Speed improvements under Vista:

1. Install 2 gig of memory if your not there already.

2. Install a larger, faster 7,200 rpm harddrive.

3. Clean out the buffers, and temp files.

4. and last but not least; Defrag the hard drive.

That's about all you can do that is cost effective on an existing PC.

Richard.

actually I have all of the above and still isn't great... Honestly, my dell
p3 866/40G/512M/16m video is almost as fast. my new HP is at bare bones,
nothing installed after new, my dell is maxed out with games, music... and
still seems slightly, and I mean slightly slower than my dual-core
1.8/160GB/2G ram/335M video. the graphics seemed much better on my Dell with
the exception of the hardware screen quality (my HP has an amazing screen
but some windows such as the one I'm typing in on Windows Mail) is much
better.

I think I would be much happier with this new laptop running XP pro. once I
finish downloading the HUGE!!! amount of updates from windows and HP, if
things don't improve.... XP goes back on and my Vista disk becomes my beer
coaster.

--

HP Pavilion V9000 Entertainment Laptop
Vista Home Premium/dual core 1.8/160GB/2GB ram/335MB Graphic/17" widescreen
.... and a whole wack of bells and whistles SWEET!!
"Richard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Speed improvements under Vista:
>
> 1. Install 2 gig of memory if your not there already.
>
> 2. Install a larger, faster 7,200 rpm harddrive.
>
> 3. Clean out the buffers, and temp files.
>
> 4. and last but not least; Defrag the hard drive.
>
> That's about all you can do that is cost effective on an existing PC.
>
> Richard.
>

You may have a memory issue with that large memory video card. Microsoft has
posted a supported fix for this that it is reported will become part of SP1.
The fix is not yet part of any automatic download. Don't worry about it
unless you intend to run some video games that are hogs for memory and
memory resources.

Richard.