Vista - How slow?
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Just setup a new machine. Its got a P4 3.5mhz processor, 1gb of ram and 800 gb hdd.
Why on earth is it soooo slow to load up Vista? A similar XP machine (P4 3ghz, 1gb RAM) loads up in half the time.
Both have op system, firewall, virus checker and that's it!
I remember my 486 loading windows 3.1 faster than this back in the early 1990s...
Why on earth is it soooo slow to load up Vista? A similar XP machine (P4 3ghz, 1gb RAM) loads up in half the time.
Both have op system, firewall, virus checker and that's it!
I remember my 486 loading windows 3.1 faster than this back in the early 1990s...
mcflurry said:
Just setup a new machine. Its got a P4 3.5mhz processor, 1gb of ram and 800 gb hdd.
Why on earth is it soooo slow to load up Vista? A similar XP machine (P4 3ghz, 1gb RAM) loads up in half the time.
Both have op system, firewall, virus checker and that's it!
I remember my 486 loading windows 3.1 faster than this back in the early 1990s...
Why on earth is it soooo slow to load up Vista? A similar XP machine (P4 3ghz, 1gb RAM) loads up in half the time.
Both have op system, firewall, virus checker and that's it!
I remember my 486 loading windows 3.1 faster than this back in the early 1990s...
Boot is definatly slower than vista, but I find I have to boot up far less frequently. Take advantage of sleep/hibernate functions like mac users have been doing for years. Couple it with a 1 or 2 gig USB2 memory stick and turn on readyboost - far better, and you'll notice it more on a slowish system liek yours. The returns decrease as the basic system speed increases.
I can confirm that 32-bit Vista on 'regular' P4 class hardware is shite. It's sluggish as hell and in my experience unstable. Back to XP every time. This is particularly true for laptops which tend to have single core CPUs, weak graphics chipsets and slow hard disk systems.
However take the 64-bit edition and put it on workstation-class certified hardware with multiple cores, bags of RAM and a decent graphics card, and IMHO it's absolutely superb. Extremely fast to use and rock solid. My main desktop has been built with x64 Ultimate since the day it RTM'd and it hasn't missed a beat.
However take the 64-bit edition and put it on workstation-class certified hardware with multiple cores, bags of RAM and a decent graphics card, and IMHO it's absolutely superb. Extremely fast to use and rock solid. My main desktop has been built with x64 Ultimate since the day it RTM'd and it hasn't missed a beat.
sheets tabuer said:
Try running it on those 1.5ghz laptops pc world is banging out recently, 15 minute boot is the longest I've had
Think that's a bit of a pointless stat, though - there's plainly something wrong there. My three-year-old Vaio with a 1.7GHz Centrino typically boots Vista in between a minute and a minute and a half - a good bit slower than it boots XP, but not ridiculous.
jamieboy said:
sheets tabuer said:
Try running it on those 1.5ghz laptops pc world is banging out recently, 15 minute boot is the longest I've had
Think that's a bit of a pointless stat, though - there's plainly something wrong there. My three-year-old Vaio with a 1.7GHz Centrino typically boots Vista in between a minute and a minute and a half - a good bit slower than it boots XP, but not ridiculous.
That was booting starting office and getting outlook to screen with full japanese language pack, I kid you not it was a new lappy
sheets tabuer said:
jamieboy said:
sheets tabuer said:
Try running it on those 1.5ghz laptops pc world is banging out recently, 15 minute boot is the longest I've had
Think that's a bit of a pointless stat, though - there's plainly something wrong there. My three-year-old Vaio with a 1.7GHz Centrino typically boots Vista in between a minute and a minute and a half - a good bit slower than it boots XP, but not ridiculous.
That was booting starting office and getting outlook to screen with full japanese language pack, I kid you not it was a new lappy
[quote=bobthemonkeyTake advantage of sleep/hibernate functions like mac users have been doing for years.[/quote]
PC users have had hibernate since Windows 2000. It is however not turned on by default, but a quick trip though Control Panel > Power > Hibernate will get it going; one thing to keep in mind is that it requires all drivers to be hibernate compliant... if they aren't it won't appear.
XP's default behaviour on a laptop when you close the lid is to suspend (S3 state) and it should appear as a menu item on a desktop's shutdown thingie.
The only thing Mac's have been doing is both sleeping and hibernating (writing memory state to a file) at the same time so if the power fails your still safe, I assume Vista is now doing this?
PC users have had hibernate since Windows 2000. It is however not turned on by default, but a quick trip though Control Panel > Power > Hibernate will get it going; one thing to keep in mind is that it requires all drivers to be hibernate compliant... if they aren't it won't appear.
XP's default behaviour on a laptop when you close the lid is to suspend (S3 state) and it should appear as a menu item on a desktop's shutdown thingie.
The only thing Mac's have been doing is both sleeping and hibernating (writing memory state to a file) at the same time so if the power fails your still safe, I assume Vista is now doing this?
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