How to speed up Windows Vista: official and unofficial tips

[Nick VR4]

For any one using Vista

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/01/30/speed_up_vista_tips/

[ANTHONY]

cheers Nick i shall try some of those.

[Nice But]

I would have said downgrade to XP........./pan

[Wodjno]

I would have said downgrade to XP........./pan

/Hmmm I think you mean Upgrade :D

Windows 95 would be better /yes

Or a ZX81 with all of its 1k of memory :)

[Nice But]

Or a ZX81 with all of its 1k of memory :)

Or if your posh a ZX spectrum :thinking:

[ANTHONY]

life without a computer it was so much easy and more jobs around not all outsourced

[Wodjno]

Or if your posh a ZX spectrum :thinking:

Or if your nearly posh ? Add the 16k ram pack that used half of its own memory to be able to work :pimp2:

[Nice But]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Oh what fun/memories....... 10 mins and then the batteries ran out on the tape recorder loading the programme........

Used to love Manic Miner/pan /pan

[Wodjno]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Oh what fun/memories....... 10 mins and then the batteries ran out on the tape recorder loading the programme........

Used to love Manic Miner/pan /pan

Du du du du dudu dur, dudu dur, dudu dur ! Du du du du dudu dur, dudu dur durrrr :speechles

[Nice But]

/haz /haz /lol /lol /lol

[ANTHONY]

Du du du du dudu dur, dudu dur, dudu dur ! Du du du du dudu dur, dudu dur durrrr :speechlesyou'v lost me on that one

[Nice But]

it was the irritating music from the Manic miner......:afro:

[bradc]

I've seen vista on about 50 machines, and the only conclusion I've come to is that in order for it to run correctly you need 4 rather powerful/quick parts.

Core 2 Duo - at least 2ghz
2gb ram, preferably 4gb
10000rpm hard drive
nvidia 8600 series graphics card or higher


It runs like a piece of crap on anything else. The only machine that I've been happy with it's performance on is my home machine which just happens to have a Core 2 Extreme QX6800 at 3.5ghz, 4gb ddr2-800 ram, 2x 15k SAS drives in Raid 0 and a pair of 8600GS's in SLI, and on that Vista isn't a bad OS at all. But on anything less grunty, it's kind of crap

[Nice But]

Brad

I agree, I got my youngest a celeron laptop last year with Vista....... now with XP much better.

that's why I'm still running XP on all my computers.

[Pete M]

What is more to the point is that XP doesn't have all the DRM (Digital Rights Management) stuff. Very good reason for me to avoid Vista at all cost.

[d i c k i e s]

stick with xp untill all bugs are sorted... id say another year or so.

i maybe be heading towards what brad is running. so vista maybe on the list?

[GroundControl]

Du du du du dudu dur, dudu dur, dudu dur ! Du du du du dudu dur, dudu dur durrrr :speechles

It's Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" :scholar:

[matsondawson]

Funny, I run Vista 64 Ultimate and find it awesomely fast, compared to the previous XP install I had on my computer.

Of course I have 4gigs of ram, Quad Core, and a mega duper video card.

I think if you want an O/S that takes advantage of expensive HW vista is it, otherwise staying with XP is probably better.

[bradc]

Matson, yeah if you throw a lot of hardware at it you will get good results :)

[matsondawson]

Matson, yeah if you throw a lot of hardware at it you will get good results :)


Oh, yeh... didn't see your post, ya nerd! :P

(yeh yeh I know, I can talk :inquisiti )

[bradc]

bet you don't have 2 15k SAS drives though :)

[matsondawson]

bet you don't have 2 15k SAS drives though :)

Nope, I can't stand the noise and raids always seem to die on me.
I have a Raptor 150gig atm, but am craving me some SSD's.

I do have a 30" Widescreen LCD, and water cooling though :)

Heh, pissing contest over computer bits... It's amazing I can run a VR4 and a computer at the same time.

[Paul Beazer]

Water cooling? That always strikes me as just a bit risky......

[matsondawson]

Water cooling? That always strikes me as just a bit risky......

I don't think it'll pop the way it's set up. And anyway if it does, it's just an opportunity to upgrade. Just like when something dies in the car.

[bradc]

I actually find them very quiet when they are just sitting there, but if I'm trashing them, they sound like old Quantum Bigfoots or other old Quantum drives crossed with a 5.25" floppy, you can hear them from quite some distance away :)

I do prefer my raptor though, much much quieter.