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i think its going to be one of those "just have to take it" scenarios.

yeah..im just going to chauk it up to crappy software....i also ran performance advisor..under system health: CPU is idle or low Network - Busiest network adapter is less than 15% memory 51% available mbytes 5028 disk i/o 13 /sec highest disk i/o is less than 100/sec on disk x well any other way to speed up a program? is started slowing down (slow load times) when the company gave us an update, and required we have all of our systems upgraded to .Net Framework 3.5. After that...its been a headache. So I have bandaided stuff here and there... thanks for the help guys

well i ran the perfwiz for one hour during our peak usage. I added every counter to see which peaked, and which one was constantly over 50..heres what i found: everything looked normal, the the network counter Total Bandwidth stayed peaked at 100. Our server is an 8 processor, and 10GB of ram...i guess i am looking at every thing when it comes to this software we have to run.

it is connected at 1GBps. I wanna say both Read/Write Bytes and then just Network Usage....it also pulls part of the application from SQL server. I take it since your a moderator you frequent these rooms quite often, so I will get a screen shot up tomorrow from the server. Any certain counters you would like to see?

we don't control the queries. we installed charting/medical record software, and the company, built the sql server, we can not modify the queries. im just looking at any way to speed up performance any..

Im trying to get some documentation that deals with Network Load Balancing in Windows Server 2003. We have a SQL server at work with around 50 25-30 users reading/writing data to it at any given point. Our server has 2x gigabit ethernet cards in it. Can I load balance on one server with 2 nics? Will we see any performance gain? I did a performance counter on the network interface, and it stays pegged at 100. Just looking for some light to be shed on this subject.

Our agreement to be incompliant with state, our company has to upgrade a minimum of 6 computers a year. I have picked out the 6 computers that we are going to replace. We buy all of our equipment from Dell, and I have picked out 2 that I think will be more then ok for what we do. Dell Optiplex 740's and 760's are on the list to purchase. All the end user needs a computer for is a network application that pulls data from a database which is on our servers. Other then that application and MS Office, that is all that is ran around here. The only difference in the 740's and the 760's are the chips...the 740's have AMD Athlon 64s and the 760s have Intel dual core. The 740's are around $140 cheaper. Will the chip difference make a bit of difference with just these two apps running. Oh yeah, each computer is configured with 3gb of ram and 160gb hard drives, and a downgrade option to Windows XP Pro. thanks

nevermind i think i got it right. System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(ip).AddressList(0).ToString

I am trying to write just a simple application with VB2008, one form, 2 buttons, the 1st button gets the hostname, the 2nd button needs to get the ip address of the machine its ran on. the first button works. heres what I got for button 2: Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click Dim ip As String Dim resolve As Decimal ip = (Net.Dns.GetHostName) resolve = (Net.Dns.GetHostAddresses(ip)) MessageBox.Show(resolve) End Sub

We use this software at work where our nurses have to type departmental notes. The software we use is buggy as hell, and once or twice a day we get run-time errors, and the nurse will loose her note. I thought about writing a simple app that will start when windows does. I need it to record the past 8100 characters. This way if we get a runtime error in the charting software, the user can open up the "clipboard" copy and paste the note, thus resulting in less production time. Does this sound doable with Visual Basic? Thanks I am new the visual basic world.

The switches are linked together through their gigabit ports. We have wireless ap's setup for the nurses, so they can take their tablet pcs with them when they administer medications. Is the System Monitor a reliable way to check the load of the SQL server? I added a SQL server counter to it, and it stays pegged at 100. I guess I will just have to deal with it, I have no way to rewrite the database querys. The companies software we use sets the database up, and they will only have it run on SQL Server.

Hi! I am very new VBscript, and I was wondering if it could help me out here. What I got is, 17-18 Kiosks that a user clicks on an icon and it loads of a program so the user can chart on patients. What I am having problems with is the employees don';t understand computers, and don't think to check the taskbar for the program to see if its already running, so therefore they are clicking on the icon again and loading another instance of the program. So every 2-3 days someone complains that the computer is slow, and I go down to check it out, and their are 10-15 instance of same program running and it has ate all of my system resources up, I close them all down, and its back to normal. Can I make a script that the user clicks on and launches the program, but only allows 1 instance of the program to run, or maybe 2 at the most? Thanks

I took a job this past month as the "IT guy", so therefore I have inherited the problems with this network! What we have are 17 wall computers"ELO Entuitives" 2 servers and dozen or so workstations. The elos are for employees to access medical records and chart on patients. The database server, holds all of this data. All of these are hooked to 2x 48port 10/100 switches, with 4 gigabit ethernet ports on each. The only thing we have on the gigabit ports are the servers. We have experiencing slow load times on the client software that is ran from the ELO's, which pulls all the info from the db server. My question is...will switching to all 1000 ports help us in this situation? Oh yeah, we also have 9 Cisco Wireless Access Points attached to these switches also. For a test, could I hook a couple of the elo's to the remaining gigabit ports to see if this will speed network load times up? Also, what is a good tool that I can measure how much network load is on our network. thanks a bunch!

We have exchange setup to only do inside LAN emailing. Can I setup email forwarding on certain users so they can receive their emails from home on their external account; yahoo, gmail, live, etc?