Re: Windows Vista is slooooowww
- From: "NoNamer" <grug2005@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 May 2006 06:48:41 -0700
Homey wrote:
I installed Windows Vista build 5308 on a P4 2.53Ghz with 512megs ram and an
80 Gig Hdd
The install took an hour
It runs painfully slow.
You must have a very hi end video card with lots of ram.
I've only worked with it for an hour or so.
On second boot the hard drive would not stop chattering, I opened task
manager to see if defrag was running not much running but the drive went on
and on till I had to shut down.
Third boot it seemed better.
It looks different upfront the menus are all a different style but it looks
like the same old Windows XP when you get in to it.One new thing I have
noticed is that it has TCPIP v6 and the configuration fields are long with
no dots.
I read that they are going to have (6) six different versions of Vista
Needless to say it was a letdown no big earth shattering improvements.
John
That's an older build... beta 2 is out now.
One problem you may be having is that the beta ships with a lot of
services turned *on* by default... and this consumes an awful lot of
RAM. The default install of beta 2 consumed more than 600MB! of RAM
before I turned off unneeded services such as Tablet Handwriting
recognition (i wasn't on a tablet)... got the RAM usage down almost by
half.
If you 'only' had 512MB, then you'd be paging to disk a lot - which
*would* be very slow.
If you don't have a vista ready video card - the interface is not going
to look nearly as good as Aero - which looks and works absolutely
fantastic. I'm loving it - very hard to go back to XP now at work
lol.
Vista has tons of improvements that you won't find at first glance.
The advanced firewall settings are *awesome*. I was playing around
with it and decided to block *all* outgoing connections - and then my
network wouldn't work for some reason - and I later found out I was
blocking even low level DHCP requests! It really worked well. Had to
reenable defaults... I'll play around with it more but security seems
drastically improved. I think the firewall alone is worth the price of
upgrade.
DX 10 is going to be killer, as well as the all new networking stack
(much faster), all new audio stack (lower latencies, per app. volume,
etc.), and just a ton more stuff to list.
After listening to all the pundits, I was really expecting Vista to be
a letdown. Then I finally installed Beta 2 (hadn't tried the earlier
betas), and I was really WOWed.
Haven't found any major problems *yet*, but I have found a few very
minor rendering problems in Office 2007 (also beta 2).
IE7 has a lot of improved security features - I would love for someone
to list down some malware / spyware sites that I could direct IE7 to
test its security - but so far nobody has been able to give me any
sites that can infect Vista through IE7. Lots of claims, but no proof
- yet.
Tons of new stuff. I love chess titans myself :)
I was about to upgrade my mac mini to the new intel mac - but after
seeing vista, I am thinking of just getting Vista capable machines
now... less expensive than mac hardware anyways...
Media Player 11 rox also.
Ok I'm going to end this... I could go on with all the neat cool stuff
- perhaps I need to start a blog heh.
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