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Kevin Hsu
I've been running Vista 5308 on my admittedly slow system:
P4 1.6, 1.5 Gb RAM, Radeon 9550 256MB
I don't think this system is too ghetto. Anyways, here's what I've noticed:
1. Explorer and Vista in general are *really* slow:
- It takes a few minutes to get to an interactive desktop
- All programs take a long time to launch. The HD doesn't look busy,
however. Vista acts like it's waiting on something.
- The UI tends to be really sluggish - scrolling is horrid
- All of these happen with and without glass enabled (ctrl+shift+f9
toggles it)
2. IE takes a very long time to boot up, and often times doesn't even start
at all
- When I am able to start IE, web pages take a *very* long time to load
- IE scrolling is also horridly slow
- Often times, using the search box makes the click sound, but does
nothing. No search results, and no new web pages will load. I have to try
and restart IE.
- Sometimes, IE appears to hang the entire system and I actually have to
hard reboot.
There are zillions of other problems I'm experiencing, but right now I'm a
bit frustrated.
Can anyone here give me an idea if later builds actually improved any of
this significantly?
P4 1.6, 1.5 Gb RAM, Radeon 9550 256MB
I don't think this system is too ghetto. Anyways, here's what I've noticed:
1. Explorer and Vista in general are *really* slow:
- It takes a few minutes to get to an interactive desktop
- All programs take a long time to launch. The HD doesn't look busy,
however. Vista acts like it's waiting on something.
- The UI tends to be really sluggish - scrolling is horrid
- All of these happen with and without glass enabled (ctrl+shift+f9
toggles it)
2. IE takes a very long time to boot up, and often times doesn't even start
at all
- When I am able to start IE, web pages take a *very* long time to load
- IE scrolling is also horridly slow
- Often times, using the search box makes the click sound, but does
nothing. No search results, and no new web pages will load. I have to try
and restart IE.
- Sometimes, IE appears to hang the entire system and I actually have to
hard reboot.
There are zillions of other problems I'm experiencing, but right now I'm a
bit frustrated.
Can anyone here give me an idea if later builds actually improved any of
this significantly?