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Name: GoStephen Date: September 7, 2008 at 03:53:13 Pacific OS: vista ultimate CPU/Ram: intel quad core q6600@2.4
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Hi,
I'm new to vista, a little dissappointed, its very slow lol. I changed a lot of settings, eg turned off the annoying security settings etc. I saw this vista rating which looks cool and I have a rating of 5.6 The only things that I wasnt given a 5.9 for wwere, my RAM, (yet its 4gb 800mz) and my primary hard disk, these both got a rating of 5.6. (i have a sata raptor drive)
Just wondering, on my system spec, is it natural for vista to still be laggy etc? Even after a fresh install. Im considering either making an edited performance edition see how that goes, or go back to xp SP3 performance edition lol.
Name: Trent M Date: September 7, 2008 at 05:33:22 Pacific
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You a a fantastic computer for running Vista, but it may be slow still. Microsoft determined that bugs in Vista are still causing it to be slow. Thats probably your problem. This is just my opinon, but I think people should stay away from Vista until MS gets more bugs out, especially performance bugs.
Have you installed Service Pack 1 yet?
Hope this helps,
-Trent
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Response Number 2
Name: Sabertooth Date: September 7, 2008 at 15:37:34 Pacific
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Vista is not for everyone.
There are tons of folks predisposed to not liking it & if you are one of those, you may want to stick with XP. You get your level of comfort & you also save yourself the likely dissatisfaction.
Name: AskJuba (by slogica) Date: September 16, 2008 at 10:50:28 Pacific
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Have you checked the indexing and disableing it? I have done this to all my clients/friends and they are happy with Vista, let me know how I can help you, take care.
AskJuba
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Response Number 4
Name: GoStephen Date: September 25, 2008 at 01:07:45 Pacific
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Ended up installing vista x64 SP1 performance edition, thanks for your help, runs lightning quick now though
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Response Number 5
Name: Trent M Date: September 25, 2008 at 17:16:26 Pacific
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I've never heard of performance edition. Is it optimized for lower CPU/RAM usage?
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Response Number 6
Name: GoStephen Date: September 27, 2008 at 10:35:47 Pacific
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Yeah it is pretty much, its an edited version that someone made. Normal vista ultimate wont work well for me but this 1 does. Has a lot of the crap taken out to make it perform better, tweaks all ready done etc. Works quite good
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Response Number 7
Name: Trent M Date: September 27, 2008 at 14:28:44 Pacific
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