New computers are worthless upon arrival because of all the "freeware" and
"trial ware" that the manufacturers install upon them.
If you were to get the machine stripped bare of all of this, you would see
what the actual capabilities of your machine (using Vista) are. Then, as you
load each individual item, you would see the impact that it has on the
computer and operating system.
I "always" load clean. The initial boot is fast beyond my expectations. Then
I install my antivirus. System slows down. Then I install some anti-spyware
programs. System slows down more.
After about three hours of installing and rebooting - the initial lightning
bolt now takes 2 1/2 minutes to reach the desktop.
But because your computer came with all of this crapware already installed -
you were not privileged to see the individual slow downs that each
successive application install adds to the boot time.
So, start fresh. Get rid of everything. Install Vista and the necessary
drivers. Then, make an image of your system (you do use TrueImage, don't
you). Install your antivirus of choice. Reboot a couple of times. How is the
boot time? Not happy? Revert back to your image and install a different
antivirus program.
It's all trial and error.
Many have found that there are some antivirus programs that are just more
efficient than others. These include Avast and NOD32.
Most have found that anything from Symantec or McAfee bring your computer to
it's knees. The same goes for anti-spyware programs. Some are good, and slow
the machine. Some are good, and don't slow the machine much at all.
But if you blindly stay with what was delivered on your computer, you will
never know!
--
Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
"Tigger" <Tigger@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Like many people I've been stunned by how slow my Vista machine is. I have
> an
> emachines 6805 running Windows XP Home, talking to my wireless Dlink
> router
> DI-604. When I go to the CNET Bandwidth measurement page, I see about 2000
> kbps for my Windows XP machine (3 years old, Opteron processor in that
> thing).
>
> The link for the bandwidth tester is
> http://webservices.cnet.com/Bandwidth/
>
> I have Comcast cable by the way.
>
> So I try the same thing with my brand-new Lenovo R61 Core 2 Duo 4MB cache,
> 2
> GB ram machine... and I get 56.8 kbps!! That's like a dial-up modem. This
> is
> PATHETIC! Microsoft you really screwed up. If this isn't fixed in a jiffy
> this will be my last Windows machine for personal use! I have Windows
> Vista
> Basic, and almost everything else is out of the box.
>
> I tried futzing around with "netsh interface tcp" with advice found using
> Google searches, setting auto-tuning to "disabled" and to
> "highlyrestricted"... no help there. I tried uninstalling Norton/Semantec
> crapola that came with the machine, and turning off the phishing filter...
> no
> help there. But -- and this is the real important point -- ordinary people
> should NOT have to futz around like this with your flagship Microsoft
> product. You are BEGGING the world to stop buying your software. I know
> that's how I feel, really really angry that I've already wasted half a day
> tweaking a new computer that is basically worthless on arrival.