Hi,

I am new to Solidworks, having used Pro-E in the past. Up until yesterday, i thought Solidworks was absolute rubbish, everything runs really slow, regenerating for ages etc. then i ran the bench mark tests and the results are about 8 times slower than similar systems on the comparison tables. i got 344.9 for the CPU and 178.1 for the graphics, if you arrange the order of the table for the slowest system, mine will probably come pretty far up the list . Considering this system was recomended by solidworks i am a bit surprised. it is a dell i7 M4600 laptop with a NVIDIA Quadro 1000m graphics card. has anyone got any tips to speed up the system, or programs that are running in the background that could cause such poor times in the benchmark test? any help would be appreciated, i have never had to sort hardware stuff before. many thanks