Re: Vista




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"Adrian" <toomany2cvs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The Todal (deadmailbox@xxxxxxxx) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

A colleague of mine has bought a new Dell laptop, bottom of the range
model, but with Windows Vista. It runs pathetically slowly. I'm not
very familiar with Vista, and I'm tempted to advise her to demand a
refund or to format the hard disk and install XP.

Is there a setting in Vista, somewhere, to tell it to move into a
higher gear and behave exactly like XP?

Uninstall Vista and install XP - the Vista licence will cover it.

Or, more easily, put more memory in. 1GB minimum for Vista.

but 2Gb is better.


Laptops take "sodimm" memory chips and after a bit of googling I'm afraid 2
gig do not yet exist in this format also if the laptop is that cheap the
memory may well be soldered in as in some Packard Bell laptops,sadly people
do not tend to think of such things when being "geed up" by a sales
person..also as an aside I wouldn't touch "Dell" with a bargepole as they
are solely "online" with no physical stores/shops to be able to take any
problems to,there have been many complains about the service and pc's that
they sell..
Tdp..


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