basic driver on so the tablet would work, no other software like camera, bluetooth, etc. Even after the upgrade to window 7 pro, this tablet is still very slow and show high CPU usage.
Device specs: AMD Z-01, 4GB of RAM, 32 bit OS Win 7 pro, page file is set to SD card with 8GB.
Does anyone have this problem too? Any help is greatly appreciate?
Should I update the bios?
iPokey:
Page file on SD is a very bad idea. Move it to the flash module.
Check your RAM usage.
Check for viruses.
Run task manager and monitor the cpu usage from the start.
yellowshoe:
Even before setting page file to the SD card, the device is already slow out of the box. After the upgrade to Win 7 pro with less software install, it is still slow. So I thought I'd try the page file option, but it didn't do much.
Memory usage is average. Nothing stands out.
I don't want to conclude that this device is one of bad one that was made. I hope I'm not the first or only one that have this problem. And certainly, I don't want to lose confident in this device being use by non technical users for business purpose.
I will change page file to a flash usb to see if it would make a different (I doubt it). Anyone on have other suggestions, please do let me know.
Ex Forum User 3:
Mine isn't slow, but I have locked paging in size on the onboard "drive" just set to 1GB.
But please define slow, as I run Linux on it too and Windows is incredibly slow to my standards.
Linux takes seconds to load, but Windows7 Pro about 2 minutes from powerdown.
Windows 7 is simply crap on these devices, no other word for it.
yellowshoe:
Slow define as -
when opening a internet explorer session, it will take about 5-10 second to open. The CPU would spike up to a 100% usage. This is true for other windows application such as control panel, window explorer, etc. I don't even have third party on this device.
I'm think maybe this device just happened to be a manfactured one.
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