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Re: Pathetic Vista download performance Yes. I turned off everythink I could think off, including AV but it is still
useless. I'm hoping that someone has a better Vista knowledge than I,
otherwise Vista is no good to me at all. I've gone back to XP for the time
being.
"Robert Moir" wrote:
> Spirefm wrote:
> > I ran a comparison last night between XP and Vista downloading the
> > same file with the same .exe file and the same settings. XP ran at
> > 50KB/s and Vista at 8KB/s. I repeated the test with the same result.
> > I suspect its because of all the extra security. It makes Vista
> > unuseable for me so I'll have to investigate further. Apart from
> > that, Vista seems fine. Colin
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> I really don't think the extra security will affect download performance
> like that, but I do agree that network performance does seem slower than in
> XP. If it were a security issue, I would expect it to take longer to start
> an operation (due to negociation of various security layers, etc) but then
> to perform fine once the operation had commenced.
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