I'm finding this OS really sluggish compared to XP Home Edition

What am I doing wrong? What have I missed? just double clicking on a icon seams to take ages to draw on screen
Do I need to switch things off?
I'm not impressed.

ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe
Pentium D 945 LGA775 3.4 Ghz
4 GB DDR2

.Joe

Thanks for the info.
I already disabled Aero and set the performance as I had done in XP.
I'm more interested in Audio/Midi use than visual gadgets.
I'm booting in XP for music work at the moment ahead of either 64 bit asio drivers from Tascam or changing to a Focusrite audio interface which already has Vista 64 bit drivers. Vista is surely the way forward for me as I don't want to go down the Mac route.

Regards

Ray

Originally Posted by roy69

If your vista is new to your computer then it will be slow for a bit. Indexing and other programs running in the background will make it slower. You will have updates downloading as well.

Yes updates downloading (never-ending)
Just as well I have this second PC to keep me in touch with the world while I get going with Vista on the other.

Cheers

OK I'm finally getting some fun with this Vista thing following downloading all the updates. If I can just get the external hardware issues fixed I'll go totally Vista.

Cheers

roy is correct and you will notice things speeding up and Vista learning from you.

since Sp1 Vista 64bit for me has been heaps snappier especially my Video editing software...

Originally Posted by Clevo

roy is correct and you will notice things speeding up and Vista learning from you.

since Sp1 Vista 64bit for me has been heaps snappier especially my Video editing software...

I've download Sp 1 but I've been hanging back from installing preferring to allow a settling down period.

Originally Posted by rayinstirling

I'm finding this OS really sluggish compared to XP Home Edition

What am I doing wrong? What have I missed? just double clicking on a icon seams to take ages to draw on screen
Do I need to switch things off?
I'm not impressed.

ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe
Pentium D 945 LGA775 3.4 Ghz
4 GB DDR2

Well its true the vista might take time before it gradually shows improvments in your system. What antivirus have you installed if any? Why dont you try disabling the AERO and if it things speed up, just enable aero again...im sure it should work fine...

Thanks for the interest bushako,
Vista is now working faster and more stable but... now comes the really important bit for me! Working with Cubase 4.1 and I'm not finding it easy to get any noises from my external firewire sound card. I just keep tweaking and rebooting.