"Pharoah" <rlj1965_nospamplease@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "ScoobieMan" <ScoobieMan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I just got a new laptop that is vastly superior in hardware to the laptop
>>it
>> replaces. It is loaded with Vista Ultimate and the laptop it replaces is
>> loaded with XP Pro.
>>
>> I have reloaded Vista Ultimate on the new laptop to get a fresh install
>> without bloatware.
>>
>> The Vista Ultimate laptop is much slower Internet browsing with constant
>> time outs with Firefox and with Thunderbird email. I am having to
>> refresh
>> pages almost every other time I got to another page. The XP machine
>> blows
>> this machine away as far as surfing is concerned.
>>
>> What could possibly be the problem?
>
> The problem is just that Vista is slower than XP
*** Vista does require more RAM however on a properly configured machine it
is faster then XP for the vast majority of tasks.
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>in almost every way and is full of crappy bloated code. You should be using
>XP SP3
*** XP SP3 is still in beta. The final version is expected sometime in the
first half of 2008.
ScoobieMan
See:
How to Speed Up the Performance of Vista
Speed Up the Performance of Vista
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