I just ran Lavalys's Everest Home Edition and found that my laptop is not running at full speed. In fact, it is running at 1.2 GHz (as opposed to the 2 GHz that I thought it was running at. I went into the power settings and set it to "Max Performance" which one would assume would make it up the clock speed. Unfortunatley, it did not. So, I realize that underclocking the CPU helps to save power but I rarely use it while it's not plugged in. Could anyone help me figure out how to get my computer to run at full speed? Thanks in advance. Alert me after you respond otherwise I'll forget to come back.

I wouldn't get too bent out of shape quite yet...Everest gives you a literal clock speed at THAT specific time and fails to take into account things like other programs running... The manufacturer weather your talking computers or cars... always gives you the BEST case. Kill all your services, run with a cool processor on a fresh boot... and anything else you can think of to ease the processors' job and try it again. If you come up with the same thing...THEN PANIC.

Go back into BIOS and set Custom power settings to run at full speed all the time, even on battery. Laptops are notorious for this, although I have never seen one running 40% slower, I have seen 100-300Mhz drops. My older Thinkpad (T21) would lose 100 Mhz and my newer Thinkpad (T41)loses around 200 Mhz. You can also use the winmsd command that comes with XP. It is fairly accurate. Rule #1: Good Computers don't go down. Rule #2: There is no such thing as a good computer.