system running slowly in general

Here's the situation: I recently purchased a new Lenovo N200 laptop for
college. this computer has a core 2 duo processor and a gig of RAM. it's
running sluggishly for having these specs, taking upwards of a half a minute
to open any window or program. I tried removing start-up programs, running
disk cleanup, doing disk defragmentations, and removing programs that i wont
use. My sidebar gadget that gauges my ram use still sits constantly at above
60% and the computer is slow as ever. I have called Lonovo tech support and
they said that the problem wasnt the computer; the problem was that vista is
a slow operating system and if i were running XP my computer would be flying.
Am i being jerked around by Lenovo or are other people having this problem?
Please give suggestions, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Open Device Manager (its in the Control Panel) and then
right-click on your hard drive (under Disk Drives). Click
on "Policies" and make sure there are check marks next to
"Optimize for Performance", "Enable write caching on
the disk", and "Enable advanced performance", then click OK.

You might also consider installing another 1GB of RAM.
Visit: http://www.crucial.com/index.aspx?&pid=1316453
and click on the Crucial Memory Advisor Tool.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"DANtheMAN" wrote:

Here's the situation: I recently purchased a new Lenovo N200 laptop for
college. this computer has a core 2 duo processor and a gig of RAM. it's
running sluggishly for having these specs, taking upwards of a half a minute
to open any window or program. I tried removing start-up programs, running
disk cleanup, doing disk defragmentations, and removing programs that i wont
use. My sidebar gadget that gauges my ram use still sits constantly at above
60% and the computer is slow as ever. I have called Lonovo tech support and
they said that the problem wasnt the computer; the problem was that vista is
a slow operating system and if i were running XP my computer would be flying.
Am i being jerked around by Lenovo or are other people having this problem?
Please give suggestions, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

DANtheMAN [Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:00:01 -0700] wrote:

>Here's the situation: I recently purchased a new Lenovo N200 laptop for
>college. this computer has a core 2 duo processor and a gig of RAM. it's
>running sluggishly for having these specs, taking upwards of a half a minute
>to open any window or program. I tried removing start-up programs, running
>disk cleanup, doing disk defragmentations, and removing programs that i wont
>use. My sidebar gadget that gauges my ram use still sits constantly at above
>60% and the computer is slow as ever. I have called Lonovo tech support and
>they said that the problem wasnt the computer; the problem was that vista is
>a slow operating system and if i were running XP my computer would be flying.
>Am i being jerked around by Lenovo or are other people having this problem?
>Please give suggestions, any help would be appreciated.
>Thanks!

Are you running anti-virus software on your laptop?
If so, turn it off completely and check whether that makes a difference
in speed.

Marco