Basically when comparing Vista and XP, Vista is the tortoise and XP is the hare when it comes to most if not all things. Vista is just slower all the way around at everything. Hopefully with updates that will all improve.

Originally Posted by Arteekay

My 20 or so Vista installs have all been excellent, the users have loved it and threatened to quit if they lose their new toy.

My personal experience is that Vista is as fast as XP at most things, and much faster than XP in quite a few areas as well.

Are you able to state where you find Vista to be much faster than XP so that I can check it out on my system. My experience is the opposite of yours with just about everything, as far as I can, see running slower on Vista. And this is with Vista running on better/faster hardware than my standalone XP installation or using dual boot.

@Payne747: I had this problem and it was driving me insane. Google came up with almost 1 million hits on the same problem (with no solutions).

In my case, everything worked fine, and then, all of a sudden, copy, move, rename, and delete operations started taking forever. In my case, the problem was Windows Search. I moved my index to another drive, and then later, changed the drive for a larger one. Of course, I completely forgot about the index. Every time that Vista performs a file operation, it tries to update the search index, trying over and over again to start the Windows Search service, until it finally times out. That is what takes so long.

Check your Windows Search service. If it is set to automatic start, but isn't started, that is likely your problem. Try disabling it, and then perform a copy or whatever. If it works properly, then you have found your problem. There are various resolutions all over the Web.

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