David A. Spicer

If you know anyone that has a Vista OEM DVD that includes Ultimate (not a
restore DVD), use it to install Vista Ultimate with your HP OEM key. This
will install Vista without all the HP crap. Make sure you download and save
any computer specific drivers from the HP site first in case needed. You
might have to call the activation center to activate, but it's not a big
deal.
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<rmgalante@galaware.com> wrote in message
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>I have a brand new notebook with a dual core 2.2GHz processor, 2G of
> memory and a 160G hard drive. It's an HP Pavillion. I turn it on. It
> takes 45 seconds to display the login prompt. I login. It takes 2 to 3
> minutes to display the windows welcome center.
>
> I look at the system configuration and I have dozens of services and
> startup programs running. I tried to remove all the Norton Anti-virus
> services and programs. But it still takes 2 minutes to display the
> windows welcome center. But that means it was taking 60 seconds to
> load the Norton Anti-virus stuff.
>
> Also, the system is loading 970M of programs and data into memory.
> That is alot of stuff.
>
> So far my impression of this operating system is that it is too slow.
> My XP Pro system is far faster and it only has 1G of memory and a
> single processor.
>
> Also, my daughter just bought an Acer 5100 5674 system at Circuit
> City. It only has 1G of memory and a 1.6G dual core processor. It is
> running Vista Home Premium. It takes about 30 seconds to display the
> login prompt and 1.25 minutes to display the windows welcome center.
> It is not running Norton Anti-virus.
>
> So I spend all this money on serious hardware, and I am let down by
> the experience.
>