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Re: Vista Ultimate is slow
<rmgalante@galaware.com> wrote in message
news:1187475409.939519.270610@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>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.
>
As others have responded... uninstall Norton and download a free AV program
like AVG or Avast. You could probably benefit by scrubing some of the other
crapware that came with your PC. I'm running Ultimate on two laptops here,
one with 2GB RAM and one with 1.5GB RAM (this one) and do not experience the
same type of performance issues. My son is running Ultimate on an older Dell
XPS Gen 2 with 1GB RAM and Vista runs fine on his box. Big difference? All
my installs were clean installs, no crapware...
Good luck,
Lang
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