Vista - Advance tools/performance issue: warning

P4 2.8ghz HT, 1.5gb, 160gb, Ati 9550 256mb agp 8x.

I open up Advanced tools and notice below Performance issues that it
displayed a warning icon with message Performance can be improved by changing
visual settings. View details. I look at the details and a window pop up with
a message:

Adjust visual setting to improve peformance

The current visual setting might not result in the best computer peformance.
To improve perforamnce, you cay try closing some windows, turning off window
transparency, lowering the computer resolution, or changing your color scheme
to Window Vista Basic. it has button: Help, remove from list, ok

so i look at the performance details event log and saw warning icons with
information about Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource
contention. reason: Graphic subsystem resources are over-utilized. Is Ati
Radeon 9550 256mb AGP 8x not enough?

Althought i don't see any performance issue on my computer at all no slow
down. I also turn off the transparency and still giving me the warning in the
advanced tools.

If you are happy with the way your computer is operating don't worry about
it would be my advice. Your PC would run faster without all the bells and
whistles as would any other PC mine says the same (without the specific
warning about heavy resource contention) and I have a Geforce 8800GTX.


"GT" <GT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AF65B081-9DB4-4579-9A1E-F50086B5D1FF@microsoft.com...
> P4 2.8ghz HT, 1.5gb, 160gb, Ati 9550 256mb agp 8x.
>
> I open up Advanced tools and notice below Performance issues that it
> displayed a warning icon with message Performance can be improved by
> changing
> visual settings. View details. I look at the details and a window pop up
> with
> a message:
>
> Adjust visual setting to improve peformance
>
> The current visual setting might not result in the best computer
> peformance.
> To improve perforamnce, you cay try closing some windows, turning off
> window
> transparency, lowering the computer resolution, or changing your color
> scheme
> to Window Vista Basic. it has button: Help, remove from list, ok
>
> so i look at the performance details event log and saw warning icons with
> information about Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource
> contention. reason: Graphic subsystem resources are over-utilized. Is Ati
> Radeon 9550 256mb AGP 8x not enough?
>
> Althought i don't see any performance issue on my computer at all no slow
> down. I also turn off the transparency and still giving me the warning in
> the
> advanced tools.
>
>
>

I thought that Vista turn off the transparency and special effect
automatically when it find that the computer performance is low.

"SteveW" wrote:

> If you are happy with the way your computer is operating don't worry about
> it would be my advice. Your PC would run faster without all the bells and
> whistles as would any other PC mine says the same (without the specific
> warning about heavy resource contention) and I have a Geforce 8800GTX.
>
>
> "GT" <GT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AF65B081-9DB4-4579-9A1E-F50086B5D1FF@microsoft.com...
> > P4 2.8ghz HT, 1.5gb, 160gb, Ati 9550 256mb agp 8x.
> >
> > I open up Advanced tools and notice below Performance issues that it
> > displayed a warning icon with message Performance can be improved by
> > changing
> > visual settings. View details. I look at the details and a window pop up
> > with
> > a message:
> >
> > Adjust visual setting to improve peformance
> >
> > The current visual setting might not result in the best computer
> > peformance.
> > To improve perforamnce, you cay try closing some windows, turning off
> > window
> > transparency, lowering the computer resolution, or changing your color
> > scheme
> > to Window Vista Basic. it has button: Help, remove from list, ok
> >
> > so i look at the performance details event log and saw warning icons with
> > information about Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource
> > contention. reason: Graphic subsystem resources are over-utilized. Is Ati
> > Radeon 9550 256mb AGP 8x not enough?
> >
> > Althought i don't see any performance issue on my computer at all no slow
> > down. I also turn off the transparency and still giving me the warning in
> > the
> > advanced tools.
> >
> >
> >
>