Vista - Vista problem- running way to slow

Hi there, in the last couple of days ive upgraded from xp to vista home premium 64bit. It is running way slower than it should, it takes me around 5 mins to boot (no kidding at least 5 mins). To install programs or games takes ages, Age of conan took almost 2 hours to install, bioshock took almost 40 mins. While running anygame ive installed ( AOC and bioshock) i get around 5-10fps. Im running: q6600 on a p35-dq6 8gig ddr2 1066 ozc plat. Asus 8800gt i have a raptor 140gb 10krpm sata HD no other hardware installed. ive read up on some posts and dissabled windows indexing and all my antispyware and antivrus and no improvments whatsoever. when i first installed vista i didnt install my mobo disk and it asked me to download some intel driver which i did, and ive got sp1 (came on my vista dvd) and down all the windows updates that were avialable. I have recently installed all the drivers off my mobo cd and that did nothing to speed me up. ive also installed latest nvidia 64bit drivers from thier site. Downloading a updated "motherboard_driver_chipset_intel.exe" from gigabyte, so fingers crossed, i am skeptical though. Any thoughts to bring me up to speed?

Did you upgrade an XP install or did you do a clean install of Vista? Did you patch to SP1 or did you let Vista patch itself? When during this process did you dl and install your chipset drivers?

Can you list all your anti-spyware and anti-virus apps? It would also help a lot to know everything you've disabled... and what guide were you following?

It sounds like you disabled some service that you shouldn't have. How new is this install?

If you have to re-install, and you might, then follow this path. Disconnect from the internet; install Vista; patch to SP1; install chipset drivers; install graphics drivers; install sound drivers. At this point you can connect again and use the Automatic Update feature to get the rest of your security updates, but I would avoid letting Windows udpate any chipset or graphics drivers.

... but first lets try and fix the current install?

I did a clean install of vista, no upgrade. I didnt intall a sp1, my vista cd said it was Vista with sp1, so i assumed it would install it as it installs vista? As far as spyware and virus programs i have windows live oncare, thats all. as far as guides i didnt follow a specific guide, i just googled windows vista slow and some forums suggested (from others posting thier problems) that indexing slows down the pc and the virus and spyware does, so i turned them off. The chipset drivers were prompted to install on my very first boot by windows. The install is about 2 days old.

With that type of system you shouldnt need to disable anything to speed up your system. There must be something else that is causing the system to run this slow. Possible bad hardware like a hard drive would cause that to read slowly. Run the Memory Diagostic Tool that is intergrated into Vista in the Admin Tools to see if any of the sticks reflect bad. If you did a clean install of Vista with those components and went to the manufactures website for the current drivers you should be zooming right now.

flashed my bios to a newer version and that fixed the problem, am zooming along just fine now and loving vista coming from xp EDIT: Thanks for the help to guys

Hi Sam, and welcome to Vista Forums.

I'm happy to hear that the updated BIOS seems to have done the trick for you. You might also try some of these options to see how much they can help you to.

Speed Up the Performance of Vista

Hope this helps,
Shawn