Vista - slowww internet ?

[monaco]

Hi

My wife has just pick-up a new but basic spec laptop for office use with Vista installed, I set it up for our home wifi connection last night and the internet speeds seem way slower than when I last used it with my high spec HP laptop ( which is now dead )

would the added security features of Vista slow the download/refresh speeds of the net ? or am I missing something when I simply set-up a new connection and stuck in the password ?

Any Vista experienced bods out there having problems ? or is it just a slow laptop ? it is extreemly slow at doing most things in Vista !!!! There is Nothing it does that you would call instant, it this correct ???

Cheers

[jamieboy]

Either it's just a slow laptop or something's not configured right. I dual-boot my old Vaio between XP and Vista - Vista takes longer to get properly started, but once it's running I'd be hard pressed to notice any difference between the two in terms of actual use, e.g. running office apps, browsing the internet, etc.

[Patrick's Dad]

Memory.
I've heard that you'll need at least 1Gb of RAM for a decent level of performance for Vista

[Scraggles]

got a company laptop, it came with 256m ram and is supposed to be decent spec, had another 512mb installed as it kept crashing and seems ok, so a basic laptop might only have 256mb or less, xp just about maanages on 256, vista will be very very slow, but thenthe main priority was for a cheap laptop and not one that works well ?

one of the many pitfalls of installing a resource hungry OS on a resource poor laptop