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Looking for Farm Town Speed Solutions

Jason Bean — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:52:28 +0000

Let me warn you right now. This is not an important post at all. There are far more important topics taking place in the computer industry. However, this post I hope will interest a number of people that are as addicted to playing Farm Town on Facebook as I am.

There’s no need for an intervention for me and my enjoyment of Farm Town on Facebook. But my friend, who’s responsible for my joining the game, and I regularly talk about our farms with each other and help each other out with the harvesting and plowing of our fields.

My frustration is that when I try to help him on his farm the speed is agonizingly slow! I can plow and plant my entire farm in about 15 minutes tops, but if I try to harvest on his farm I can only click on one square at a time and wait for each harvest to complete before moving to the next one. I don’t know what the problem is, but I’d love to find a solution.

Does anyone have an idea of how to speed things up when I’m working on his farm?

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Looking for Farm Town Speed Solutions

See DRASTIC Speed Improvements in Vista

Jason Bean — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:19:33 +0000

One of the biggest complaints I’ve both heard and personally seen with Windows Vista is that sometimes navigating through a file directory structure is agonizingly slow.

Here’s a fix we’ve stumbled across that makes a DRASTIC speed increase for this process. The solution was found on Microsoft TechNet and is amazing in the comparative results that are noticed.

Please perform the following actions to check the result:

Turn off Auto Tuning on the Windows Vista machine:

Click Start, and type cmd in the Start Search box.

Right-click the cmd icon, and select Run as Administrator.

In the Command Prompt, type the following command:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

After that, please check the result.
Note: Please re-enable Auto Tuning by typing the following command if the above steps cannot fix the issue:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

Install the updates KB938194 and KB938979 on the Windows Vista machine.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938194
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938979

On the one laptop we’ve tested this on the results of changing this setting were absolutely amazing. It felt like an upgrade of tripling the RAM on a machine that was only running 128MB.

Vista is still fast when you change it back as well

One thing we changed that wasn’t mentioned above is that after we tried it, we changed the setting back on the autotuninglevel = normal. The speed improvements were still noticed. It’s almost like the system had to flush a file or something.

Regardless, if you find yourself waiting seconds for directory files to open and display folders, try this fix and let us know what you think.

I should also say something like it may not work for you and I’m not responsible if it blows up your computer. I’m still shocked at the difference I just saw though, and it wasn’t my laptop.

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See DRASTIC Speed Improvements in Vista

Is Office 2007 Too Slow For You?

Jason Bean — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:49:15 +0000

Reading through another old article at Forever Geek about Office 2007’s problems being sluggish, it makes me wonder if everyone is experiencing this type of bottleneck on speed when using the latest version of the Microsoft product.

Anytime there’s a question I’m curious about, one of the great things about this blog is that I can post a question to the readers and get an answer that my wondering ears have been yearning for. So, here it is, the latest poll.

Have you experienced a major speed issue since upgrading to Office 2007?

{democracy:8}

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Is Office 2007 Too Slow For You?