My SCH-i760 just doesn’t have the horsepower to carry the demand of WM 6.1 threaded threaded text messaging, so I turned it off by editing the registry.
Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Settings\OEM\
Under the registry key, create a new DWORD value with value name as SMSInboxThreadingDisabled and set its value data to 1.
Seems to work well.
Man — I was at the end of my rope with Firefox this week.
It loaded so slowly that after clicking the Firefox icon, that I could click Opera and IE and both of them would load in advance of Firefox.
So I did some digging and found this from the good folks at PortableApps.com:
http://portableapps.com/support/firefox_portable#performance
The part I implemented was the Session Restore portion. The procedure reads as follows:
Disable Session Restore / Undo Close Tab – Firefox 2.0 introduced a new feature called session restore. It keeps track of all your open windows and tabs and can restore your session if Firefox should crash. While a handy feature, it does have the unfortunate side effect of writing to disk on every page load, which slows down Firefox Portable. In Firefox 3.0, this feature was enhanced to provide more features but at the cost of more disk writes (which is why Firefox Portable asks on first run if you’d like to disable it). There’s no option to disable it in the usual Tools – Options windows, but you can disable it manually.
- In Firefox’s address bar, type in about:config and then hit enter
- Right-click on any entry and select New – Boolean
- For the name, enter browser.sessionstore.enabled and click OK
- Select false and then click OK
When you restart Firefox, session restore (and undo close tab) will be disabled and you should notice an improvement in browsing speed.
Bang — Firefox is pretty fast at loading again. Almost as fast as Opera.
I may be sorry I did this because Firefox crashes on my Vista and XP machines at least daily. I use the session restore when it crashes. We’ll see how important it really is, I guess.
Thanks PortableApps.com!
While visiting some friends, my Inspiron 6400 kept dropping the wireless connection with their Actiontec DSL Modem/Router. It happened a couple times each hour. Not only did it drop the connection, it was unable to renegotiate it. Looking for wireless networks in vista on the Inspiron showed none, a surprising read since when I first connected the Inspiron found at least a dozen in this community.
The only fix was to turn off the wireless card in the laptop and turn it back on. It didn’t just happen to my Inspiron. It happened to my wife’s Acer.
Reading around on the net, I found that some people blamed the problem on interference on channel 6 from other wireless networks. Some suggested changing to channel 11. Nope. No better.
But then I changed to channel 1. Ha! I’ve been connected for about nine hours without being dropped once. Looks like that fixed it.
What’s puzzling is why my Inspiron, when dropped from the network, couldn’t find any of the other networks until the wireless card was restarted.
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