Rohid

I recently upgraded my new Dell machine to Vista and I have not noticed
any great drop in desktop performance (opening My Computer Control panel
Etc). I have however noticed a significant drop in loading times over
XP. In XP some of my Software took 15 seconds to load, but in Vista
that time is now upwards of 45-60 seconds. This is very annoying, as My
machine is new and quite high spec (5.3 on the Vista Index Score).

Intel Core Duo e6400 2.1 Gz Processors
2gb Ram
NVidia 7900gx 256 graphics
2 x 150Gb hard drives in Raid 0

I do agree with other postings that vista is very hungry when it comes
to memory and hard drive usage. I would suggest you download a memory
manager ( there are loads of free ones on the web), and this will tell
you your Ram usage at any given time. You will need at least 2gb of ram
if you intend to use your machine for any sort of medium graphics use(
games etc)
Running Vista alone on my machine with no major programmes running
(only the usual virus protection Etc) uses about 800Mb Ram, so you will
not have a lot left to run anything major. Your machine therefore is
using the Page file (Swap File) on the hard drive a lot, and this will
make it very slow indeed.
You will also definitely need a much bigger hard drive as 20gb is
nowhere near enough to give you a reasonable performance. A memory
upgrade on its own will not work very well without a bigger hard drive
also (80gb is reasonable nowadays).

In time I hope Microsoft will sort the slow loading problem, but once
loaded everything runs very well with very few, if any, problems

Hope this helps

Deco1


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I do agree with other postings that vista is very hungry when it comes
to memory and hard drive usage. I would suggest you download a memory
manager ( there are loads of free ones on the web), and this will tell
you your Ram usage at any given time.

I recommend /never/ using a so-called "memory manager". First of all,
Windows always will try to use as much memory as it can. When you have
sufficient RAM (and 2G is good enough for many uses), if you see in some
report (such as Task Manager) that you have very little "free" memory, that
is a /good/ thing. If some utility creates actual free memory, it robs
Windows of its ability to use memory efficiently. See:

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

for an excellent description of how Windows uses memory.

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first of all u did the right thing to upgrade your RAM to 1 gb but to
run WINDOWS VISTA with full functionality ,you must have atleast a
processor of 2.0 Ghz


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Try these:

http://windowsfixup.com/2009/03/five...a-performance/

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:51:02 -0700, socrd
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Try these:

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Worthless

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