ratchet Posted August 23, 2006 CID Share Posted August 23, 2006 So, some of you may have seen my post in "Help With Other Stuff" about my Weather Pulse desklet temperature image wakening my monitor every time the temperature changes. I'm looking at a thread from January on their support forum about the desklet temp not showing the same as the system tray is showing. The developer or monitor suggests making sure one has the latest: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.mspx Now I realize this is almost the opposite of my problem, but I'm reaching by now, so what the heck, I download and install on my basic two year old 2.8gig Pentium 4, 1gig ram, Dell. Wow, I can't believe how much faster my pc is. I use the TCP Optimizer auto settings, FireTune and Fasterfox. I have know idea whether those three oppose or compliment each other by the way! My ISP advertises up to 5MB download, however, I only ever get those speeds early in the morning. During heavy traffic I can drop below 3. Not tonight! 4+ everywhere I test, a couple 5s also. Web pages are just flying open. Is this really possible or just a coincidence? This definitely happened right after the install though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted August 23, 2006 CID Share Posted August 23, 2006 nice good to here you got your computer working nice and fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratchet Posted August 23, 2006 Author CID Share Posted August 23, 2006 So, some of you may have seen my post in "Help With Other Stuff" about my Weather Pulse desklet temperature image wakening my monitor every time the temperature changes. I'm looking at a thread from January on their support forum about the desklet temp not showing the same as the system tray is showing. The developer or monitor suggests making sure one has the latest: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.mspx Now I realize this is almost the opposite of my problem, but I'm reaching by now, so what the heck, I download and install on my basic two year old 2.8gig Pentium 4, 1gig ram, Dell. Wow, I can't believe how much faster my pc is. I use the TCP Optimizer auto settings, FireTune and Fasterfox. I have no idea whether those three oppose or compliment each other by the way! My ISP advertises up to 5MB download, however, I only ever get those speeds early in the morning. During heavy traffic I can drop below 3. Not tonight! 4+ everywhere I test, a couple 5s also. Web pages are just flying open. Is this really possible or just a coincidence? This definitely happened right after the install though! Also, as crazy as it seems the monitor seems to be staying off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted August 23, 2006 CID Share Posted August 23, 2006 Nice to hear, and the quote was for? ^^^^^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratchet Posted August 23, 2006 Author CID Share Posted August 23, 2006 Nice to hear, and the quote was for? ^^^^^^ Sorry! I was trying to edit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dliw Posted August 23, 2006 CID Share Posted August 23, 2006 Don't post much here but lurk often because of the great information available. This thread is one of many I have taken advantage of. Wasn't having the same problem but needed the DirectX upgrade. Thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted August 24, 2006 CID Share Posted August 24, 2006 Welcome to the forum dliw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nos7667 Posted August 24, 2006 CID Share Posted August 24, 2006 I remember when i bought an extra 2 gigs of ram, that REALLY brought my computer up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted August 24, 2006 CID Share Posted August 24, 2006 Don't post much here but lurk often because of the great information available. This thread is one of many I have taken advantage of. Wasn't having the same problem but needed the DirectX upgrade. Thanks guys. Hi Dliw, welcome to the forum, did you get your link to DX 9.c as some are having problems with downloading , is 9.c the latest ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiberOptic Posted August 24, 2006 CID Share Posted August 24, 2006 never tried that firetune...... so gave it ago... and look :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 9279 Kbps about 9.28 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 1133 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/08/24 - 5:03am Bottom Line:: 162X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.9 sec Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 10.735 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 193.36 % faster than the average for host (co.uk) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-P1TQ5IDSA User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 [!] thats ok...for10mb can be faster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dliw Posted August 24, 2006 CID Share Posted August 24, 2006 Hi Dliw, welcome to the forum, did you get your link to DX 9.c as some are having problems with downloading , is 9.c the latest ? Thank you for the welcome Roco and tommie gorman. Had no problem with the link, download or install. Everything went very smooth. 9.c is the latest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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