Re: Minimum HDD Space for Vista

Jim Howes wrote:

Tim wrote:
Bl**dy 'ell! 8.7GB on my Linux workstation gives me a massive suite of
applications. Presumably Vista on 15GB still gives you notepad and a few
games - oh and a web browser?

Not that disk space isn't cheap, but if it needs more on disk, presumably
it's going to be reading more into memory (=slower).

Nah, it loads it all at startup, which is why simply installing (but not
actually using) bloatware like office uses up all of your RAM. That way,
Microsoft software always 'runs faster' than something which loads when
you run
it. (Hence applications like the OpenOffice quickstarter, and the reason
why so many common utilities like to have system-tray icons holding any
number of large DLL's open).

This also explains why any windows system slowly evolves from a
fast-booting system to a depressed sloth after a while...

Yeah - I had to attand to SWMBO's laptop (Ubuntu and XP) - took me ages to
locate all of the startup crap in the registry (after I killed the startup
folder contents).

Log-in time is considerably improved - more so after turning off
the "Fischer-Price, My First Windows" look and putting everything back to
Classic.

MS are either in league with the devil or the RAM manufacturers :-O

Tim


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