Speeding up Vista?

[Guest]

Vista Ultimate on my dual-core 3.2GHz seems slower that XP Pro on my 1.0GHz
Pentium! What are the best things I can do to speed it up? How do I work out
what Vista is doing when it's grinding away? Every time I open the Task
Manager there's always only a few processes running above 0% CPU
utilization - and even those are only around 3%!

If it wasn't for client's using Vista I wouldn't have bothered. Seems to
give me nothing over XP except a bit headache and wiping out the value of my
new computer's hardware!

 

[Paul Smith]

How much RAM in the system?

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[Tie Various]

Vista Ultimate on my dual-core 3.2GHz seems slower that XP Pro on my

1.0GHz Pentium!

LOL how true.. vista is too slow, and even if you do several tricks to
optimize it, vista will still be slower that your XP on that old hardware.

 

[UnswoleLilDude]

This might help a little.
http://www.maximumpcguides.com/speedup-windows-vista-without-losing-functionality/

 

[Charlie42]

Lagt inn: 31. oktober 2007 21:23
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Vista Ultimate on my dual-core 3.2GHz seems slower that XP Pro on my
1.0GHz Pentium! What are the best things I can do to speed it up?

Add more memory.

How do I work out what Vista is doing when it's grinding away? Every
time I open the Task Manager there's always only a few processes running
above 0% CPU utilization - and even those are only around 3%!

It's probably the indexing service that runs in the background. You can
disable it in services.msc if you really have to. Also, there is the
possibility of malware. Make sure your computer is secured, and runs
regular virus scans.

Charlie42

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate x86 on a Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
Northwood system and its very fast.

Other components:
2.6 GB of RAM
nVidia Geforce FX 5200 128 MB AGP

 

[Guest]

4Mb,

How much RAM in the system?

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Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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[Daniel]

Why repeat what is already stated, that is not any help.

Go back to your virus writing on your LINSUX box
and leave us alone.

Daniel

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Thats far from enough. Just kidding. Was this an upgrade or clean
installation of Vista?

 

[Charlie Tame]

Vista Ultimate on my dual-core 3.2GHz seems slower that XP Pro on my
1.0GHz Pentium! What are the best things I can do to speed it up? How do
I work out what Vista is doing when it's grinding away? Every time I
open the Task Manager there's always only a few processes running above
0% CPU utilization - and even those are only around 3%!

If it wasn't for client's using Vista I wouldn't have bothered. Seems to
give me nothing over XP except a bit headache and wiping out the value
of my new computer's hardware!

What worked for me...

Right click on drive icon(s) select properties.

Uncheck box "Index this drive blah blah"

Made a huge difference to startup and those periods where you get
slowdowns and the spinning bust sign, you have to wonder what their idea
of "Multi Tasking" really is.

Leaving it running made no difference to searching, ran for 3 weeks and
still couldn't find anything

Let us know if this helps - some say it does but more evidence is always
helpful.

 

[Guest]

Clean install (was preinstalled).

Thats far from enough. Just kidding. Was this an upgrade or clean
installation of Vista?
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[Charlie Tame]

Clean install (was preinstalled).

Debbie, Vista "Will" be slower than XP on the same hardware because it
has more layers of software than XP, plus it is a lot bigger and the
simple calculation is the more "Bytes" that have to go through the CPU
the longer that process takes. There are supposed to be benefits to this
but the user won't see them directly. If you have a 64 bit machine then
Vista 64 should eventually become faster than XP 32 or Vista 32 on the
same machine but only with true 63 bit software. Of course there will be
"Some" combinations of software and hardware which with default BIOS
setting etc will run Vista a bit faster (Or rather run XP slower than
they could).

Use Thunderbird instead of Windows mail, Firefox instead of IE and you
may see improvements there, and try turning off that drive "Indexing"
and let us know if you see any improvements, there's nothing really
"Wrong" with Vista it is a combination of things making it seem slow.